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Apple is making a statement this Black Friday. It launched the MacBook Pro M5 little more than a month ago, but it’s most definitely included in this year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales.
The brand-new, 14-inch MacBook Pro with 16GB of unified memory and a 512GB SSD is $250 off right now at Amazon — a steal on the cutting-edge of Apple’s most powerful chipset to date, at the lowest price yet.
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The MacBook Pro M5 is built for AI from the ground up, future-proofed for years of performance in one supercharged package. You’ve got a vivid Liquid Retina XDR display, with support for a brilliant 1,000 nits of full-screen brightness and 1,600 nits of peak brightness for supported HDR content.
The slim bezels around the display present an expressly sleek and modern form factor, particularly when paired with the 120Hz refresh rate for ultra-smooth navigation, scrolling, gaming, and entertainment.
When it comes to power, the M5 chip is Apple’s latest product in its Apple Silicon line, generating performance improvements over last year’s M4 chip via a combination of Neural Accelerators, higher memory bandwidth, and an all-new GPU architecture.
For professionals working with on-device AI, the M5 Pro has you covered with upgraded support for diffusion models, video enhancement, ray-tracing, and GPU-powered 3D rendering: up to 3.2 times higher frame rates while gaming compared to M1 (and 1.7 times faster than the M4).
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Following with this trend, you’ve also got more port connectivity. The M5 Pro has three Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) ports, an HDMI, and SDXC card reader, and scales up to 4TB of local storage for those who need it.
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The M5 Pro maneuvers like a dream with some serious multitasking performance across MacOS: Tahoe, the latest operating system. With support for the Phone app, Continuity with your iPhone, a new and improved Spotlight feature, and seamless video calling with FaceTime, it’s designed to be the working hub for your ecosys
In terms of battery life, the M5 MacBook Pro has some seriously resilient battery performance for a Pro laptop, lasting up to 24 hours on one charge under ideal conditions. For more intensive use, you can certainly expect a full workday on one charge.
If you want a little more local storage, you can opt for the configuration with a 1TB SSD, which is also on sale for $1,599. If you’re looking for even more power, opting for 24GB of RAM will bring the sale price up to $1,799, which is still $200 off the regular price.
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How I rated this deal
I gave this deal a 4/5 rating for the sheer fact that this laptop is barely over a month old, but already competing with a significant enough discount to warrant being mentioned.
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