The next MacBook Pro release should bring M5 power to Apple’s flagship later in 2025. Here’s what’s been rumored, and what’s going to take longer to arrive.
The next MacBook Pro release should bring M5 power to Apple’s flagship later in 2025. Here’s what’s been rumored, and what’s going to take longer to arrive.
Apple last updated the MacBook Pro lineup in November 2024, introducing grades to the lineup in the form of the M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max. With the previous M3 generation update in November 2023, it seems that Apple is fine with an annual release update for its mobile workstation.
Just like other products in the Apple catalog, there have been rumors about what could be coming to the MacBook Pro range. However, some are going to be arriving much sooner than other forecasted alterations.
Here’s what the rumor mill has declared about the MacBook Pro lineup, and what you should – and shouldn’t – expect from the next release.
MacBook Pro could get an early M5 upgrade
In 2023, the MacBook Pro was among the first products to get M3, alongside the iMac. However, for the M4 generation, the iPad Pro unexpectedly was the first product on the roster to use the chip generation.
It took another six months before any Mac models gained M4, and the MacBook Pro was among the group.
For the M5 series of Apple Silicon, it seems there’s a good chance that Apple will return to making sure Macs get an early upgrade in the generation, instead of it being an iPad Pro-only feature for a prolonged period of time.
According to a February report from Bloomberg, Apple will start releasing Macs using M5 chips in the fall of 2025. This claim seems to check out, bearing in mind the last two generations arrived in that timeframe.
More importantly for Mac users who felt stiffed by the iPad Pro getting the M5 first, Mark Gurman adds that the iPad Pro with M5 is expected to land sometime in late 2025 or early 2026. This means we could see the new MacBook Pro with M5 at around the same time as the iPad Pro update, or potentially without an M5 iPad Pro until months later.
This is the only real notable claim that has been made about the specifications of the 2025 MacBook Pro refresh so far. Other specifications for that particular model have yet to be discussed, with the very likely possibility that it ends up being a spec-bump update.
