From WIRED · Luke Larsen · · 1m 20s
Skip the M6 MacBook Pro, buy the M5 instead
Apple's new M6 MacBook Pro costs $200 more than the M5 for gains you won't notice in daily work.
In brief
Apple's new M6 MacBook Pro costs $200 more than the M5 for gains you won't notice in daily work. Apple's M6 MacBook Pro offers minimal performance gains over the cheaper M5 model, making the older laptop the better buy right now. Originally reported by WIRED.
Apple releases M6 MacBook Pro
Last month, Apple refreshed the fourteen-inch MacBook Pro with the latest M six chip. It has great battery life and a bright mini-LED screen, but you probably shouldn't buy it right now.
M5 costs $200 less for identical specs
The M five model came out in late twenty twenty-five with identical laptop specs except for the chip. You can currently get the M five for two hundred dollars less on Amazon and Walmart.
M6 gains are small and narrow
The M six has two additional CPU and GPU cores, one of the smaller generation-over-generation Apple Silicon performance bumps in the past six years.
“I just don't think the difference will be very noticeable between the two models.”
Consider the fifteen-inch MacBook Air instead
The fifteen-inch MacBook Air M five is also on sale. The model with sixteen gigabytes of memory and a terabyte of storage is at its lowest price since June: one thousand five hundred forty-nine dollars…
M5 MacBook Pro offers better value
Whether you choose the thinner fifteen-inch MacBook Air M five or the fourteen-inch MacBook Pro M five with its better screen, you have great deals.
The main idea
Apple's M6 MacBook Pro offers minimal performance gains over the cheaper M5 model, making the older laptop the better buy right now.
