Apple - MacBook Pro 16-inch Laptop - M5 Pro chip with 18-core CPU and 20-core GPU - 48GB Memory - 1TB SSD - Space Black

Excellent laptop. The M5 Pro with 48GB of memory is incredibly fast and handles heavy multitasking, coding, and demanding applications without slowing down. The 16-inch display is beautiful, battery life is excellent, and the laptop stays surprisingly quiet even under heavier workloads. It is a little heavy, but that’s expected for a 16-inch machine this powerful. Overall, I’m very happy with the purchase and would definitely recommend it.

The M5 Pro with 24GB is plenty for my workflow. Fast, silent under load, and the battery easily gets me through a full day. Snappy performance, gorgeous display, and excellent build quality. The 24GB M5 Pro hits a great balance of power and price. Big jump from my older Mac. The M5 Pro handles heavy multitasking without breaking a sweat , and the battery life is fantastic.

I decided to upgrade from my 2020 MacBook Pro 13-inch intel chip laptop – because I found it was getting really slow. And I have to say – the change is huge! I love the larger screen on the 16-inch MacBook Pro and the return of the SD card slot. But – most of all – it’s lightning fast and the battery lasts for 17+ hours! (My old laptop would lose half its battery in 2 hours). It’s amazing. The only negative – is the size & weight of the new laptop. It’s clunky & heavy – it reminds me of my old 2011 MacBook Pro, which had a ton of ports, DVD player, SD card slot, etc. (It still works, by the way – which is a testament to Apple products). Also annoying is the constant reminders that pop up – telling me that many Intel-based apps (TurboTax, Spotify, VLC player, etc) won’t work in future OS updates on M5 Pro chip laptops. Not sure why Apple decided to stop allowing Rosetta to convert the apps to Apple Silicon. So, I’ve had to hunt around to see if the makers of those apps have made any updates, which is time-consuming & annoying. But, overall, I love the performance of my new laptop. Hope it continues performing well.

I’ve been using the MacBook Pro 16-inch for a while now, and it’s easily one of the best laptops I’ve owned. The display is incredibly sharp and vibrant, the battery lasts all day, and the performance is fast enough to handle everything from everyday tasks to video editing. The keyboard feels great, and the speakers are surprisingly powerful for a laptop. It’s definitely expensive, but if you need a reliable, high-performance machine, it’s worth the investment. Only thing that would make me return is the ultra.

Windows user since Windows on DOS days, never tried anything Apple made. Not for a minute, even through college when studying IT and cyber security. I became so very sick and tired of all the windows issues, and the ads... Oh the ads! And McAffee and all the things that break your session. I just decided on a whim to try a MacBook, and I got two - the air 24gb and the pro 48gb. The Air is ridiculous, it's all the laptop I would need- with a beautiful display and decent speakers (probably better than all but 1 or 2 Windows machines). But I have a new bad habit because MacOS is so much more stable than Windows- I leave it on for well over a week without rebooting. So I have maybe 200 browser tabs, 8-12 300+ page PDF's to reference, all the organization apps like Notion, notes, 5 finder windows, 4 different calendar accounts.... You get the idea. I would run out of memory on the 24gb by Tuesday morning, and with the 48gb MacBoook, I don't have to close anything. Now this is me being bad at using a computer, but the MacBook doesn't care. It just... Flies. Never studders, never hesitates, everything is seemless and fast. I bet in 2 months of 8-10 hour days and travelling all over, only a small handful of times has it even shown any sign of imperfection- and I'm on the public beta OS. These used to be expensive compared to a windows laptop, but depending on how you squint your eyes, that may not be the case anymore. In fact the G16 32gb 5080 I also tried, and this is better in every way ecxcept FPS on AAA games, was something like $1400 more. 5/5, would recommend. One more thing - windows laptops are always a tool. This is somehow something a little different. Just as capable, but (I can't believe I'm gonna say this about a laptop) somehow more personal.