What reviewers said about the MacBook Pro (16-inch, M5 Pro)

What reviewers raise

A count of the reviews we quote on this page that have a quote on each topic, from the findings shown below. A review may say more on a topic than we quote, so it counts what is quoted here, not everything each review covers, and it says how often a topic is quoted, not what was said about it. Battery, performance and heat are counted over the 1 review of this exact model.

• 1 of 1 exact-model review we quote mentions battery life

Where reviewers and Apple differ

A reviewer’s own figure beside Apple’s claim, each as its author printed it. Where the tests are of the same kind (web browsing, or the movie playback or streaming test Apple names, and only where the reviewer says so) that is said; where they are not, the two are shown and not compared. A video loop that the reviewer does not describe as Apple’s test, or ran from a stored or downloaded file, is shown, not compared. Figures are never ranked, subtracted or pooled across methods.

• Same kind of test, run under different conditions

  Apple’s claim

  17 h, Wireless web. Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Pro (16-inch, M5 Pro or M5 Max) - Tech Specs, read 15 September 2026

  Tom's Guide’s measurement

  21 hours and 10 minutes, from “continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi with the laptop’s display set to 150 nits of brightness”. Tom's Guide

The reviews

Newest first, in the order of the date each article prints (which may be an update date, not a first-publication date). Each quote links to its article; the date is the one the article prints, labelled as the article labels it. “Published” and “Updated” appear only where the article prints that word beside the date; “Dated” means the article prints that date with no label, so the date itself does not say whether it is the first publication or an update. A later update that an article mentions only in an editor’s note is not used as its date.