Should I upgrade my MacBook Pro (14-inch, M5 Pro)?
under a year old · Runs macOS 27 Golden Gate, the current macOS
Quick look
- Price
- £2,4992Apple UK store
- Chip
- M5 Prochip
- CPU
- 15-coreCPU
- GPU
- 16-coreGPU
- Memory
- 24GBunified memory, base
- Storage
- 1TBstorage, base
- Display
- 14.2-inchdisplay
- Battery life
- Up to22 hrsvideo playback, claimed
- Released
- 11 March 20263ReleasedIn Apple Stores; pre-order from 4 March 2026.
- Security updates
- Not available4Security updates
Each figure is from the source marked1 unless it carries its own number.
Software support
- Security updates
- Not available4
- macOS
- macOS 27 Golden Gate, the current macOS
Nothing newer in the line yet
We hold no Apple UK store price for a newer Mac in the MacBook Pro M5 Pro (14-inch)’s line and tier. When we read one it appears here beside the MacBook Pro M5 Pro (14-inch).
Specifications
Body
- Dimensions
- 15.5 x 312.6 x 221.2 mm
- Weight
- 1.6 kg
- Colours
- Space Black, Silver
- Ports
- Three Thunderbolt 5 (USB-C) ports, HDMI port, SDXC card slot, MagSafe 3 port, 3.5mm headphone jack
- Thunderbolt ports
- 3
- Thunderbolt version
- Thunderbolt 5
- USB-A ports
- No USB-A ports.5
- HDMI
- HDMI port
- SD card slot
- Yes
- Headphone jack
- Yes
- MagSafe
- Yes
- Keyboard
- Backlit Magic Keyboard with Touch ID
- Touch ID
- Yes
- Touch Bar
- No Touch Bar.6
Display
- Display size
- 14.2 in
- Resolution
- 3024 x 1964
- Pixel density
- 254 ppi
- Display type
- Liquid Retina XDR display
- Brightness (SDR, outdoor)
- 1,000 nits7
- Peak brightness (HDR)
- 1,600 nits
- Refresh rate
- 120 Hz
- Wide colour (P3)
- Yes
- Nano-texture option
- Yes
Chip and memory
- Chip
- Apple M5 Pro chip
- Apple silicon
- Yes
- CPU cores
- 15
- Super cores
- 57
- Performance cores
- 107
- GPU cores
- 16
- Neural Engine cores
- 16
- Chip options
- M5 Pro with 15-core CPU and 16-core GPU, or M5 Pro with 18-core CPU and 20-core GPU7
- Memory (base)
- 24GB
- Memory (maximum)
- 64GB7
- Memory options
- 24GB, 48GB or 64GB (64GB with 20-core GPU)7
- Memory upgradeable by user
- No, as Apple documents8
- Memory bandwidth
- 307 GB/s
- Storage (base)
- 1TB
- Storage (maximum)
- 4TB7
- Storage options
- 1TB, 2TB or 4TB7
- Media engine
- Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAWvideo decode enginevideo encode engineProRes encode and decode engineAV1 decode
Battery and power
Connectivity
- Wi-Fi
- Wi‑Fi 7 (802.11be)
- Bluetooth
- 6
- Ethernet
- No Ethernet port.6
- External displays (base)
- 3
Camera and audio
- Camera
- 12MP Center Stage camera with support for Desk View
- Camera resolution
- 12 MP
- Speakers
- High-fidelity six-speaker sound system with force-cancelling woofers
- Microphones
- Studio-quality three-mic array with high signal-to-noise ratio and directional beamforming10
Platform
Benchmarks
The rest of the range at the price
Macs from other lines with a price read from Apple’s UK store, released within a year of the MacBook Pro M5 Pro (14-inch) and priced within a quarter of its £2,499 at Apple’s UK price as read on 22 September 2026, nearest price first. Each links to its side-by-side table.
- Mac Studio M5 Max vs MacBook Pro M5 Pro (14-inch)Mac Studio M5 Max is £2,499 at Apple’s UK price as read on 22 September 2026The Mac Studio M5 Max is a desktop; the MacBook Pro M5 Pro (14-inch) is a laptop. The MacBook Pro M5 Pro (14-inch) has a built-in 14.2-inch display, a camera and a battery, whereas the Mac Studio M5 Max has none of them.
- MacBook Pro M5 Pro (16-inch) vs MacBook Pro M5 Pro (14-inch)MacBook Pro M5 Pro (16-inch) is £2,999 at Apple’s UK price as read on 22 September 2026
Trade-in and used prices
More
Sources
Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Pro (14-inch, M5 Pro or M5 Max) - Tech Specs ·
↩Apple UK store — 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 Pro, 15-core CPU, 16-core GPU — From £2,499 ·
↩Apple Newsroom (UK) — Apple introduces MacBook Pro with all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max ·
↩Apple publishes no date for the end of updates, and this site does not guess one.
↩No USB-A ports.
↩No Touch Bar. No power adapter in the box. No Ethernet port.
↩Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Pro (14-inch, M5 Pro or M5 Max) - Tech Specs ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Pro: how to remove or install memory ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — Determine battery cycle count for Mac laptops ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Pro (14-inch, M5 Pro or M5 Max) - Tech Specs ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — macOS 27 Golden Gate is compatible with these computers ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — Identify your MacBook Pro model ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — Identify your MacBook Pro model ·
↩Geekbench Browser (Primate Labs) ·
↩Apple’s macOS 27 Golden Gate compatibility list names this Mac. endoflife.date says Apple usually provides security updates for the latest three macOS releases, but that this isn’t consistently applied; Apple publishes no end date.
↩CeX — Trade-in, Grade A, cash ·
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Not published by Apple
MacBook Pro (14-inch, M5 Pro). Apple doesn’t publish for this Mac: storage upgradeable by user, the macOS it shipped with. Pages checked: Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Pro (14-inch, M5 Pro or M5 Max) - Tech Specs; Apple Newsroom (UK) — Apple introduces MacBook Pro with all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max; Apple Support (UK) — Identify your MacBook Pro model, read 9 Oct 2026.
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