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Apple’s New MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Have New Chips, More Storage, and Higher Prices

Luke Larsen

created: March 3, 2026, 2:45 p.m. | updated: March 3, 2026, 7:31 p.m.

Alongside its price-friendly iPhone 17e and M4 iPad Air from Monday, Apple just announced a few updates to the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and its rarely refreshed desktop display line. It's a fairly modest upgrade, but it brings it up to speed with Apple's latest processor that debuted in the MacBook Pro last fall. More interestingly, Apple is expanding the M5 chip series with the M5 Pro and M5 Max, now available in the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro. The M5 Pro can scale up to 20 GPU cores, while the M5 Max extends up to 40 GPU cores. Thanks to the four additional CPU cores, Apple says the M5 Pro gets 30 percent better multithreaded CPU performance over the M4 Pro.

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