Macbook Pro M5 Pro And M5 Max Coming In February!! Should You Buy It??

What up, guys? Welcome back to the

channel. It's your guy, Something. Hit

the keys. Uh, in today's video, I kind

of want to talk about Apple and the new

M5 MacBooks. It looks like the MacBook

M5 Pro and Max chips are coming to the

MacBook Pro here in February. Um, so

what I want to do in today's video is I

kind of want to talk about the new

MacBooks. I want to talk about who the

MacBooks are for and if you necessarily

need it. I know us as musicians, we like

to grab everything that is new that is

coming out, but you might not need this

new M5 MacBook, and I'll tell you why.

So, let's go ahead and take a look here

at this story. Um, Apple MacBook Pro M5

Pro and Max coming February 2026. Um, so

this is reported by Gear News. I

actually have another story. It's

reported by two bunch of people

reporting the same thing. Um, but let's

go ahead and take a look here kind of at

the story. So, it says the imminent

Apple update has brought the MacBook Pro

M5 back into sharp focus for many music

producers and media creators. According

to several reports, new MacBook Pro

models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips will

be released alongside the Mac OS 26.3

update in February 2026. Unfortunately,

an exact date has not yet been

confirmed. So, what I've been reading

from everything is that they want to

launch the new uh M5 Pro and M5 Max

chips at the exact same time that they

dropped the new OS. Um, I think that

they're having a couple of issues with

the OS currently. Um, so they're saying

that ideally they want to put this out

in February, but March at the latest.

So, if there's issues obviously with

this update and stuff like that, then

they're not going to be able to drop the

M5 until that update comes out. So,

let's go ahead and read a little bit

more about this. According to Mark

German, the launch is expected to occur

between February and March. Mac OS 26.3

is currently in the beta cycle, but an

official release is anticipated in the

first half of February. If the software

schedule is delayed, the release of the

MacBook Pro 5 um could be also delayed.

Several sources site the same time

frame, which supports the rumor at least

somewhat. In terms of content, the

MacBook Pro M5 appears to be more of a

performance update than a design change.

The focus is on the new chips. While the

case and basic concept will likely

remain the same. For studio users, the

most important factor is how many

virtual instruments, effects, and large

projects the computer can run

simultaneously without overheating. Uh

this is especially important when

elaborate orchestra libraries, large

sample sets, and complex mixing sessions

because of additional CPU power directly

impacts the workflow. So, it says here

um that it's more about performance than

appearance. I do wonder though at this

point, how much greater is the M5 than

the M4? Or how much greater is the M5

versus the M3? We'll talk about that a

little bit more here in the video. But

really, I mean, how are you only going

to focus on performance when the

performance of the M4 is phenomenal? So,

a major design and feature set changes

are not expected until a future model

with a new touch display and modified

design, including an integrated eSIM,

hits the market. For now, however, the

focus is on the performance gains

offered by the new chip generation.

Anyone considering an upgrade who works

extensively with audio, video, or sound

design will likely be interested in the

MacBook Pro M5. It remains to be seen

whether Apple will link the new devices

directly to the Mac OS 26.3 cycle or

wait for the 26.3.1,

but we'll keep you up to date. I read

another article here too that basically

says some of the same stuff um that it's

just planned to come out during the 23

26.3 release cycle of the new OS. Um so

it looks like it should be coming out

here, you know, anytime soon. So, here's

the part of the video where we kind of

need to talk about, do you need an M5

MacBook? Because I know a lot of times

with everything that comes out new,

everybody wants to buy everything new

all the time, right? So, um I I honestly

say think to yourself, do you need all

the features in the new M5 MacBook or is

your M4, your M2, your M1 getting you by

still? I say all this because I have a

M1 MacBook. I do all kinds of

production. I edit videos. Um I have

complex sessions and stuff in uh my FL

Studio. Um and it just runs. It just

runs. It just works right. I will admit

I can't stream and run heavy projects

off of one computer with my MacBook Air,

but it's a MacBook Air and it's an M1.

And so if you just if you get a M2 Pro

or even a M1 Pro, you can still run a

stream and complex FL Studio sessions

off your computer. So that's just

something to think about as we're

getting into the the new cycle of

computers, right? Because they're always

going to want to sell you. It doesn't

matter what it is. It's whether it's an

upgrade on a car, whether it's an

upgrade on a plugin, whether it's an

upgrade on a phone. The difference

generally if it's an update from year to

year isn't going to be significant

enough for you to trade in last year's

model for this year's model. So I

recently just got an iPhone 17 Pro,

right? But before that, I had a Samsung

21 Galaxy SE, right? I didn't get the

best Galaxy. I got one that was good

enough because I didn't need all the

features in the the full Galaxy, right?

I would have kept this phone, but the

internet's broke on this phone. um it

doesn't work well with my MacBook and

just a few other things about this. It

just I I needed a new camera uh so I

could do better top- down views. So, I

ultimately got the iPhone Pro. Now, I

would not have got the iPhone Pro if in

the regular iPhone 17 you can do ProRes

recording. So, ProRes recording I'm

going to start doing videos and other

kind of stuff like music videos. So to

have ProRes recording on my my Sony on

this phone, it allows me to shoot

different angles at the same time and

easily blend them up. So that's the only

reason I upgraded to the full version. I

say all of that to say this. Do you need

the full version of the MacBook Pro or

what you have good enough? So let's take

a look here at kind of some of the

pricing.

So, we see this obviously isn't going to

be the exact price for, you know, the

Pro with the M5 Pro and Max chips. You

can get this right now with the standard

um M5 chip. And so, right now, this

computer is going to be $15.99 with the

standard M5 chip, right? So, it's

$1,600. With this, you're only going to

get 256 GB of uh storage, so on and so

forth. If you upgrade to the M4 chip, it

is $2,000. And if you upgrade to the M4

Max chip, it's $31.99.

So I I need you guys to think about what

you're using this for because I did a

video um a ways back. All right, so as

you see in this video, I used a bunch of

CPU intensive things with a bunch of CPU

inensive effects on them too as well. So

we got Analog Labs, Pigments,

Omnosphere, Omnosphere, Analog Labs,

Pigments. So we've got those are all

very CPU intensive plugins. Then I have

vocals going. Um, on the vocals I have

nectar. And then I have ozone on a

master track too as well. And then you

see here I'm screen recording as well.

And you see that it's 57% CPU usage,

which is heavy. But with the plugins I'm

using, this is before all of them were

optimized, too. So this is when Pigments

wasn't optimized. This video was four

years old, right? And so if you can run

all of this stuff off of a M1 Mac, do

you necessarily need to go out and spend

$3,100 on a M5 Max Pro or Ultra? You get

what you get what I'm saying now? So

like let's look here. You've got all

kinds of refurbished computers that you

can get. Um so like right here we're

looking in Sorry, these aren't the

refurbished. These are just the regular

price. So you can get a MacBook Air,

which probably has just the regular M5

chip in it for $9.99. the Pro that has

the M5 chip in it for $15.99. Right? But

let's go look here at some of these

refurbished units. Right? So, you can

get an openboxed

um MacBook Air. Granted, it's a M1 for

$389,

fam. $389.

So, for most people who are musicians,

this is going to get the job done for

you, right? It's what I'm using and I'm

editing videos and 4K, all kinds of

stuff, right? um that'll get the job

done for you. They've got other ones

here you see for, you know, $5.99 or

whatever the case is. Um you can come

over here and you can get refurbished M2

MacBooks for $799. You know what I'm

saying? For $799.

Um and this is going to get the job done

for you, too. You can come over here and

get all kinds of different refurbished

computers. So, you can get a refurbished

M4 um MacBook for 9 or for $8.49. You

know, there's all kinds of deals on

these computers that you guys should

should really check out before you dive

right into an M5 MacBook Pro. That's

just my opinion. As somebody who has a

MacBook, I absolutely love my MacBook. I

have a MacBook. I have a PC. Uh my

MacBook's my favorite computer. I love

it. I do want to upgrade at some point

to like I'm probably going to get like a

MacBook or I'm probably going to get a

Mac Mini or something like that. uh just

so I have a stable computer here all the

time and it'll help me stream and stuff

better like that. And then I I didn't

even mention you can get into the world

of the Mac the Mac minis and you can get

like a M5 Mac Mini

for like 5.99 600 bucks. Um you just

have to get a screen and everything

else.

But when you're looking at buying one of

these right here, I mean $599 for an M4

chip, you know? I mean, you can't beat

that. you know, you add a little bit of

you fix up your memory or whatever it is

that you want. Bam. You know, I mean, I

think 16 gigabytes would be fine with

this M1 MacBook chip. Um, 48 gigabytes

or whatever. You just keep what I have

and then I would probably add 512. I'd

spend $799 on this and then I would add

um just external external storage and

that's going to get you to $799 for this

thing right here. you know, 66 bucks a

month. So, there's plenty of different

options out here. I'm not trying to hate

on Apple. I do like Apple. Um, I mean, I

like PC and Android, too. I'm not one of

those people who is it's Apple or

nothing, or it's PC or nothing, or it's

Android or nothing. I appreciate good

technology when it comes out. I

appreciate Apple and everything that

they're doing, but the fuss that we make

every single year when a new Apple comes

out, new MacBook comes out, new phone

comes out, it's just too much, y'all.

Because they're not doing enough. It's

not like synthesizers, right? So like

let's say Sequential drops a new

synthesizer. It's not going to be the

Take 5.2. It's going to be a completely

different synthesizer. The same with

like Arttoria, you know, unless they're

updating their their their keyboards.

They're dropping new synthesizers, you

know? It it's just I feel like sometimes

we get caught up in this hype and we

don't always need to go out and spend

all of our coins on the newest stuff

when what we have is just doing the job

well. So, uh, make sure if you guys do

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I'll catch you in the next one. Peace.

[groaning]

I fumbled the peace sign at the end.

Only the real ones who watch till the

end can laugh at me like, haha.

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