More ports please🙏

For those who have the m5 pro chips in the macs what type of work do you do with it?

Perhaps useful for anyone trying to pick a color, some photos of my silver vs my fiancés space black m5 pro chips. Both are beautiful!!! and I was torn on what to pick for a few weeks, hence this post lol, so hopefully this can be a help for someone.

Thoughts: the space blacks finger prints are not nearly as bad as people say. Silver shows fingerprints and dust too, but yeah it blends in more. The space black pulls darker in day to day use than it looked in the store to us. Silver seemed very bright in store, and while it's still bright it's a bit more toned down under normal lighting and usage day to day.

We both loved our older space grays, it's the superior color no question. I went with silver because I'm afraid of scratches so it was the safer choice for me, and it feels more like the traditional Mac's I've been used to all these years. Space black seems durable, but his is only 1.5 weeks old, so hard to tell as far as longevity yet. I do think it'll hold up fine.

a long time coming! The keyboard is so good I haven't typed this fast in my life

I haven’t had a laptop for a while and my last Mac was an iMac i5. I feel very grateful.

finally bought my first personal macbook. went with the macbook pro m5, 24gb ram, 1tb ssd. this thing is a beast!!!
i’ve been using a macbook pro at work for the last 3-4 years, and honestly, i just can’t see myself switching back to anything else at this point.
was initially planning to get the macbook air, but a friend suggested going with the pro since i spend a lot of time coding and building stuff. especially with multiple coding agents running alongside my usual dev setup.

Debating over 14inch 24gb 15core 1TB or 14 inch 48gb 18core 1TB MacBook pros M5 pro. Not too crazy about the new Oled Mac’s coming out since they will be expensive. Not going over my budget. Any recommendations.

This my MBP early 2015 model. Which higher upgrade will be suitable without much problems. Any suggestions from you guys will be appreciated.

I bought my MacBook Pro in March 2024 with Apple care+

Since July 2025, I’ve experienced significantly weak Wi-Fi TX signal strength (-73dbm)while RX works fine. My router is ASUS BE88U

AirPlay repeatedly cuts out and unusable. Ping tests show significant packet loss and high latency.

While my iPhone, iPad, and HP laptop work normally in the same location.

I opened an Apple Support case in December 2025. It is now October 2026, and approximately 10 months later, the issue remains unresolved.

Online support insists this is a software issue. When I ask how hardware causes were excluded, I’m told their engineering team is highly professional and I should keep waiting. They have provided no workable solution or resolution timeframe.

At the Genius Bar, the checks confirmed that the Wi-Fi hardware was detected, but no performance or stability testing was performed. I was told they could not authorize opening the device for further hardware inspection.

Apple’s Government Relations team repeatedly stated that software issues must follow Technical Support’s conclusions and hardware issues must follow the store’s diagnostic results. I explained that Technical Support had already had ten months without providing a solution, while the store had not investigated the performance problem. Regardless of the facts or explanations I presented, they kept repeating the same statement like a broken record. They did not address this gap, arrange further testing, or offer a concrete way forward. The handling was extremely dismissive.

It has been 10 months, service delayed is service denied, this is certainly a service denial under Apple care+. Apple service even refuse to perform a WiFi performance test

I won’t buy Apple care again

Need to update my 2010 MacBook Air. I don’t code or anything yet, but I do use AI chat bots on the cloud quite regularly. Any advice on these two chips or advice if I can get the M4 Pro with some more RAM over 16 GB? Any advice is appreciated.

I bought a MacBook Pro 14" a few months ago. Is this normal for my battery capacity go down this fast?

After years of relying on the familiar Windows ecosystem, I finally made the leap and switched to the Mac. Leaving behind the muscle memory of Windows laptops was a massive shift, but upgrading to the sheer power of Macbook completely redefines my daily workflow.

I have found good deal on FB for macbook m4 pro 24GB/1TB

Or should I wait for M5 prices to go down and get the non-oled M5 pro when the OLED refresh comes out ?

I got new macbook pro m5 pro 24 gb/1tb, I am a first time apple user, I do video editing ( da vinci resolve) and for hobby coding(web dev) tell me how to get most out of my mac,, what sleeve i need what bag can you recommend, hatd sheel / case you recommend, screen protector or not, lamination or not ( skins) , have an android ( samsung flagship) how to get better out of it , software and things to make it easy along the journey and I hope I get every penny of of this crazy machine i spent my saving's on , I really wanted a bike but my previous machine got was at it's limit , so i had to buy a new machine that was my decision of new mac, so please whoever now about which field like hardware like mouse or keyboard or accessories , whoever knows about software , tips and tricks, whoever know about workflows and editing and all, tell me each and everything you can help me do with this lovely piece of tech in my hand right now , I will read and reply and ask questions every comment and your messages and advice, thank you

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I was planning to buy Macbook,i was trying to trade in with my laptop

My laptop specs:LOQ i5 13th gen 13450hx RTX 4050(6gb), 16/512,bought on DEC 2025,still have more than 2 years warranty till 2028

my need:i need to trade in a Macbook air or Macbook pro, if air m3,m4,m5 is needed,i need Atleast 16/512 Bcas i need for my coding, multitasking

if it is pro,m1,m2 or latest is needed, if anybody planning to buy LOQ, this will be helpful for both

thank you

https://youtu.be/aV81SqB6HQg?

I don’t want to start any hate towards any manufacturer.

Linus benchmarked the MacBook Pro 14” M5 Pro 15 core version with 24gb ram against the brand new Nvidia RTX Spark laptops with 64/128gb ram.

For some benchmarks like the Llama bench prompt processing, the M5 Pro gets beaten quite easily.

After watching the entire video, the MacBook is on par with a laptop that costs twice to almost 3x as much.

I still don’t understand why they didn’t use the m5 max with 48gb ram, this would be a much better comparison.

If I’m honest I expected much more from Nvidia.

The entire hype turned out to be a straight flop imo. When Apple went from the m4 to the M5, ai performance was increased massively, thanks to the neural accelerators. Apple announced it with a simple post on Twitter.

What are y’all opinions on this, correct me if I’m wrong.

a few years back i accidentally cracked the bottom part of my macbooks screen while closing it, it’s been fine ever since until recently i accidentally dropped an object directly onto the crack which caused vertical lines to appear. since then i’ve noticed it’s been acting strangely and now the screen has randomly gone black and it seems to be on but the screen still displays back. i’m not sure what to do or how to fix it, is there any way i can try and resolve this??

I have a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro chip, and it suddenly stopped turning on.

It was working normally the night before. I closed the lid and left it unplugged overnight. The next day, it wouldn't turn on. At one point, the Apple logo appeared briefly on its own, but eventually the screen went completely black and the Mac became unresponsive.

Symptoms:

• The MacBook won't start normally.
• The MagSafe indicator initially showed no light and later started blinking.
• The battery appears to charge while the MacBook is in DFU mode.
• My M1 Mac mini detects the MacBook in DFU mode.

What I've tried:

1. Tried charging through MagSafe and USB-C.
2. Used the leftmost USB-C port on the left side for DFU.
3. Tried Apple's Finder Revive procedure from my M1 Mac mini.
4. Updated the Mac mini and tried again.
5. Tried Apple Configurator with a manually downloaded macOS 27.0.1.2 IPSW.

Finder's Revive either fails immediately or fails after waiting. Apple Configurator progresses to “Step 2 of 2: Installing the system,” but eventually fails with:

“Gave up waiting for the device to transition from DFU state to recovery state.”

I'm currently running macOS 27.0.1 (Golden Gate) on the MacBook. I don't know for certain whether the OS update caused this, but I'm wondering if it could be related.

I'm trying to understand whether this is a firmware/bootloader issue or a hardware fault. The fact that DFU works and the battery appears to charge makes me wonder whether there's still a way to recover it without replacing the logic board.

I may have important files that aren't backed up, so I do not want to use Restore if it will erase the data. I've booked an appointment at an official Apple Store, but I'd like to explore any reasonable troubleshooting options first.

Questions:

• Has anyone with an M4 or M4 Pro MacBook experienced this exact DFU-to-recovery transition error?
• Has anyone fixed it using a different IPSW, Apple Configurator, or another non-erasing method?
• Does this error commonly indicate a logic-board or power-management fault?
• Is there anything else worth trying before authorizing a repair?

I'd appreciate reports from people who've experienced this exact issue, especially if they managed to recover the Mac without erasing their data.

P.S. Its out of warranty and am unemployed

Hi all, so I’m looking at picking up a MacBook Pro M5 pro but I’m really struggling to decide on a size. I’m going to be using it for video editing, 4K primarily. I really like the portability of the 14” but I’ve seen a lot of people say it feels too cramped. Is this really going to be a problem and should I spend the extra and get the 16”, then lose the portability? Or should I get a 14” and just get an external monitor for when I’m using it at home?

Thanks in advance!

This is a 5 month old laptop and I take care of it a lot, I don’t use the keyboard often (I use a wireless keyboard and trackpad) but when I do, I almost always clean it after every use, so I don’t leave it with fingerprints.