New MacBook Pro, Studio Displays, and more
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Apple launches new MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips
- Apple announces M5 MacBook Air with 2x storage, $1099 starting price
- Apple touts Fusion Architecture for M5 Pro and M5 Max chips with 'super cores'
- Apple announces Studio Display XDR with 120Hz refresh rate, mini-LED, more
- Apple launches new generation of Studio Display
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Tuesday, March 3rd, 26. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm your host, Chance Miller. |
| 0:09.4 | We are sponsored this week by Ben Q. |
| 0:13.1 | Apple is continuing its week of announcements today with a handful of new products related to the Mac. |
| 0:19.2 | First, the company has introduced the M5 version of the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air. |
| 0:26.3 | While the starting price has increased by $100, it now comes with double the starting storage, |
| 0:32.0 | faster SSD speeds, and higher top-end storage. |
| 0:36.4 | The M-4 MacBook Air started at $9.99, and the new M5 model starts at 1099. |
| 0:42.7 | But in line with that, Apple has doubled the base storage from 256 gigabytes to 512. |
| 0:49.9 | The M4 MacBook Air was configurable with up to 2 terabytes of storage, |
| 0:54.8 | while the new M5 MacBook Air can now go all the way up to 4 terabytes. |
| 0:59.8 | RAM configurations remain the same at 16, 24, and 32 gigabytes. |
| 1:05.7 | The move from M4 to M5 also means you now get Wi-Fi 7 instead of Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 6 instead of Bluetooth 5.3. |
| 1:16.3 | It's available in 13- and 15-inch screen sizes in the same four colors as before, sky blue, midnight, starlight, and silver. |
| 1:25.0 | The new MacBook Air will be available to pre-order starting on Wednesday, March 4th at 6.15 a.m. |
| 1:31.0 | Pacific time and we'll reach customers a week later on Wednesday, March 11th. |
| 1:36.4 | Next up, Apple has launched the M5 Pro and M5M6 versions of the MacBook Pro. |
| 1:42.8 | These new chips make the MacBook Pro the most powerful laptop Apple |
| 1:46.5 | sells. Each chip features an up to 18 core CPU with 12 performance cores and six of what |
| 1:54.1 | Apple is calling supercores. Apple says these are the fastest CPU cores in the world. |
| 2:05.4 | In total, Apple says that the combination of the performance cores and supercores lead to an up to 30% boost in overall performance. |
| 2:10.1 | The GPU is a huge part of the story, too, thanks to the addition of neural accelerators in each core. |
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