Apple Sets October 28 for MacBook Pro Rebuild Running on Existing M5 Chips
The event is called "Pro and tell" and the redesign is said to drop the notch, add touch input and carry a higher price.
By Ivan Dvorak ·
Apple's next MacBook Pro goes on sale October 28 with a new chassis, a lighter frame and an OLED screen that accepts touch input. Pricing could start near $2,999, up from the current machine. Buyers should not expect it to run any faster than the version already in stores.
The company has scheduled an event it dubbed "Pro and tell" for October 28, where it is expected to show a laptop with a rebuilt industrial design, a body that is thinner and lighter, and a display that drops the notch at the top in favor of a Dynamic Island. Touch support on a MacBook Pro screen would be a first for the line. A C2 cellular modem has circulated as a possible addition, though that detail is less firmly sourced.
The processor stays put. Mark Gurman's reporting, cited by 9to5Mac, says the new machine will ship with the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips that arrived roughly eight months ago, so speed does not change from the models on shelves today.
The reason sits in Apple's chip roadmap. The company is said to skip M6 Pro and M6 Max entirely and push M7 Pro and M7 Max to 2027, which leaves the redesigned laptop assembling in the gap between generations.
Cost remains unsettled. A starting price around $2,999 would raise the entry point on hardware that performs no better than its predecessor. Apple could also swap in the current M5 Pro and M5 Max models at today's prices, though the memory shortage makes that route unlikely.
Apple has not confirmed any of the details. The October 28 event will show which of them hold and how the company sells a rebuilt laptop built on year-old silicon.
None of the reported specifications are confirmed by Apple ahead of the October 28 event.
