Apple might launch a brand new M5 model of the MacBook Professional as early as subsequent week, primarily based on suspiciously delayed supply estimates of some present fashions.
Posting on Twitter/X yesterday, the Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman famous that customized configurations of the baseline 14-inch MacBook Professional “are constrained until the tip of October.” Which means in case you order right now, your MacBook will not be delivered for a number of weeks, with some fashions on the U.S. retailer estimated to reach as late as October 28.
And it’s not simply affecting the U.S., as I found when checking my native storefront. At time of writing, the 14-inch M4 Professional with 512GB of storage is on the market on Apple’s U.Okay. retailer for supply tomorrow, however altering nearly any factor of the configuration–including a nano-texture show, upgrading to 24GB or 32GB of RAM, rising the storage, and even bundling a higher-wattage energy adapter–modifications the supply estimate to 23-28 October.
Typically talking, such widespread inventory shortages could be a powerful indicator that Apple has wrapped up manufacturing of a line in preparation for changing it. And on this case, there’s a lot extra proof to help an imminent M5 MacBook Professional launch.
On the finish of September, the FCC revealed paperwork for a number of unreleased Apple gadgets and one among these gave the impression to be an M5 MacBook Professional. Gurman himself, in the meantime, has not too long ago claimed that the M5 laptop computer is “nearing mass manufacturing.”
In response to Gurman’s tweet, Vadim Yuryev, host of the Max Tech YouTube channel, responded with a surprisingly assured prediction. “3 days of M5 chip product launches subsequent week beginning on Monday or Tuesday,” he wrote. “M5 MacBook Professional 14-inch mannequin ONLY, M5 iPad Professional, M5 Imaginative and prescient Professional.” That’s Monday/Tuesday the thirteenth/14th October.
Yuryev didn’t cite any sources, so it is perhaps greatest to take this rumor with a pinch of salt, however the timing actually traces up. And the burden of proof {that a} new MacBook Professional is coming at some point is turning into overwhelming. For all the newest information and rumors, take a look at our recurrently up to date M5 MacBook Professional superguide.
