Meet the new MacBook Pro: PROLED XDR Display, Touch and M5 Pro & M5 Max

The new MacBook Pro introduces PROLED XDR, a tandem OLED display designed to deliver a new level of visual quality for professional and everyday use. Combining innovations in display technology with advanced pixel control and precise factory calibration, it produces true-to-life colours, consistent brightness and remarkable detail across the screen.

With up to 2,000 nits of peak HDR and SDR brightness and an impressive 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, bright highlights stand out while deep shadows retain their detail. ProMotion technology also provides adaptive refresh rates from 10Hz to 120Hz, balancing power efficiency with smooth, responsive visuals when working with fast-moving content.

For creative professionals, support for both P3 and Adobe RGB colour spaces makes the display particularly well suited to photography, graphic design, video editing and colour grading. With more than 80% Rec. 2020 coverage for HDR workflows, PROLED XDR offers the colour range and accuracy needed for demanding projects. An advanced anti-reflective coating helps maintain clarity in bright environments, while an optional nano-texture finish further reduces glare and reflections. Together, these features make the new MacBook Pro a powerful portable display for work where colour, clarity and precision matter.

For the first time, MacBook Pro introduces Touch, giving users a more direct and intuitive way to interact with their content. Designed specifically for Mac, the built-in touch sensor sits within the display panel to reduce latency and make interactions feel responsive and natural. From scrolling through webpages and zooming into photos to moving slides between presentations and arranging windows, familiar tasks become simple gestures, working alongside the keyboard shortcuts and trackpad controls Mac users already know.

Touch also opens up new possibilities for creative and professional workflows. Designers can draw directly across the display, musicians can play software instruments onscreen, and developers can test how their iOS and iPadOS apps respond to touch without leaving their Mac. A redesigned hinge provides added stability during use, while automatic video stabilisation helps keep the camera feed smooth during video calls.

Apple's own apps are optimised for Touch, while macOS automatically translates touches into clicks to support many existing apps. Developers can also use updated system gesture APIs to build experiences specifically for touch interaction. A growing range of third-party tools will take advantage of the feature, including productivity apps such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Notion and Canva; creative software such as Adobe Lightroom and DaVinci Resolve; 3D tools including Blender, Cinema 4D and Shapr3D; and music apps such as djay Pro. By bringing touch interaction to the MacBook Pro display, Apple is offering professionals another way to work with the tools they rely on every day.

For the first time, Dynamic Island comes to Mac, bringing Spotlight, Live Activities and Siri AI together in one convenient, interactive space. Much like on iPhone, it gives you quick access to important information and everyday tasks without interrupting what you're doing. You can search your Mac, ask Siri AI a question, answer a phone call or control your music, all from within easy reach.

Live Activities also bring timely updates directly to Dynamic Island, helping you stay up to date at a glance. With simple touch interactions, you can accept an AirDrop request, pause a song or respond to notifications as they appear. It offers a more immediate way to access useful information and manage everyday tasks while keeping your workflow moving.

The new MacBook Pro is thinner and lighter than before, making it easier to take powerful performance wherever work takes you. The 14-inch model now weighs just 3 pounds, half a pound less than its predecessor, while the 16-inch model weighs 4 pounds — a reduction of 0.7 pounds. Both benefit from a slimmer design made possible by the more efficient tandem OLED display technology, with the 14-inch model nearly half a millimetre thinner and the 16-inch model almost a millimetre thinner.

Despite the reduced dimensions, the redesigned MacBook Pro retains the sustained performance of Apple's M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, thanks to a completely reworked thermal architecture. This system also directs warm air away from the display, helping maintain performance during demanding tasks. Slimmer display borders make better use of the available space, with the 14-inch model featuring a 14.2-inch screen and the 16-inch model offering a 16.3-inch display. The result is a more portable design that brings together a larger viewing experience, powerful performance and greater convenience on the move.

The new MacBook Pro features Apple's M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, designed to deliver powerful CPU performance and faster unified memory for demanding professional tasks. From software development and scientific research to creative production, both chips help tackle intensive workloads, including compiling code, running AI tasks, sequencing DNA and editing multiple streams of 8K ProRes video.

M5 Pro is built for professionals who need high performance across complex projects, while M5 Max takes things further for those working with advanced visual effects, 3D animation, AI development and film scoring. Its capabilities allow professionals to run large language models (LLMs) with hundreds of billions of parameters entirely on-device, opening up new possibilities for AI-powered workflows without relying on cloud processing.

Both chips also bring significant graphics capabilities, with a powerful Neural Accelerator built into each GPU core to speed up AI workloads, alongside enhanced shader cores and a third-generation ray-tracing engine. These improvements support more realistic lighting and faster rendering for demanding 3D projects. Dynamic Caching further optimises on-chip memory to improve GPU utilisation, helping applications such as Blender and Unreal Engine run demanding graphics workloads more efficiently, while also benefiting AAA gaming.

The new MacBook Pro features an enhanced six-speaker audio system designed to deliver richer, clearer and more immersive sound. An all-new woofer design provides 50% deeper bass, while redesigned tweeters help direct sound for improved clarity and detail. With Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos support, music and films feel more immersive, creating a more engaging listening experience whether you're working, relaxing or enjoying your favourite content.

Studio-quality microphones ensure your voice sounds clear during calls, recordings and voice commands. For added flexibility, Apple has also introduced dedicated audio tuning for closed-lid use, maintaining impressive sound quality when the MacBook Pro is connected to an external display. Whether you're working at your desk or on the move, the enhanced audio system is designed to deliver a premium listening and communication experience.

The new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR reflects Apple's ongoing commitment to reducing its environmental impact as it works towards carbon neutrality across its entire footprint by 2030. It contains 55% recycled material overall, including 100% recycled aluminium in the enclosure, recycled cobalt in the battery and, for the first time in an Apple product, 100% recycled tantalum in multiple capacitors.

Sustainability also extends to how the MacBook Pro is manufactured, with 45% renewable electricity used across its supply chain, including wind and solar power. Designed for durability and repairability, it also meets Apple's standards for energy efficiency and safer chemical materials. Even the packaging has been considered, with paper packaging made entirely from fibre and designed to be recycled. Together, these measures form part of Apple's wider effort to reduce the environmental impact of its products throughout their lifecycle.