Overview
- Apple has released 14‑ and 16‑inch MacBook Pro models with a PROLED XDR tandem OLED display, an optional touchscreen, a glowing Apple logo, and U.S. starting prices of $2,899 and $3,399 respectively.
- Reviewers and tests praise the display’s deeper blacks, wider color (P3 plus Adobe RGB) and higher peak HDR brightness up to 2,000 nits, while user reaction is split on how useful touch is in typical laptop workflows.
- Apple fitted the PROLED models with M5 Pro or M5 Max chips rather than the newer M6, producing differences in GPU core counts, external‑display support and maximum unified memory that give M5 Pro SKUs higher memory ceilings than M6 variants.
- Teardowns from iFixit and others show key components including RAM and SSD are soldered, the illuminated logo is built with four LEDs behind the display, and the machine earned a middling repairability score of 5 out of 10, making upgrades or some repairs difficult.
- Critics warn the 24GB base unified memory is likely to bottleneck local large‑model AI and heavy pro workloads, prompting some to recommend Windows laptops with larger memory pools for those use cases and signalling a choice for buyers between display quality and future‑proofed memory headroom.