Apple Silicon is an impressive powerhouse of engineering and innovation, impressing me again and again with its performance and margins, but I ran into a constant stumbling block: too many tabs. Now, for the first time, I may have found, in the M5 14-inch MacBook Pro, a system that is immune to tab jams and never shows me that dreaded pinwheel spinning.
I’ve been using the M5 14-inch MacBook Pro for almost a week, casting aside the equally impressive M4 model in favor of a system that promises 20% better multithreaded performance.
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With virtually every Apple Silicon Mac since the iconic MacBook Air M1, there always comes a time in my work where Chrome tabs (I use Chrome instead of Safari because my desktop usually runs Google apps like Gmail, Drive, Meets, etc.) and other apps I usually use like Adobe Photoshop slow down or stop responding and I see the rainbow pinwheel spinning while I wait for the system to recover and return control to me.
To be clear, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro never crash. There’s no blue screen of death in macOS (including the pretty new Tahoe covered in liquid glass), just slowing down or what feels like saving on a busy thoroughfare. I usually try to wait patiently for the system and then close the browser tabs.
Things were different, however, with my M5 14-inch MacBook Pro, configured with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage ($1,799 / £1,799 / AU$2,799).
As I write this, I am currently running
- 37 Chrome tabs
- 2 Safari tabs
- 6 tabs ChatGPT Atlas
- Photoshop
- Fast time
on two screens. The M5 14-inch MacBook Pro seems not only comfortable with the situation, but also peppy.
Switching between Photoshop and my endless tabs is no problem. On the contrary, the system seems hungry for more. As I write this, I’ve opened half a dozen more tabs in Safari and as many in Chrome (plus a few in Atlas).
Did the MacBook Pro 14 just smile at me and say, “Is that all you got?” »
I feel like, for the first time, Apple has harnessed the full potential of Apple Silicon and consumer productivity. Yes, there are those who will produce graphics, music, coding, and games on these workhorses, but for the vast majority of the workforce, it’s the browser and tabs that matter. We all put tabs down the throats of our computers.
Who cares if Apple made exactly zero design and external hardware updates? I’m thrilled that the M5 14-inch MacBook Pro is finally up to…or, uh…the task.
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