Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has said that we’ll see no M5 MacBook Pro this year, and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo seconds that opinion.
“The high-end M5 processors in the 2026 MacBooks will continue to use separate underfill and molding processes,” he says in a research note.
On July 10, Gurman said Apple won’t refresh any Macs with updated M5 chips this year, and that the iPad Pro will be the first Apple device to get a M5 processor. Updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models are now planned for the first half of 2026, he added. This mirrors the rollout of the M4 processor when the iPad Pro was the first Apple product to get the processor.
The interesting thing is that the tech giant could roll out two MacBook Pro models in early 2026. One would be a M5-equipped laptop with few design changes.
The other would be a slimmer MacBook Pro with an OLED display and, perhaps, cellular connectivity. However, Gurman says the latter might not arrive until early 2027.
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