In a flurry of early morning announcements, Apple has pulled back the curtain on a new chipset powering its portable professional-class devices.

The star of the show is the new M5 chip, which has added more Neural Accelerators to its GPU, allowing the new chip to chew through AI workloads. Beyond that, the GPU has also been tuned to provide better graphics performance, suggesting this model will be even better for gaming.

The new M5-equipped version of everyone’s favourite laptop is not getting many updates this year beyond the new chip and the improvements it brings. In its press release , Apple highlights the faster memory bandwidth since it should help with bulk importing large files.

Users who spend a lot of time dealing with large files can now pre-order a 4TB version of the smalle

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