Four Years and 264 Cycles Cost Our MacBook 14% of Its Battery
264 charge cycles, four years, 86% capacity. Read off three machines the same day, with the part nobody can tell you: how it was charged.
An iPhone 17 Pro Beat a $1,299 iPad Pro at Loading Web Pages
Speedometer 3.1 on five Apple devices we own, three passes each. The iPhone 17 Pro finished ahead of a 13-inch iPad Pro — and a laptop beat a tablet running the same chip.
Should You Replace an M1 Pro MacBook Pro? It Depends on One Question.
Four years of silicon buys between 1.40× and 2.38×, and which end you land on depends on one question about your work. We measured both ends.
The M5 Pro Has 18 Cores to the M4 Pro’s 14. The Count Is Misleading.
The M5 Pro reports 6 super cores and 12 performance cores. No group is called Efficiency any more, so 18 cores and 14 cores are no longer the same kind of number.
M1 Pro vs M4 Pro vs M5 Pro: Four Years Buys You 1.54x to 3.47x
Three generations, one desk, the same workloads. The M5 Pro is 6–9% ahead of the M4 Pro — and 1.4× to 2.4× ahead of the M1 Pro, depending entirely on what you do.