Posted on 10/15/2025 8:04:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Apple announced new MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and Vision Pro models with an updated M5 chip that allows them to run faster than their predecessors.
MacBook Pro models start at $1,599, the 11-inch iPad Pro starts at $999 and the latest Apple Vision Pro starts at $3,499.
The devices are available to preorder now in most markets and go on sale Oct. 22.
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The upgraded Apple Vision Pro features the powerful M5 chip, the comfortable Dual Knit Band, innovative features with visionOS 26, and all-new spatial apps and Apple Immersive content. Courtesy: Apple Inc.
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Apple announced new MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and Vision Pro models on Wednesday with an updated M5 chip that allows them to run faster than their predecessors.
The new MacBook Pro models start at $1,599. The 11-inch iPad Pro starts at $999. The latest Apple Vision Pro, which includes a Dual Knit Band, starts at $3,499.
The new devices are available to preorder now in most markets and go on sale Oct. 22. They are Apple’s latest additions to its fall catalog of products.
The company released the iPhone 17 and Apple Watch Series 11 models in September.
Apple’s December quarter is its largest by sales, driven by holiday and Christmas shopping. That is why the company usually updates its bestselling products in the fall. This year, it’s the first full quarter of iPhone 17 sales as well.
The new device lineup is powered by Apple’s M5 chip, which the company said has four times the peak compute performance compared with the previous M4.
Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Technologies, said in a release that the “M5 delivers a huge boost to AI workloads.”
Wednesday’s announcement comes as Wall Street analysts are closely watching Apple’s new releases to see if the company is raising prices or eating costs related to President Donald Trump’s announced and threatened tariffs, especially on semiconductors and China.
Starting prices for the latest M5 models are the same as the previous versions.
While iPads and MacBooks aren’t as critical for Apple as iPhone sales, they are still massive businesses.
Apple reported $6.58 billion in iPad sales in the June quarter, an 8% decrease on an annual basis that the company attributed to difficult comparisons to the year-ago quarter when new iPad Pros were released.
Mac sales in the June quarter came in at $8.05 billion, a 15% increase on a year-over-year basis. Apple released a new version of what it calls its bestselling laptop, the MacBook Air, earlier this year.
Apple has never broken out figures for the Vision Pro headset but they are included alongside Apple Watch and AirPods sales in the company’s wearables, or other products, line item. Analysts believe the company’s Vision Pro revenue is negligible.
MacBook, iPads and Vision Pro put together are significantly less than Apple’s iPhone revenue, which accounted for more than 47% of revenue in the company’s June quarter at just under $45 billion.
Wall Street analysts tend to focus on iPhone sales and growth over the company’s secondary product lines.
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Does anybody use immersive 3D “virtual reality” headsets?
20 years ago, it was thought they would find a huge application in industry. You could “look” at an aircraft and “see” all the wiring or hydraulic lines in the aircraft.
I got a pair of 3D glasses with a plasma TV I bought maybe 10 or 15 years ago. They are still sitting in the original case, unopened and unused.
I’m a long-time Mac user. My wife worked at Apple for ten years back in the Steve Jobs days when the Lisa and Mac were being invented. We used to get new products to bring home and try out plus got huge employee discounts. That started us down the path of using almost all of Apple’s products and enjoying their “ecosystem.” We are still an iPhone / iPad / MacBook Pro / MacBook Air / Apple TV / AirPods family. I’m renting a Chevy Trax this week and like the Apple CarPlay.
Me too. Just for tourism alone, imagine being able to walk or drive through a city, look around, move at your own pace, etc.
I have never owned any Apple products nor, as far as I know, even touched one anywhere............
And I used to think you were such a nice guy!
I have nothing against Apple, just never could afford their products. I may buy an Apple Mac at some point now, though..............
Somebody once said using tech should be like using your toaster (of course, that was before toasters went digital and hard to operate). Apple products always came close to that ideal. Through the years, I’ve tried to simplify things and just didn’t have the desire or patience to keep MS stuff running.
Does anybody use immersive 3D “virtual reality” headsets?
It’s like a pogo stick, there’s no way to use them and look cool.
No M5 Pro/Max until 2026. By the end of 2026, you may have an M6 + new laptop design.
There's a rumor of an A19 (current iPhone CPU) based laptop, analogous to the Snapdragon laptops already out there. The difference will be a much lower price, thanks to the economy of scale from a couple of billion iPhones.
Eventually they will have embedded chips containing an LLM model more powerful than the ones today. So basically every laptop will come with ChatGPT as firmware.
What could possibly gor wr.... wr.... wr....
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Yeah, but at least we get Elvis playing Captain Kirk....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bqWTWHCgc
LOL. Nice simile!
Where’s the rumored new AppleTV set top box, or whatever they’re going to call it? The branding in that space is really confused.
Apple TV+ Rebranding to “Apple TV”
https://www.reddit.com/r/appletv/comments/1o5ntcw/apple_tv_rebranding_to_apple_tv/
Tl;dr, from one of the comments:
“So now there’s a piece of hardware, a streaming service and a streaming platform all called Apple TV. Awesome.”
🤦🏻
That’s quite an expensive upgrade.
Oh goodie more products coming from Woke Apple.
How much conservative money is going to be given to Apple to subsidies their DEI hires?
Enjoyed it until I stopped watching. A channel begun in May of last year, and "only" 35 videos? With A-Eye -- which is bad grammar -- one could make thousands. And to what end? The last question is the serious remark.
Disney already went queer and Bud Lite Mulvaney'd itself. The sky's the limit. Said a sunny Icarus. :)
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