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The M5 MacBook Pro just came out and it's already $100 off in this killer Black Friday deal!

MacBook Pro M5 with Black Friday deal tag superimposed
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It's only been a few weeks since Apple launched the brand-new MacBook Pro M5 and it's already on sale for the lowest price I've ever seen for Black Friday!

But Black Friday is still a few weeks away, you say? Who cares!? Amazon is knocking over $100 off the MacBook Pro M5, that's all you need to worry about!

Apple 14" M5 MacBook Pro (1 TB)
Apple 14" M5 MacBook Pro (1 TB): was $1,799 now $1,658 at Amazon

This is a great deal on the new 14" MacBook Pro packing Apple's M5 chip, which is just a few weeks old as of publication. That's why it's amazing you can score over $100 off these cutting-edge MacBooks with their 14.2-inch Liquid Retina displays, 16GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD storage. It's nearly the same model we tested for our MacBook Pro M5 review, and you can read through it to see our hands-on photos, testing results and why we gave it our Editor's Choice award!

That's the lowest price I've ever seen on this MacBook Pro, which admittedly isn't a huge surprise given it just came out last month.

The model on sale is nearly identical to the one we tested a few weeks ago, and you can check out our MacBook Pro M5 review to see photos of it in action and read all about why we gave it 4.5/5 stars and our Editor's Choice award.

I could waste a few more paragraphs here telling you all about it myself, but I thought it might be easier to just show you a chart of our results when we tested the MacBook Pro M5's performance and compared it against its predecessor as well as a similar 14" Windows laptop.

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, right? So this chart should be worth at least a few hundred, since it shows how the M5 MacBook Pro is significantly faster than its predecessor in terms of CPU power, video editing speed and SSD transfer speeds.

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Performance benchmarks
Row 0 - Cell 0

MacBook Pro M5

MacBook Pro M4

Dell 14 Premium

Geekbench 6 (single-core)

4,288

3,807

2,701

Geekbench 6 (multi-core)

17,986

15,114

15,794

Handbrake

3:31 (mins:secs)

4:27

5:06

PugetBench (PhotoShop)

13,755 (score) | 8.2 secs (time)

10,542 | 11.74

7,583 | 18.1

That makes this laptop a great device for editing video on the go, especially when you factor in the industry-leading 18 hours of battery life. That's not just Apple's marketing, either—we ran the MacBook Pro M5 through multiple iterations of our in-house battery test and it went the distance every time.

MacBook Pro M5

The MacBook Pro M5 is one of the best laptops for video editing you can buy, and right now it's the cheapest it's ever been. (Image credit: Tom's Guide)

And while the notch cutout at the top of the display takes a day or two to get used to, you do get used to it and (in my experience) stop noticing it entirely. What you will notice (again, in my experience) is the high quality of video captured by the 12MP Center Stage camera nestled within the notch.

MacBooks can't compete against the best Windows gaming laptops when it comes to frames per second, but the MacBook Pro has become a decent gaming machine over the last few years and the M5 chip in this model lets you have some fun when the work is done.

As my colleague Tony Polanco found when he tested out gaming on a MacBook Pro M5 you can have quite an entertaining time gaming on this device, especially if you're playing titles well optimized for Apple silicon like the Resident Evil games or No Man's Sky. And of course the M5 chip supports the Apple App Store as well, so you can play all your favorite iOS and iPadOS games on this portable powerhouse.

Whether you're writing, editing photos and video or making games there's good reason to buy the brand-new MacBook Pro M5, especially now that it's on sale for the lowest price I've ever seen. I highly doubt we'll see Amazon or Apple chop the price any lower for Black Friday, so you may as well buy now if you're interested!


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Jason England
Managing Editor — Computing

Jason brings a decade of tech and gaming journalism experience to his role as a Managing Editor of Computing at Tom's Guide. He has previously written for Laptop Mag, Tom's Hardware, Kotaku, Stuff and BBC Science Focus. In his spare time, you'll find Jason looking for good dogs to pet or thinking about eating pizza if he isn't already.

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