New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- Earlier this year, Apple marked the second consecutive year of launching a laptop with absolutely no identifiers of changes on the exterior. After a redesign in 2023, Apple's MacBook Pro lineup is deemed to be fresh enough in design, and functional enough in practicality-prompting the company to make no changes to what is not broken. This year, the M5 chip's advent made for even fewer changes-but for its target audience, this can be a crucial upgrade.

On paper, the M5 chip is clearly the better one. While its single-core performance is comparable with the M4 chip, the M5-powered MacBook Pro critically does well at improving its graphics processing unit (GPU) performance, as well as what the company calls 'neural acce...