Apple's M5 Max delivers a meaningful upgrade for older MacBooks, especially from M2 Max

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Source: The Verge
Apple's M5 Max delivers a meaningful upgrade for older MacBooks, especially from M2 Max
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The Verge finds the M5 Max’s headline upgrade is its much faster SSDs—up to 2x sustained read/write versus the M4 Max (about 13.6 GB/s reads and 17.8 GB/s writes on a 4TB drive). CPU gains are modest (about 8–9% single-core, ~10–14% multi-core) despite six 'super' cores and new performance cores. In practice, the upgrade is not a dramatic leap over the M4 Max, but it’s a meaningful improvement for those coming from an older M2 Max three years ago, especially if fast storage is critical. Full review to come.

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