Apple’s MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5) features the latest chip from the Cupertino company, and it's just been super-charged with newer, more powerful, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.

The first reviews of the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with Apple's M5 Pro and M5 Max chips were published today by selected publications and YouTube channels, ahead of the laptops launching on Wednesday.

M5 Pro and M5 Max both use the same 18-core CPU die, but Pro uses a 20-core GPU die, and Max gets a 40-core GPU die. (Because the memory controller is also part of the GPU die, the Max chip still offers more memory bandwidth and supports higher memory configurations than the Pro one does.)

The 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro offers excellent battery life, according to our tests.

While the MacBook Neo achieves a breakthrough $599 starting price, that of course comes with some compromises, and one of them is slower SSD speeds. The Verge today showed the MacBook Neo had up to 8× slower sustained SSD read and write speeds in a benchmark test compared to the new MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.

The M5 MacBook Air launches tomorrow, and the first reviews are now available. Here’s what reviewers are saying.