2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo (Yonah), soldered in place, no upgrade options
Clock speed
1.83–2.16
Introduced
February 2006
Discontinued
October 2006
In an unusual Monday product announcement (Apple usually reveals new products on Tuesday), Apple introduced the 17″ MacBook Pro (MBP) with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo CPU. It’s the first MacBook to support FireWire 800, and it also has a dual-layer SuperDrive (vs. single-layer in the 15″ MacBook Pro ).
The 17″ MBP looks a lot like the old 17″ PowerBook G4 , and its 1680 x 1050 display matches its predecessor’s. It is a tiny bit deeper (10.4″ vs. 10.2″) than the 17″ PowerBook G4.
There are two visual clues that this ‘Book is different. There’s a black square above the display for the iSight webcam. And there’s a round spot on the front, a receiver that works with Apple’s remote, which works with Apple’s Front Row software.
Specs (via Low End Mac)
Cpu: 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo (Yonah), soldered in place, no upgrade options
Display: 17″ (43 cm) 18-bit 1680 x 1050 117 ppi color active matrix
Ethernet: 10/100/gigabit
Usb: 3 USB 2.0 ports
Weight: 6.8 pounds (3.1 kg)
Level 2 Cache: 2 MB shared cache on CPU
Gpu: ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 on PCI Express with dual-link DVI support
Video Out: DVI connector (VGA supported with included adapter; S-video and composite video supported with optional adapters)
Optical Drive: 8x dual-layer SuperDrive writes DVD+R at up to 8x, DVD±RW reads DVDs at 4x, double-layer DVD+R at 2.4x), writes CD-R at 24x, writes CD-RW at 16x, reads DVDs at 8x (single-layer) or 6x (double-layer) and CDs at 24x
Firewire 400: 1 port
Firewire 800: 1 port
Wifi: 802.11g AirPort Extreme built in
Modem: optional v.92 56k external USB modem
Bluetooth: BT 2.0 built in
Ir Receiver: supports Apple Remote
Expresscard/34: 1 slot
Expansions Bays: none
Size: 10.4 x 15.4 x 1.0″ (265 x 392 x 25.9 mm)
Battery: 68 watt-hour lithium-polymer
Ac Adapter: 85W MagSafe
Closed Lid Mode: All Intel ‘Books support “lid closed” (or clamshell) mode, which leaves the built-in display off and dedicates all video RAM to an external display. To used closed lid mode, your ‘Book must be plugged into the AC adapter and connected to an external display and a USB or Bluetooth mouse and keyboard (you might also want to consider external speakers). Power up your ‘Book until the desktop appears on the external display and then close the lid. Your ‘Book will go to sleep, but you can wake it by moving the mouse or using the keyboard. The built-in display will remain off, and the external monitor will become your only display. Since all video RAM is now dedicated to the external monitor, you may have more colors available at higher resolutions.
With the new M5 chip quietly added to the entry-level 14-Inch MacBook Pro, it showed up alongside the M5 iPad Pro on Apple’s website, and the M5 Vision Pro. It comes as no surprise the chip has the greatest Single Core performance score of any Mac up until this point, further raising the bar.
On the outside, the 14-Inch M5 MacBook Pro looks the same as the outgoing M4 model. Memory bandwidth is increased to 153 GB/s from the M4’s 120 GB/s. The GPU now has a neural accelerator in each core, to help GPU-based AI workloads run much faster than before. .
In addition to a neural accelerator in each core, it bumps the GPU core count up from M4’s 8, to 10 on the M5.
Specs (via Low End Mac)
Announced: October 15th, 2025 Available October 22nd, 2025
Drive Bus: 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD ~3.3 GB/s or more* , multiple NANDs in Parallel .
Configurable To: 1 TB (+$200) , 2 TB (+$600) , and 4 TB (+$1200) .
Support For: USB 4 (up to 40 Gb/s), USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)
Size: 0.61 x 12.31 x 8.71″ (1.55 x 31.26 x 22.12 cm) Weight: 3.4 pounds (1.55 kg) .
Power Supply: 70W USB-C charging Brick Configure to order: 96W Power brick (+$20) .
Closed Lid Mode: All ‘Books support “lid closed” (or clamshell) mode, which leaves the built-in display off and dedicates all video RAM to an external display or two. To use closed lid mode, your ‘Book must be plugged into the AC adapter and connected to an external display and a USB or Bluetooth mouse and keyboard (you might also want to consider external speakers). Power up your ‘Book until the desktop appears on the external display and then close the lid. Your ‘Book will go to sleep, but you can wake it by moving the mouse or using the keyboard. The built-in display will remain off, and the external monitor will become your only display.
L1I: = L1 Instruction Cache,
L1D: = L1 Data cache,
Slc: = System Level Cache
Note: All M5 chips have this memory configuration for their cache in their CPUS
