Dr. Gno

Macbook Pro M5 14" 2025 Review

I've been using MacBook Pros for like a decade as I hate the Microsoft Windows experience so much. MacOS has world class design tools and a FreeBSD userspace. Tahoe makes Windows 11 seem like it came out of 2015. However, the increasing cloud/thick-client & Activation/Erasure & Walled-Garden nature of MacOS is now absurd. Given the Design tools are so world class, it says a lot that I'm leaving the Apple ecosystem.

I've been using a MacBook Pro 2019, another Christmas Gift, from then until now.

I expected jumping into M5 would be a whole 'nother level of mind blowing computing... not ..at ..all. It was just faster and more comfortable.

Apple AI sucked and it was another companies product which is so strange to make it a "killer app" for your OS. Before I get to the kicker lemme just talk about the laptop's RAM. I first got the highest retail generic version with 16GB. With widgets of Little Snitch, Things, Weather, and disabling nearly everything else, I was using 11GB of RAM, absolutely ridiculous, so I returned that version and got a 24GB for $200 extra and that fixed that ...except

It ran hot much of the time using just a single fan that did not sound Tier A so I returned it.