MacBook Pro With PROLED XDR Display: Details You Might Have Missed

The new MacBook Pro models with PROLED XDR displays began arriving to customers on Friday, and various details about the laptops continue to surface.

Given these models are available with the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips that power the models with mini-LED displays, performance was expected to be virtually identical across the board, and benchmark results confirm that is the case.

Average scores for multi-core CPU performance in the Geekbench 7 database:

• 16-inch MacBook Pro (Mini-LED, M5 Max): 34,988
• 16-inch MacBook Pro (PROLED XDR, M5 Max): 34,904

The chip has an 18-core CPU in both models.

YouTube channel Max Tech noted that the bottom cover on the new MacBook Pro models has slightly recessed feet, and there are now only four pentalobe screws holding it in place, compared to eight on previous models.

Under the bottom cover sit larger speakers, which provide 50% deeper bass according to Apple.

16-inch/Mini-LED on left, 16-inch/PROLED on right

While the MacBook Neo's keyboard can be replaced individually, this is not the case for the new MacBook Pro models, as Apple's repair manuals show the laptops continue to have an all-in-one "Top Case with Battery and Keyboard" part.

In case you missed it, the bottom corners of the display are now rounded on the new models, whereas only the top corners are rounded on the mini-LED displays. This small change results in a much more uniform design.

As we noted over the weekend, Daring Fireball's John Gruber confirmed that the illuminated Apple logo on the new MacBook Pro lids uses a custom light source — seemingly a white LED. On older MacBooks released in 2015 and earlier, the Apple logo was illuminated by the LCD's backlight, but OLED displays do not have a backlight.

Why did Apple bring back the illuminated logo? Gruber shared Apple's answer. "Because it's awesome," he heard an Apple representative say.

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