Latest MacBook Pro battery life unaffected despite a big change<div class="feat-image">

</div><p>We noted that the brand new M5 Pro and M5 Max versions of the MacBook Pro have <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/04/m5-chips-now-have-three-types-of-core-what-does-this-actually-mean/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a significantly different chip architecture[/url] to their predecessors.</p>
<p>While the M4 Pro and M4 Max models had a mix of efficiency and performance cores to balance battery life against power, the new models ditch the efficiency cores … </p>
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Latest MacBook Pro battery life unaffected despite a big change