Apple has a fully redesigned MacBook Pro launching next week that promises to be a major upgrade, except in one key area.

New MacBook Pro will reportedly have no performance boost, use current M5 Pro and Max chips

Next week on October 28 at its ‘Pro and tell’ event , Apple is expected to unveil a redesigned MacBook Pro with major improvements.

The new model is rumored to feature :

brand new industrial design

significantly lighter and a bit thinner

OLED display

touchscreen

Dynamic Island

no notch

wildcard: possibly a C2 cellular modem

If most or all of these rumors prove true, it’s going to be a big upgrade for the MacBook Pro.

But there’s one crucial area that’s not expected to improve: performance .

Per Mark Gurman, the new MacBook Pro will include the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips that first debuted nearly eight months ago .…