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M5 chip is coming to iPad before Mac, but this time will be different
Apple’s M5 chip is rumored to debut in the iPad Pro first, just like the M4 did. But there are two key reasons this time will be different.
So in the shortest gap scenario, the M5 iPad Pro arrives in November, and M5 comes to the Mac two months later in January. Even though the M5 iPad Pro sounds like it will mostly be a spec bump update, this might be the first time iPadOS could genuinely take advantage of such a change. I’ve used the iPad Pro as my primary computer for a decade, and thanks to iPadOS 26, this is the first time I can remember getting excited about a new chip.
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