M5 Pro MacBook Pro or Upcoming M5 Max Mac Studio

So I currently have an M3 pro 18gb MacBook Pro, and while I would say it is far from holding me back on my last editing project I noticed the ram was swapping about 3-4 gb pretty constantly. So I’m deciding if I go for a m5 pro MacBook Pro with the 20 core gpu and maybe 38gb of ram, or waiting for the new m5 max Mac Studio with 48GB of ram and the higher core gpu and just using my MacBook Pro with the m3 pro as an on the go editing machine, something I don’t do often but I do often enough and more In the future. I don’t think it’s bad for it to swap a bit but I think doing it on all my projects all the time is. I’m leaning more twords the the studio since I edit at home 90% of the time but if I do this the studio needs to last 4-5 years and my MacBook Pro another 2 years minimum. And if I go for the laptop it needs to last 4 years.

What I use

FCP on network storage (unless I’m on the go then I use a t7 shield) 4K 30 with HDR from an canon r50

While also often at the same time using Pixelmator and photoshop for making graphs for the videos I’m editing

Occasionally using Adobe primmer pro, after effects and audition

Posted Apr 9, 2026, 9:20 PM UTC

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