# M5 MacBook Pros, Mac Neo, Studio Display XDR — Reacting to Apple’s Wild Week!

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Podcast: [The CultCast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cultcast-745209)
Published: 2026-03-06T09:00:00+00:00
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Send us a text! This week: Apple had a huge week. New M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros just landed with massive performance gains and surprising efficiency improvements. Apple also introduced the Mac Neo — a $500 Mac that Steve Jobs once said Apple could never build — plus a new Studio Display XDR that might quietly be the most exciting announcement of the bunch. In this episode, I break down everything Apple announced, what’s actually impressive, where the compromises are hiding, a...

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