14" MBP M4 Pro or 14" MBP M5, that’s the question.

Is this the first time Apple released just the base chip and not the Pro nor the Max version at the same time?

Are they trying to milk the market in small increments? Especially before Christmas.

The MBP 14 M5 release came a bit unexpected. Many analysts mentioned beginning of 2026.

When will M5 Pro and Max be released?

What are your thoughts on comparing M4 Pro against the base version of M5?

The original M1 was released in base form before Pro/Max/Ultra variants. I think that pattern may have repeated for M2, but I'm not sure.

FlowRipple looks very interesting!

Have you been inspired by Node-RED?

Hahah no but I remember trying to figure how Node-RED works at least 10 years back on my RaspberryPi. I work at a company called Spur, which is a Whatsapp Marketing Software, we have a workflow automation interface there, which is used to create chatbots. On weekends I was just experimenting on some different framework libraries on which we can rebuild our workflow builder. Stumbled across SvelteFlow and tried it out, one month later here we are :)

I don’t understand why Apple doesn’t support daisy chaining multiple monitors using DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport (MST). That would be an elegant solution that also would fit Apple’s style.

This person here seems to have gotten daisy chaining of two 4K monitors working just fine on a Macbook Pro with an M1 Pro chip: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253341707?sortBy=best

They noted that their monitor came with cables that didn't support daisy chaining, when they upgraded their cables to ones that supported 40 Gbit/s then everything was fine.

Probably because their benchmark for displays (>220dpi, plus 10bit HDR in some cases) chews through so much bandwidth that it's not really feasible to squeeze two of them onto a single DP1.4 connection. DP2.1 could do it but Apple doesn't support that yet, and even if they did the monitors would also need DP2.1 passthrough, which also none of them do yet.

MST over DP1.4 only really makes sense for traditional low DPI displays.

I’ve got 2 4k UltraFine monitors and they chain with no issues.

I think OP means chaining via Display Port, that doesn’t seem to be supported on Mac. Seems it only supports chaining via Thunderbolt.

Are you referring to government and politicians?

It surprises me that MS still overrides user settings during updates. Especially since Satya Nadella is trying to modernise. But you can also see this disrespectful handling of user choices as result of internal conflicts. The old patronising MS is still there. Meanwhile MS is doing amazing stuff with Azure, Github and VS Code.

Ken?

Let's hope that Wikipedia's redesign puts some pressure on eBay and Amazon to follow suit.

When will MS Terminal get slashes pointing in the right direction?

Already does if you use WSL :)

Also powershell happily lets you use slash, as god intended.