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Apple MacBook Pro 14" M5 16GB/1TB $2,559 Delivered @ Amazon AU (Officeworks Price Beat $2,431)

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$2,559 @ Amazon AU
Approx $2,431 @ Officeworks after 5% price beat (approved)

Picked up a 14-inch MacBook Pro (M5) with 16GB unified memory and 1TB SSD for approx $2,431 brand new via Officeworks price beat.

I was originally aiming for the M5 24GB model, but for the video editing and AI workloads I’m currently using, this config is plenty. The higher-spec models are online-only at Officeworks, so price beat doesn’t apply to those, which made this the best value option that actually worked in store.

How
* Amazon AU had this listed at $2,559 (sold and shipped by Amazon AU, in stock, GST included).
* Took the listing into Officeworks and received the 5% price beat approval. Final price came out to approx $2,431.

Specs
* 14" MacBook Pro
* Apple M5 chip (10-core CPU / 10-core GPU)
* 16GB unified memory
* 1TB SSD
* Space Black

Officeworks product page
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/macbook-pr…

Notes
* YMMV depending on store and staff.
* Screenshot of the Amazon listing helped.
* Amazon price may change.

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  • John Doh on 09/02/2026 - 09:57
    +1

    Maybe a typo, but below the colour selection it says M4.

  • Nedkellyinthebush on 09/02/2026 - 10:04
    +3

    New M5 pro chips are coming out in a matter of days

    • superroach on 09/02/2026 - 10:28
      +5

      Sure, but if you're after an M5, this isn't going to change

      • killingtime on 09/02/2026 - 12:11

        Not even wait a few days to see what you're missing out on?

        Can make a better decision then.

        I know ozbargain has a obsession with buying old things. 100x time Red dead redemption/Cyber punk is posted, or last year's Iphone.

        Or the other day a 3 year old phone case.

        • eecan on 09/02/2026 - 12:51
          +7

          Different product lines. If you were on the market for a base m5 MBP then chances are you didn’t have budget or requirement for a m5 pro or m5 max MBP anyway. Wait and see would more be an argument for the M6 in this scenario, not the m5 pro or max.

          • Kangal on 09/02/2026 - 22:12

            @eecan: Apple will be announcing them in a couple weeks, and release new hardware in the next month's. The new chipset improvements are slight for CPU performance but moreso improved efficiency. Where there are the biggest gains (and somewhat needed) was in the GPU department. So according to some new leaks and estimates from Max Tech:

            • the M5 Ultra is almost as fast as an RTX-5090 Desktop, and no comparisons to laptops.
            • the M5 Max is roughly -50% slower, making it slightly FASTER than an RTX-5070Ti Desktop or RTX-5090 Laptop.
            • Extrapolating, the M5 Pro is likely to be around an RTX-5060Ti Desktop or RTX-5080 Laptop in performance, that's impressive value.
            • Known quantity, the M5 chip itself is roughly equivalent to a Desktop or Laptop RTX-5050 in performance.

            These are based on synthetic benchmarks. Obviously the level of software optimisation is really important for the end goal. I think for AI Tasks and 3D Rendering, the Apple devices will punch above their weight. But when it comes to Gaming and Decoding, the Apple devices will punch below their levels, and show the limitations of their macOS software. I still would not recommend Mac's if you're interested in Gaming, Linux or Legacy Code.

            • ewok666 on 10/02/2026 - 14:14
              +8

              @Kangal: Happy to be proven wrong but my guess is the only thing about the M5 Ultra being 'almost' as fast as a 5090 desktop is the speed of the fan on it.

    • John Doh on 09/02/2026 - 10:48

      I hope they dont increase the memory or the base prices.

      • Nedkellyinthebush on 09/02/2026 - 14:17
        +3

        We’re at a point where Apple customers hope they get less memory to save money lol

      • DmytroP on 10/02/2026 - 01:08
        +1

        With the current RAM prices, they may introduce the 8GB M5 pro laptops.

    • MrSaturday on 09/02/2026 - 11:12
      +1

      And a new design MacBook Pro coming later this year.

      • Nedkellyinthebush on 09/02/2026 - 14:19
        +1

        Yeah I need to upgrade my M1 Pro and was looking forward to see how M5 Pro would be, but with a new design coming in the same year I’d rather wait. The problem is I would prefer to spend money this financial year 😭

        • superroach on 12/02/2026 - 12:17

          The m1 pro is fine. I have one too. If you can wait, do it :) You're not missing out on any new features, although the Perf bump of an m5 is nothing to sneeze at, a huge bump again from an already very fast cpu.

      • raybies on 09/02/2026 - 17:24

        And a new OLED, and maybe touch, and no notch, and, and… WELCOME to the hype train.

    • User531437 on 09/02/2026 - 11:44

      I heard M6 Pro chips are coming out in a matter of several days. Maybe hold on?

    • OMG on 09/02/2026 - 13:52

      For a 16GB RAM MacBook Pro, M4/M5/M5 Pro/M5 max doesn't make too much difference. If you really care about performance, etc., you will need to pick something with 24GB above of RAM.

      • compound on 09/02/2026 - 15:31
        +1

        I got 32GB and I want more.

        • Daabido on 09/02/2026 - 20:40
          +2

          Peasant.

          • John Doh on 10/02/2026 - 07:14

            @Daabido: Agree, he lives in his mum's basement. Oh wait… no basements here.

    • entropysbane on 09/02/2026 - 16:09

      By “matter of days” do you mean “March”?

      • Nedkellyinthebush on 09/02/2026 - 17:11

        March is 20 days away so it is a matter of days

    • raybies on 09/02/2026 - 17:22
      +1

      People being saying that for weeks… yes I've seen the part numbers in the latest MacOS.
      I reckon they'll be in June.

  • Mitchandmacs on 09/02/2026 - 10:15
    +4

    Not bad.
    AOC store cost is $2543, standard EDU store is $2649 with free AirPods 4 w/ANC.

    If you don’t need the AirPods this is a decent deal, and more than enough Computer for most people.

    That said, M5 Pro/Max variants are due any time between now and early March and for a >$3k purchase it’s probably worth the wait, or even waiting on discounts on previous-gen higher specced machines.

    • Buy2Much on 09/02/2026 - 10:40
      +4

      Don’t forget using Apple GC with bonus points is the equivalent of another 10% off https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/945831

      • xmagic on 09/02/2026 - 13:35

        There are GC work with OW that you can take another ~9% off. That's gonna be some very competitive pricing.

        Though I would option for 32GB RAM. Somehow M2 + 24GB is not enough for me personally haha.

  • ViperAMD on 09/02/2026 - 10:53
    +1

    Can you upgrade the ram? 16GB isn't a whole lot these days.

    Edit: damn, you can't. Seems like a weird option, phones have 12gb+ these days, this CPU is a beast and will be completely bottlenecked by the ram.

    • Pest85 on 09/02/2026 - 11:02
      +3

      No, ram or disk or anything is NOT uprgadable on macs for a very, very long time now.
      And yes, 16Gb is an insult, especially for "pro" and this pricepoint

      • Evanlet on 09/02/2026 - 11:16
        -3

        Even my tablet has 128gb of ram.

        • eddyah on 09/02/2026 - 11:17

          YEAH!

        • 3L Milk on 09/02/2026 - 11:17
          +3

          Surely that’s a waste

          • noisymime on 09/02/2026 - 12:53
            +1

            @3L Milk: There's some AI focused tablets these days that are specifically designed for running LLMs locally and have huge amounts of shared RAM for it. It's a niche use case, but they're definitely out there.

        • thriftshop on 10/02/2026 - 10:10

          @Evanlet I see what you did there. Well played.

          For those who didn’t realise 128gb is 16GB.

      • eddyah on 09/02/2026 - 11:18
        +2

        16GB is the minimum you need to run a working macbook (they were quite stubborn sticking to 8GB MBAs for a while).

        I disagree though on needing more for a 'pro' workstation. Unless you're running inference engines locally this pro is fine for most people as a 'base model pro'.

        Macs have such great disks that they swap heavily and have NOT shown to degrade the SSD (despite many losers online claiming they would need RMAs soon).

    • rabid_monkey on 09/02/2026 - 12:29
      +3

      The 24GB/1TB model is $3098. Just a lazy $539 for 6GB Of ram.

    • xmagic on 09/02/2026 - 13:38
      +1

      Apple bumped all base M chip Macs to 16GB previously for AI to work properly on these machines. I believe all other RAM configs are BTO and rarely seen on retailer models.

    • ozbargainhunter400 on 09/02/2026 - 15:29
      +2

      Doing dev work on a M4 Mac Mini base (I self upgraded the SSD) and I disagree.

      I only ran out of RAM once whilst doing some builds but just closed an app, otherwise this thing screams (silently).

      My other machine is a M1 Max 32GB MBP which was my daily workhorse but that's now my bedtime machine.

  • icemanmelb on 09/02/2026 - 10:58

    There was also a 5% ShopBack yesterday for those who purchased from the Education Store yesterday.. Sunday

    • Daabido on 09/02/2026 - 20:44

      Your Tardis or mine?

  • srhardy on 09/02/2026 - 11:35
    -4

    Unless your running LLMs locally 16gb is ample and if you are your looking at 64-512gb not 24gb! Your also waiting for Pro/Max/Ultra too otherwise a 12month subscription to googles gemini plus offer is a way better deal at a millionth the price!!!

  • gcheap on 09/02/2026 - 12:46
    +3

    A "pro" model laptop costing 2.5k with 16GB is interesting to say the least. 16GB has been like the bare minimum for any laptop/desktop for a number of years now.

    • shabaka on 09/02/2026 - 20:10

      I picked up an M1 Max MBP 16 used for $1500 last year. installed new battery myself. 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD. best $1500 I have ever spent.

      not sure why were they getting rid of it cheap. probably were scared to replace the battery? no idea. it's quite a procedure alright, but not like rocket science.

      I can run pretty much any LLM I like. 400GB/s memory bandwidth on M1 Max is still something to beat. Nemotron 3 Nano around 70 tokens per second.

      • thriftshop on 10/02/2026 - 10:17

        Maybe because it’s only a couple years away from not getting major macOS updates and didn’t want to wait too close to this final major macOS update to sell it.

    • superroach on 12/02/2026 - 12:19

      Get used to it, this year will be plenty of 16GB models due to Ram supply and price constraints.

  • iRMonkey on 09/02/2026 - 13:14
    +2

    Comparing 16/24GB on Apple silicon and an OS designed for that hardware is not really a comparison to an equivalent OEM laptop running Windows (especially 11). The RAM discussions are a bit moot unless you're running memory intensive workloads, in which case you'll know how much you need to do those workloads independently.

    • moph on 09/02/2026 - 14:07
      +1

      I had read this and believed it too, and no doubt it's true to some extent, but my current MBP (M3) has 16gb which I was assured would be enough, but I wish I had gone for 32gb. I'm not running any special heavy loads, just vs code and web browsers mostly, but I get memory warnings and have to close browser windows sometimes.

  • blaze on 09/02/2026 - 13:26
    +6

    not bad if you want a macbook pro now.

    you might arguably be better off with a m4 pro from the refurb store, depending on your use case

    ie for $2799 and with 24gb ram: https://www.apple.com/au/shop/product/fx2e3x/a/Refurbished-1…

    📊 Geekbench 6 CPU scores (approximate)

    M5 (10-core): ~4 200 single-core, ~17 900 multi-core

    M4 Pro (12-core): ~3 970–4 000 single-core, ~20 200–22 600 multi-core

    Summary interpretation

    Single-core: The standard M5 tends to be slightly faster per core, scoring around 5–10 % higher than the M4 Pro in single-threaded benchmarks.

    Multi-core: The M4 Pro usually leads in multi-core performance because it has more performance cores, with scores roughly 10–25 % higher than the 10-core M5 in multi-threaded tasks.

    What this means in practice

    Single-thread tasks (launching apps, light editing, browsing): The standard M5 may feel a bit snappier.

    Heavy multi-threaded workloads (video encoding, large data jobs, compiling): The M4 Pro’s higher multi-core score can deliver more sustained throughput.

    • noscopedJFK on 09/02/2026 - 13:46
      +1

      Helpful read

    • ozbargainhunter400 on 09/02/2026 - 15:30

      Macbook Pro M4 Pro

      It always gets my comprehension going…

      • lunchbox99 on 09/02/2026 - 22:43

        What's the problem? You buy it with money from the ATM machine.

    • hashtagbargain on 02/03/2026 - 15:32

      Damn looks like that model is no longer available.

      Any other similar options @blaze?

  • kungfuman on 09/02/2026 - 15:44
    +1

    yeah i don't even touch a mac or pc unless it has a min if 24gb of ram, current one I am on is a M4 PRO 14 inch with 1tb and 24gb

    • DaiShan on 09/02/2026 - 16:15
      +1

      Your use-case must be extremely demanding?

      • kungfuman on 09/02/2026 - 16:16

        primary use is video editing, photo editing and xcode development 16gb really doesnt' cut it much any more. Mac OS has become more demanding of ram i have noticed as well.

        • ivegan on 09/02/2026 - 18:15
          -1

          yes it has, and I am struggling to get its 256gb ram. even os releases with xcode is so demanding to the space.

      • DmytroP on 10/02/2026 - 01:14

        Using chrome on m1 with 16GB of RAM is quite painful.

        • DaiShan on 10/02/2026 - 11:05

          I have a m1 pro (16gb) and haven't had any issues. although i switched to firefox a while ago

        • superroach on 12/02/2026 - 12:23

          It runs great - you did mention chrome, not video editing etc.

          • DmytroP on 12/02/2026 - 14:58

            @superroach: It's only an issue if you keep a number of open tabs for a while, chrome tends to leak memory regardless of OS.

            After keeping around 30-50 tabs open for a week or so, you would easily end up with all the RAM and over 16GB of swap used, with laptop (expectably) starts to behave quite laggy. If you restart chrome with the same tabs, memory consumption is much lower.

  • FrugalDealSeeker on 14/02/2026 - 08:11

    anyone knows if HN will price match this? My employer has sal sac agreement with them.

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