Apple's 16-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro is $500 cheaper at Amazon right now.
Amazon dropped the price of the 16-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro to $2,499, a 17% cut from its usual $2,999 price tag. The configuration on sale pairs an 18-core CPU with a 20-core GPU, 24GB of unified memory, and 1TB of storage. That's enough horsepower for video editing, rendering, and other workloads Apple bundles under the Apple Intelligence banner. The deal arrived after Amazon's October Prime Day event had already wrapped, not as part of it.
A $500 discount on a laptop this specced is unusual outside a sanctioned sales event, and it signals Amazon discounting Apple hardware on its own schedule rather than waiting for the next shopping holiday. For anyone doing heavy local compute, like video editing, 3D work, or on-device AI tasks, this configuration lands in the practical sweet spot between the base M5 Pro model and pricier Max-chip machines.
Deals like this tend to vanish as fast as they appear, so treat the sale price as a maybe-this-week proposition, not a guarantee.