The Apple M5 is barely a hop, much less the technological leap that Apple wants it to be

Apple makes a fantastic product, including some of the best laptops in the world, but sometimes it can feel like Apple's biggest innovation year after year is hype.

And so now that Apple has announced its new Apple M5 chip that will power the 14-inch MacBook Pro, 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro, and Vision Pro headset, a simple look at the press release is enough to see the Apple hype train clearing the station.

Will the Apple M5 be a good chip? Almost certainly, considering that its predecessor, the Apple M4, was a good chip, too, and the Apple M5 is more akin to what's already on the market than "the next big leap" Apple is always promising.