Apple, Sony and Logitech roll out new pro hardware

Apple, Sony and Logitech each introduced new professional products, with Apple's touch-enabled MacBook Pro, Sony Korea's FX5 cinema camera and Logitech's MX Master 4 Developer Edition mouse headlining the launches, according to techm.kr.

Apple unveiled the new MacBook Pro on October 28, describing it as the first Mac to support touch input through a display called PROLED XDR. The laptop uses tandem OLED technology with a 10-120Hz variable refresh rate, up to 2000 nits brightness and P3/Adobe RGB color gamuts. It runs on M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, with up to 128GB unified memory and up to 16TB storage. The 14-inch and 16-inch models weigh 1.38kg and 1.82kg respectively, and Apple claims up to 24 hours of battery life.

Pre-orders for the MacBook Pro began on October 30, with the official release set for November 6. Apple said Lightroom, DaVinci Resolve and Blender touch support is coming in the second half of this year.

Sony Korea released the FX5 full-frame cinema camera in Korea on October 30. The FX5 has a newly developed stacked 5K full-frame Exmor RS CMOS sensor and a BIONZ XR2 image processing engine with an AI processing unit. It is the first in Sony's FX cinema line to support 5K 3:2 open gate recording, records Sony's 16-bit X-OCN RAW internally and supports the X-OCN C1 and C2 codecs in addition to X-OCN LT. It shoots 5K at up to 60fps, 4K at up to 120fps and Full HD at up to 240fps. Sony also released the XLR-H2 XLR handle unit, which enables up to 96kHz 32-bit float recording and up to 4-channel audio input.

Logitech introduced the MX Master 4 Developer Edition, a limited-edition mouse inspired by developers' work routines. Its matte body is laser-engraved with code syntax symbols, markup tags, circuit patterns and a '{Hello, World}' message. The mouse features haptic feedback, an Action Ring button for custom macros and an AI coding assistant, plus a MagSpeed wheel that scrolls up to 1000 lines per second.