John Siracusa

And going from two to four is $200 cheaper than it used to be.

And this is also true for the M5 MacBook Pro, not just the M5 Pro.

And I think they adjusted those storage prices as well.

Storage prices went down slightly.

Again, their storage prices are also ridiculous.

And like, you know, going from one terabyte to two terabytes is not a $200 increase in most scenarios.

But, you know, we accept those prices because it's,

We have no other choice.

And it's nice to see them go down.

So as Casey found, if you spend a while in that configurator clicking on these round wrecks and watching things collapse and whatever and build the computer of your dreams, it will cost the price of your nightmares, I guess.

It's not going to work out well for you, especially since Apple does... I mean, they have to have some reasonable number of configs.

They drive you towards stuff like, again, if you get the M5 Max, no, there's no binned option for you.

You get the one with everything enabled and you pay for it and you have no choice.

And if you want a larger amount of RAM, tough luck.

You can't get the lower power CPU if you want that extra amount of RAM.

You got to, you know, so...

That's just the way it is.

And honestly, I think the configurability of, in particular, the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros is pretty okay.

There are a lot of options, but no, there's not infinite options.

You can't, you know, as we surmised, like, oh, if there's a chiplet architecture, they can mix and match the CPUs and GPUs.