John Siracusa
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28,145 appearances
45 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2024
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John Siracusa’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Some weird increase.
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But that's what the market will bear at this point.
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They would have liked to have kept these increases the same as they were before, but they couldn't.
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And again, 8 terabytes, it's going to be $380 more than it used to be for a nice round $3,800 added to the price of your Mac
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Well, when this was first happening, everybody's RAM prices and storage prices were going up, but Apple's weren't yet because they hadn't done their price increase.
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It was like, hey, Apple's prices are starting to seem reasonable, but Apple fixed that.
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cool just because you want more storage you're like oh the price will go up a little bit if i add storage and now it's like if you touch that storage tier thing in the configurator you double the price of your computer as soon as you touch it don't do it yeah
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Well, yeah, it's not available in the configurator now.
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You can't even see how much it's going to cost.
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The answer is more than you want to pay.
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much and so this when I was doing this price comparisons like obviously the like the Mac Studio the configurations that you could get the Mac Studio in have just been disappearing over the past month or two right and when I went to do the comparison it was like there was nothing left of the M4 based Mac Studio it's like you get like one RAM configuration per CPU and that's it and
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the M5 model has increased your options again, but you're still constrained.
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So if you want the binned M5 Max, which is like the one with 32 core GPU, you get one RAM choice and that's it.
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The second you want any more RAM, you just got to go with the unbinned one, which increases the price a lot.
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So a lot of people have been tripped up by this.
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Gruber had a post where he's like, oh, my math on the pricing was wrong because it says, oh, add $300 for the CPU choice.
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Oh, I should do that.
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That's a good deal.
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But as soon as you touch that option, it's like, well, a bunch of other stuff is changing too.
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You can't have the binned thing anymore.
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