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Yeah, we did get a lot of feedback kind of defending the M Pro chips because I was kind of crapping on them last episode.

And I think I did a poor job of explaining my main point, which is that the M4 base chip has gotten so good that if you're looking at performance per dollar in CPU performance in particular, the M4 is way better than the Pro or the Macs.

What I was saying was that the Macs usually at least has the benefit of like if you need really big RAM or other very large resources, sometimes you have to go with the Pro or the Mac chip to do that.

But neither of them in terms of like CPU performance per dollar, neither of them are good values compared to the base chip.

So I think like you know the max makes its case that like you know if you need the biggest of everything the max is it and you know if you need the best bang for your buck the base chip is it and the pro is it is between those two.

My thinking was not fully considering the pricing aspect because, like, I didn't realize, like, because I haven't bought one in a couple years.

Like, I'm still using an M3 Max for my main Mac here.

So I didn't realize, like, oh, the price difference is actually pretty big between them.

So it is a middle step in terms of, like, you can pay some more and get some more.

But in terms of, like, sheer computing power for the dollar, neither the Pro nor the Max are good values compared to the base chip, which is a very good value.

Well, I mean, yeah, but like almost no one should buy that.

It's true, but it's the biggest.

I do too.

Because I grew up in TextMate doing web development.

And TextMate... I mean, so did I. I know.

So TextMate is basically an IDE for web development, sort of.

It's a text editor that you can open a whole bunch of files in.