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Marco Arment

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Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

It supports up to two external displays, each of which can be either 6K at 60Hz, like your ancient Pro Display XDR, or 4K at 144Hz.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Or you could go one display up to 8K at 60Hz, 5K at 120Hz, or 4K at 240Hz.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The environment story is the same as the M4 we talked about earlier.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

What was that, the iPad?

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Oh, I'm sorry.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Thank you.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And so anyways, and then new with the environmental stuff is that it's manufactured with 50% renewable electricity.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Pricing, $1,100 for 16 gigs RAM, half terabyte SSD, a core GPU, which is insane.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

down $100 from the M4 with a half terabyte SSD, which is stunning, and up $100 from the M4 with 256 gig SSD.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Right, and then RAM upgrades seem to be priced the same as before, to go from $16 to $24 is an additional $200, to go from $24 to $32 is an additional $200.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

All right, they've also announced the M5 Pro and M5 Max.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The M5 Pro and M5 Max are built using a new Apple-designed Fusion architecture.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The innovative design combines two dies into a single system on a chip, which includes a powerful CPU, scalable GPU, media engine, unified memory controller, neural engine, and Thunderbolt 5 capabilities.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The M5 Pro and Max feature a new 18-core CPU architecture that includes six of the highest-performing core design, now called Super Cores, that are the world's fastest CPU core.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Alongside those cores are 12 all-new performance cores optimized for power-efficient multi-threaded workloads.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Can you please?

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The industry-leading super core was first introduced as performance cores in M5.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

which also adopts the super core name for all M5 based products.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

So they've retconned the plain Jane M5.