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Marco Arment

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

You can get the 18-core CPU, 20-core GPU at 24, 48, or 64 gigs RAM, which is new.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

That was what forced my hand on the Max in the past, is that I always wanted 64 gigs RAM, and now I wouldn't have to, to both of your points earlier.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

John Gruber pointed out, this means the price for a MacBook Pro with 64 gigs of RAM, if that's your main concern, hello, dropped by $800 year over year.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Last year, you needed to buy one of the high-end M4 Max chips to get the 64 gigs.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

That's very good news.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

However, it comes with an SSD of one, two, or four terabytes, no half terabyte option, which means for me and my fancy lad eight terabytes, I'm back in the M5 Max.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And then the M5 Max, you can do with the 32-core, you get 36GB of RAM and you will like it.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

For the 40-core, you can do 4864 or 128GB of RAM.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

SSD in 2, 4, or 8TB...

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And then between the two of them, all of them share the same screen, which is unchanged for the M4 Pro and Max.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

1,000 nits, up to 1,600 peak on HDR, 120 hertz, nanotexture is $150.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

It has the N1 with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Size and weight is unchanged, port's unchanged.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Uh, battery is largely unchanged, although slightly different, uh, amounts of video streaming and wireless web, which is their, you know, ridiculous, uh, metrics.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

All right.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And then the microphone quotes voice isolation and wide spectrum microphone modes for enhanced voice clarity in audio and video calls.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

All right.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The environment story is largely the same as the M4 Pro and Max.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

However, new is that it's made with 45% recycled content and manufactured, again, with 50% renewable electricity.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The price for the M5 Pro and M5 Max starts at $1,700 for the 14-inch and $2,700 for the 16-inch.