2026-09-24 22:45 UTC
The one thing more interesting than new desktop hardware is the Apple “Lease” program, which isn’t a lease at all. It’s basically 42 months 0% interest purchase program. In other words a good deal.
Actually signing up for the plan feels half baked though, you go through the application and then have to enter a credit card # for it to get charged. Except that literally no major credit cards are supported by it. The only thing I could use was the Apple Pay card and I had to hunt for its CVV.
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@paul@tapbots.social 2026-09-25 05:37
As a long time member of the More is Moar Better team I wish I could justify the M5 Ultra. But Xcode just never seems to take advantage of the extra cores (for my projects) and with the price increase I really can’t do it this time around. If it was still $4k sure I’d have pre-ordered the base model. That being said my M1 Ultra did age a lot more gracefully than what I’m assuming a M1 Max would feel like today. I think around the upper teens of cores you hit an Xcode scaling wall very hard.