@siracusa not gonna lie you are the first person I thought of

@siracusa Now we know why they started offering leases.

@siracusa Ouch so the previous price increase was just to add a slight cushion to the actual price increase 😱

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Oh, has the new decade commenced, indeed?

@siracusa The M4 iMac i put in my recording studio is more power than i'll ever need for a goddamn decade and a half. 10 cores, 32GB of RAM, purchased before Trump's tariffs in 2024. The Intel i5 iMac I had in there prior worked fine until the new OSs broke it.

You don't need this, just air gap your shit and freeze it in time. The only updates to creative software like video editors, graphic design, audio workstations, etc. Is AI bloat that doesn't functionally improve UX.

@siracusa I learned recently that “Ultra” was the name for the Allied code breaking operation at Bletchley Park where the first electronic computer was developed during WWII. There is something nice about Apple using the term Ultra for its best chips (and best laptop??), albeit surely coincidental. [en\.wikipedia\.org/wiki/Ultra\…](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_(cryptography)

@siracusa I know how the next @atpfm is going to go.

@siracusa Indeed. Studio Ultra with 96 GB of RAM and 2 TB hard drive on order myself. Finally moving on from Intel (goodbye, 27" 2020 iMac).

@siracusa Is this the first new machine with their ‘lease’ option?

Also historically you’ve always wanted ‘mac pro’ level machines for options and longevity… but stuff’s changed… you’re now forced into dongletown, stuff’s super fast, even external storage. Would leasing make sense now, and just upgrade every 36 months, or keep a $8k machine for 7+ years?

Now that I’m retired, my m1 ultra is still ‘just fine’.

@siracusa 😭 😭 😭

@siracusa Baseline M5 ultra with 30-core CPU and 64-core GPU, 96GB of RAM, 8TB SSD = $8999. 16TB SSD would be 4000 bucks extra as would 256GB RAM.

@siracusa Finally a new Mac ₘᵢₙᵢ ₘ₅ Pro!

@siracusa you going to pre-order?

@siracusa but it’s a quad!