I always said to myself I wish I bought Apple Stock. In 2026, I wish I had stock piled more Apple hardware. Truly an appreciating asset outpacing the stock price.
I’m seriously blown away. 16" MacBook Pro + Nano-texture M5 Max chip with 18-core CPU, 40-core GPU 128GB unified memory 4TB SSD storage 40% increase over what I paid 2 months ago.
The M5 Max MacBook Pro I bought in April for $5,674.00 is now $8,149 on Apple.com. A $2475 increase in just 2 months. (Updated since I forgot to elect the 4TB SSD as well)
So if there’s an Apple product on Amazon with the old pricing, grab it now before they notice.
For the last 6 or so weeks, I’ve been considering buying my spouse a new laptop. Her M1 Pro is fine but it’s showing age. I just bought a 14" MacBook Pro for $2583.59 on BestBuy with 2 years included AppleCare+. That same machine is now $3199 on Apple.com.
I’m not really a Star Trek fan but 11 years ago I needed a huge coffee mug and this was cheap. I got so many questions from people about star trek. AFter 11 years, I’m pleased to finally be replacing it.
All of my Belgian glassware has been in storage for about five years. Finally have it all unpacked and put away some of these I forgot I had.
Moved in.
Moving home this weekend.
Gumby.
Paid off my truck today. One year early.
I reply to every YouTube comment.
“More reliable search indexing” This might get me to try Mail.app again. I’ve been on Outlook for 2 years because of how buggy Mail has gotten and I use search a LOT.
M5 Max is AMAZING. I pumped 1.6 terabytes of 4K videos into Macwhisper Pro which I’ve been running for years and the neural engine transcribed all 150 videos in 5 hours.
Also, even Apple’s fastest Pro chips are going to struggle with AI Features on images that are in the 50-60 megapixel range, right? Just guessing. we’ll have to see.
It looks good in a demo but still the majority of my photos in iCloud Photo Library were shot with my Canon R5 or Leica Q2 (RAW in Lightroom exported JPEG to Photos) I’m guessing a lot of these new AI features rely on the LiDar depth mapping feature to work?
Holy crap…callsheet on outro video! @caseyliss@mastodon.social YUGE.
Me in 2024 when I purchased an M4 iPad Pro with 1TB of storage “The 16GB of RAM should make the iPad a dream with Apple Inteligence as it launches over the next 9 months and future proof iPad updates as more features that require a lot of ram launch.” Every device I own can run OS …
WWDC Wish List - I want 2027 Apple software to leverage the remarkable M5 Max, M4 Pro and A19 Pro chips that power my devices to bring me local LLMs that can do just as much as foundational models from Anthropic / OpenAI.
Ice cream break
$500 quartz counter acquired. Replacing our butcher block.
I updated my MacBook Neo post from a month ago with a post from Ming-Chi Kuo today who is saying that Apple has doubled production capacity. So what is it? Is the device constrained or not?
Back from vacation. Busy week.
Sold my BMW 330 CI Convertible. Now to find a shipper.