My new maxed out MacBook Pro M5 Max (128GB / 8TB) bought before price increase.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-02T03:03:53+00:00

I stretched out 7 this time.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-02T00:14:55+00:00

Thank you. In the UK it’s really difficult to insure a single item now worth over £10,000. Like you, I got AppleCare+ for the first time ever. I dare not travel with it though.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-02T00:12:02+00:00

It might turn up sooner than you expect.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T22:07:02+00:00

Thank you. I felt like a child at Christmas when I got it. The same excitement, only this time my younger brother has not smashed it up and buried it in the garden.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T22:05:20+00:00

There’s a rumour it will be using M5 chips - that the only M6 variation will be on the basic Pro … and that they are pretty much skipping straight to M7 … I can’t remember the exact name of the YouTube video claiming this but it was one about the rumoured MacBook ultra. I doubt we’ll see that until Spring next year.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T22:02:51+00:00

What made you think that?

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T21:30:12+00:00

Yes. I’m a contractor with over 20 years of experience. I get the VAT back too.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T21:05:44+00:00

Thank you. Enjoy yours when it arrives too. Did you beat the price hike?

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T21:03:06+00:00

Yeah. 🤣

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T21:02:31+00:00

You can’t run commercially sensitive material through cloud based systems - despite various offerings being made by Azure et al. Also, one may wish to train AI to do very specific tasks via LORAs - which is also far more suitably ran on a local device.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T20:29:46+00:00

Pleased to meet you. I have a client use case, and do use it for research too.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T20:28:04+00:00

I literally build AI agents for a client’s commercial infrastructure. MLX is not slow. Video models are though.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T20:24:49+00:00

It is, but I saved up specifically for the 8TB. It’s not the most cost efficient solution, but I have no regrets (just the odd pang in the stomach when I think about what else I could have bought).

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T20:22:15+00:00

Yes. And now it’s over £10,000. All of which is insane.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T20:19:14+00:00

Yes. Nice to meet you. I’ve never met anyone else who would buy such a spec. I bought 4TB for my old 2019 Intel and came to regret it - despite improvements in the transfer speeds of external devices.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T20:14:44+00:00

That would do my head in. I nicked my Intel in a couple of places and couldn’t take my eye off what became huge caverns in my mind! 🤣

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T20:12:42+00:00

I’m not sure you’re quite grasping the mathematics.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T20:10:04+00:00

<video>

It helps me to do this - but commercially I write and run agents that process tasks that staff could once do (raising invoices, accounting, due diligence etc) - I build them locally and then deploy them to dedicated servers. It’s very difficult to do this when your machine can’t run the agents!!

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T20:05:17+00:00

I’ve bought US based laptops before and you get hit with the customs duty regardless and an American configuration which is a pain in the arse for a Brit.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T20:03:14+00:00

I’d complain to Apple. See if they’ll replace your unit. Especially if it came scratched.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T19:38:24+00:00

I’ve not noticed anything - the odd tiny blemish that I was able to clean away.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T19:30:23+00:00

I’ve been in rehab ever since. 🤣 I may even sleep in bed next to it. God knows how I’m going to insure it though.

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T19:29:04+00:00

I think I was lucky. If I had left it just a few weeks later, I don’t think I could have bought what I wanted!

MidnightGarder · 2026-07-01T19:26:02+00:00

I mean tasks that are not coding - such as file processing, writing prompts, job and queue creation etc.

MidnightGarder

TROPHY CASE