As is tradition for me; new year, new Mac.
Apple is giving me a bit over $1300 in trade for my current M1 Max laptop, so the New Hotness is only running me $2200 and change… Happy Birthday to me I suppose.
I talked myself out of the upgrade a couple of times because processing-wise it’s only a twenty percent bump or so, which is hard to justify $2000 on – but it also has WIFI 6e and HDMI 2.1 and that cinched the deal…
Wifi 6e is the new 6Ghz band, which not only goes faster but is less susceptible to the hundreds of 2.4/5Ghz routers in the area (and the microwave in the kitchen).
And HDMI 2.1 is the 48Gbit standard that will allow me to run my new 48″ monitor at 120hz, which is a marked image quality improvement.
Oh, and the extra GPU grunt in the M2 Max will be a nice bump in my gaming FPS.
So, yeah – new Mac in a week – which is par for the course.
Listening to "Synthetic Nights" by Marvel83'