Tag: MacBookProM2Max

The new M2 Max MacBook Pro arrived today…

Even the shipping box is an origami masterpiece designed to protect the laptop box, which is another origami masterpiece… Apple just loves to engineer things.

It took about an hour to transfer my life from the M1 to the M2, and with that most of the security stuff transferred as well – so I don’t have to re-authenticate a thousand websites.

My Adobe account, my Microsoft account for work, and the profile from Fastmail (my personal email provider) needed to be reauthenticated / reinstalled, but everything else seems to have made the move without issue.

Now to find something to watch in 4K on the monitor, which is now running at 120hz and TOSLinked to my stereo. 😀

Listening to "Fahrenheit" by Neon Nox

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'