I would pay 2x or even 3x for this with working Asahi Linux patches provided in source code form on Apple's site.

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Still using the M1 Macbook Air for 4K video editing on Davinci Resolve and Photo Editing with Darktable (open source). Just 8GB of Ram too and I've never really needed more. Obviously these new versions are great but even the original is not too shabby.

I need 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD suddenly having been more than comfortable with 16GB and 256GB respectively. My agents have sessions which have workteees and scratchpads and simulators and build runs and test suites and wow. The hours I’ve been spending for memory swaps and quad simulator calls to run through. I am compelled to view a $4k machine as a necessity. Also a cool thing about M5 Pro is that it’s very close to Max on the CPU performance side with identical core count if you get the 18 core variant. The Pro’s Geekbench scores are also in similar ballpark as the Max. You rather get the Pro for most use cases and use the extra cash on RAM.

This is going to be great with Asahi

does it run linux?

i hope they're not launching that touch stuff... just stick with these pls

Did they figure out how to fit an LTE modem into it?

But can it run Omarchy :)

Anyone designing their own macbook clone using llms yet?