Got my first Macbook M5 MAX and it's absolutely insane
Four years ago, I used to dream of owning a MacBook. And today, I finally got one.
So, I was saving money to buy a MacBook Pro M5 Pro 16-inch with 48GB of RAM ($3,599, which is around ₹3.4 lakh). But about two weeks ago, I found out that Apple had increased the prices of some of their products, and the MacBook Pro 16-inch 48GB, which was $3,599, had jumped to $4,549. That's almost a freaking $1,000 increase.
I tried contacting Apple-authorized stores like Chroma and Reliance, but they just wanted to take advantage of the situation. They kept telling me it was out of stock and asked me to come back after a week.
I was really confused and didn't know what to do because I simply couldn't justify paying an extra $1,000. That would've absolutely fried tf out of me.
So I contacted a bunch of Apple resellers, but none of them had the MacBook Pro with 48GB of RAM. Luckily, I found one store that still had the 16-inch M5 Max at the old price (around $4,500), although they weren't offering a student discount.
At that point, I figured that instead of waiting and paying $4,549 for the Pro variant, I might as well get the Max model for the old price. So yeah, I bought it on the 4th of July.
And it's absolutely INSANE. It's easily 2–3× faster than my Windows laptop, and After Effects runs incredibly smoothly without any throttling!!!