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So much for the lifetime licenses.

16" Silver MacBook Pro MAX with nano screen, 128GB of ram and 8TB SSD is in my future.

The year after spending close to $7,500 on a fully speced M1 Ultra Mac Studio (128GB ram 8TB SSD), the Apple trade in value was $1,250 for the same spec M2 Ultra Mac Studio. Needless to say, I still have the M1 version. Not sure I would even consider the M4/5 next year. Apple must consider their products residual value pretty low on the totem pole and perhaps that is because they hope they will last just the factory warranty period.

I plan to look closely at a M4 Max 16" MacBook Pro laptop. But if the numbers are poor, I can survive with my 14" Max MacBook Pro (64GB 4TB SSD).

This iMac upgrade is just like the iPad mini v7 - do the least possible in a chip upgrade. Both of those devices also needed a base memory update for AI.

My M2 Pro mini sports 32GB of ram and could have been ordered with the 8TB SSD. So the M4 should be able to support 48 GB of ram

To date, Apple's hardware updates have been marginal at best and certainly not reflective of the engineering staff Apple pays every month. They wasted a fortune on the Headset debacle and are shutting down its production by year's end due to declining sales and no future for the product. It will be just like the car deal where billions were squandered.

Contemplating a M4 Max 16" MacBook Pro with an 8TB SSD in same case design as my M1 MBPro Max. I have a stand up base that would allow said laptop to host a 27" Studio Display in my office or be a desktop device in my Airstream.

A backlit full size keyboard would open my wallet