All right, so Mike, here's the thing. Breaking news as we recorded the show, Apple has released a bunch of new stuff, which normally we don't talk about on this show, but we were about, we were chit-chatting before we went live. And we were starting to talk about this a little bit. And, you know, you had the good idea that maybe we should just have like our immediate reactions to what Apple is released this morning, which is Tuesday, March 3rd. Before the main event, basically. Right. We're, we're dealing with right now. So by the time you're listening to this show, you know everything. But also, by the time you listen to this show, you've definitely listened to one of mine and Casey's Tech Podcasts where we talk about the other thing more than these

things. So I guess we'll talk about these. Although, as you mentioned, who could know on your show?

You'll get yourself into a rabbit hole and just talk about like, uh, GPU, you know, and then like four

hours later, here we are. You're not wrong. Oh, you're so right. Also, let me quickly interrupt you just briefly and disclose. I am a little bit nasal, a little bit sick. It's not your speakers or it's not mics or Jims. It could also be your speakers, though. Maybe someone's speakers are broken as well. In such a way that it makes me and only me sound nasly. That is a possibility.

But anyway, apologies for that.

So, yeah, so Mike, literally like half an hour and hour before we started recording,

Apple has announced a few things that are of interest to me personally, and maybe you have

different interests.

They announced a new MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max.

How could that possibly be of interest to you?

Because that's the computer I have, basically, and I made the mistake of pricing what would be a replacement for my current computer, which is an M...

I'm not going to buy one.

I'm not going to buy it.

Listen, you're a technology news professional.

Why would you buy this computer?

You know what's coming.

Oh, yes, I know. Do you want to buy two of these in a year? Is that what you want to do?

Exactly right. I'm waiting for the fall. And if sitting here now, if they don't release the alleged forthcoming touchscreen MacBook Pro, then I might be fine with my M3 Max, which is really nice and is running really well. Yeah, I what are you possibly doing? In terms of purchasing a computer specifically or just pushing the M3 Max to the point where you're like, I need an M5 max? Oh, I absolutely don't.

There's nothing I'm doing. There's nothing I'm doing that necessitates this whatsoever.

That's the whole thing.

But I priced out what I would consider a reasonable facsimile of my current M3

max 14 inch MacBook Pro with the same RAM, same MSSD, although now with the addition

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