I have yet to understand myself why did I pay $2300 something for M4 Pro with 512gb storage. Like, for that kind of money, I should have gotten at least 1 TB.

My worst purchase thus far.

I went for an M4 Max, 128GB RAM and 2TB storage. My thinking is that we've crossed the rubicon of expecting tech to be orders of magnitudes faster a decade out. It won't be.

I expect this MacBook Pro (2024) to last a decade and inflation to eat away at value of cost/benefit of future purchases so I got the best one I could possibly afford. Meaning whatever entry level Apple laptop is available in 2034 will be only a small multiple faster than than my top of line 2024 one. I could be wrong as well but that's the dice roll.

> why did I pay

Indeed, why did you? Didn't you read product specs for a device that costs nearly 2-and-a-half grand?

The thing with storage is you pay for it immediately-but you get zero value from it until you cross the smaller size boundary.

When my 1TB had about 400GB on it, the extra space "was worthless" - but now it's useful (though I have my suspicions that most of the extra space is being taken up by cloud caches).

I paid for an M1 Max when it came out. It was like $4500 AUD at the time.

I mean its still a decent machine, but man, I can get an M5 now for just over half the price...

(oh dang that was like nearly 5 years ago now)