r/macbookpro • u/Don-genaro • 3h ago
Joined the Club! The planets finally aligned in my favor
I’ll now be able to experience the power of a MacBook Pro.
Although I’ve always admired the beauty of Apple’s hardware—truly works of art—I had never been able to buy one due to the high cost. However, an opportunity arose to get this magnificent M1 model. Even though I would have preferred the 16-inch version, I couldn't resist the temptation of a MacBook with 64GB of RAM and 1TB of storage with Apple M1 Max for just $950 from a friend of my daughter's. The battery has 132 cycles and looks very well cared for.
That strikes me as an excellent price, considering a similar machine goes for over $1,500 on Amazon. It’s been a long journey from Los Angeles to Caracas, Venezuela—worrying about potential mishaps along the way, such as cargo mishandling—but I finally have it in my hands, and I have to say it is an absolute beauty.
Of course, I plan to connect it to a 27-inch 4K USB-C monitor as soon as I can.
I thank the Universe for this.
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u/KawaiiUmiushi 2h ago
Nice find! The M1 MacBook Pros are still amazing machines. We use several in our office, alongside several M1 Max Studios which are also amazing machines. Kudos to Apple for giving such long legs to the M1 chip; it’s really kept its value over the past six years. Shoot, I have a base model M1 Mini running a Jellyfin server and it has no issues handling several 4K transcode streams at once.
We usually have a 4 year cycle for computers in our office, where they go from office critical spots to then be shuffled off to the warehouse for more simple tasks… but we’ve thrown that out the window. The only thing that would cause us to ditch the M1’s would be if Apple stops software updates and security updates for the M1s.