First time: M4 or M5

Dropping in to say that I bought the MacBook M5 in black.

Incredible increased the price to R26k. As soon as I saw that, I was like "Hell no". I showed them the sales paper so they had to honour it.

I'm still learning how to use this.

UPDATE: Extending to the IPAD is super cool.
 
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M5 also includes WiFi 7 and BT 6.0, and should have a faster SSD. Apple also usually gives 7 years of OS support, so you'd get another year.

Would consider it worth the R2k.
 
Jar-man said:
Dropping in to say that I bought the MacBook M5 in black.

Incredible increased the price to R26k. As soon as I saw that, I was like "Hell no". I showed them the sales paper so they had to honour it.

I'm still learning how to use this.

UPDATE: Extending to the IPAD is super cool.
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If it doesn't come with a charger, get a good charger for it. Anker or Ugreen would be the more common, better choices.
 
Mirai said:
If it doesn't come with a charger, get a good charger for it. Anker or Ugreen would be the more common, better choices.
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Or just use a >30W USB-C charger, which everyone probably has one lying around. I'm using my old Xiaomi 120W charger and it charges in no time. If you really want to use the magsafe cable then any >30W USB-C PD adapter will work...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Or just use a >30W USB-C charger, which everyone probably has one lying around. I'm using my old Xiaomi 120W charger and it charges in no time. If you really want to use the magsafe cable then any >30W USB-C PD adapter will work...
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Mirai said:

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Well obviously. Any decent phone charger is far from cheap, because the same thing applies to phones.

Edit: from Apple themselves. They wouldn't enable this if they didn't design for it...

 
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Lenny M said:
Personally, I wouldn't overthink the M4 vs M5.

For development, RAM is more important than the chip generation. Both the M4 and M5 are incredibly fast, and you'll notice extra RAM long before you notice the difference between those two chips.

Since both options are 16GB/512GB, I'd probably spend the extra R2k on the M5 for the longer lifespan. But if the choice was more RAM on an M4 vs less RAM on an M5, I'd take the extra RAM every time.

Either way, I think you'll be very happy coming from Windows.
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This. M4 24GB > M5 16GB
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Well obviously. Any decent phone charger is far from cheap, because the same thing applies to phones.

Edit: from Apple themselves. They wouldn't enable this if they didn't design for it...

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In South Africa, you will find cheaper brands and unbranded chargers. I would stay away from those for sensitive electronics like Macbooks, something you want to keep for 3-5 years as the guy said. If you want a stable power supply without ripples/fluctuations in current and which delivers the power, unless you can test this yourself with an oscilloscope, you would want to buy a better charger.

Apple doesn't design their machines to be infinitely fault tolerant, nobody does.
 
It used to be so nice that you got the best USB-C charge port shipped right there in the box…which is why I have Apple chargers all over my house.

Now it’s a bit of a bitter pill to swallow and buy separately.
 
SauRoNZA said:
It used to be so nice that you got the best USB-C charge port shipped right there in the box…which is why I have Apple chargers all over my house.

Now it’s a bit of a bitter pill to swallow and buy separately.
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It didn't help that their chargers were all weird standards too, eg the iPod chargers had Firewire ports in them so you needed that sort of cable. The Intel MBPs had Magsafe and you couldn't disconnect because the cable was part of the charger. Only with M generation of MBPs the charger actually has a USB type C socket into which you can insert any sort of Anker or Belkin cable.
 
Mirai said:
In South Africa, you will find cheaper brands and unbranded chargers. I would stay away from those for sensitive electronics like Macbooks, something you want to keep for 3-5 years as the guy said. If you want a stable power supply without ripples/fluctuations in current and which delivers the power, unless you can test this yourself with an oscilloscope, you would want to buy a better charger.

Apple doesn't design their machines to be infinitely fault tolerant, nobody does.
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Used my old Macbook M1 Air to test it on many Chinese chargers I had. Still going strong.
 
Smiggles said:
Used my old Macbook M1 Air to test it on many Chinese chargers I had. Still going strong.
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You're stressing your MBA's capacitors which can lead to premature failure and of course mains power can fluctuate too, so just because it works ok on that day doesn't mean it will work when ESKOM sh-ts itself. A cheap charger will pass more of that on. Also with ripple current the device will have to top up from batteries and that causes also degradation of batteries.

In life everything is a risk. You can get away with many things but if you're buying a device for R24K and you want to keep it for ages, cheapening out on a no name brand charger especially in SA where any kind of kuk can get imported, makes little sense.

Bwana already posted an excellent charger, 70W from a very reputable company.

Branded chargers also have additional safety features such as proper mains isolation.
 
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