Canceled Order

[Fishrrman]

I would not spend $4k-5k on ANY computer unless it was used to produce income and the cost could be depreciated as a business expense.

That's not to say I couldn't afford it. But... I just don't see that as a wise use of one's money.

Having said that...
If the OP lives in an area where brick-n-mortar Apple Stores exist, is there the possibility of finding an in-stock, but "lesser-equipped" model that can be bought immediately?

"A bird in the hand..."

 

[pasamio]

It will smoke the M1 Max.

This is totally true! At more than double the power draw to that thing it totally smoking! The disappointing thing is that it only improved video encode by a couple of seconds, only manages an up to 6% increase in performance measured by Geekbench and even on it's best score it's only 30% for Cinebench, something is definitely smoking. Also don't forget your power brick: 15 hrs for the Mac vs 4 hours for the Raider. Maybe 30% for Cinebench is worth the couple of hundred you save in trade off for lower battery life, larger and heavier device and louder cooling under load...and having to deal with Windows or however many hours it'll take to turn it into a Hackintosh that will like perform worse anyway because none of the hardware is directly supported by macOS.

Realistically buy the device that does what you need. If you need macOS, buy the Mac. If you want to play PC games, get the Windows laptop.

ref: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-core-i9-12900hk-outpaces-apple-M1-max-but-theres-a-catch

 

[Danfango]

If you want to play PC games, build a desktop PC. I've got a $4000 Dell XPS laptop here with an RTX 2060 in it and it hibernates after 10 minutes due to thermal event if you actually stress it. It's also a complete ball ache to use and is really poorly built. If you pick it up the touchpad clicks because it bends so much. I await my corporate M1 Pro which will be turning up next month to replace it.

 

[Realityck]

WOW! almost 5 Grand!
You could get a 17 Inch i9 Alderlake 14 core Laptop with better graphics card for 3 grand.
Install macOS on it and run Windows 11 to boot!
It will smoke the M1 Max.

A bit cheaper if configured ($4300), but its 8.8 pounds. Almost a luggable.

 

[Realityck]

Good idea. In any case I finally did get someone to issue a new e-card for the amount I had “spent”/lost. And I’ll be getting a new MBP from BH in a matter of days instead of weeks/months. Alls well that ends well.

Good deal, hope everything is good for you from now on.

 

[2016]

Install macOS on it and run Windows 11 to boot!

It will smoke the M1 Max.

You can't install MacOS on anything above a 10th gen Intel processor.

 

[Analog Kid]

A bit cheaper if configured ($4300), but its 8.8 pounds. Almost a luggable.

Almost a 24” iMac.

 

[Tomb01]

Got the same email, when I 'chatted' with Apple they indicated it was in error and just fixed it. Kept my place in the queue...