I got a bonus at work and decided to spend it on a new Mac. I got on the Amazon website, and since I didn’t see any new desktop Macs for sale, I bought a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Ultra chip, 48G of Ram and 2 TB of storage (SSD) for $4,150.

It just arrived today, and I’ve connected it to a 32-inch monitor and an external keyboard and mouse, and here I sit, pretty impressed with the snappy performance compared to my ancient Mac Pro and iMacs.

But now I’m having some second thoughts...

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