Review: Apple's hyper-pricey M5 Ultra Mac Studio made me into a vibe coder

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9 Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav This spring, Apple made it official: The Mac Pro is dead .

When Apple was using Intel processors and AMD GPUs, the idea of an expandable and upgradeable tower made sense. But Apple Silicon chips bring the CPU, GPU, and memory interface all under one roof in a way that makes that sort of upgradeability not just superfluous but impossible. At least not without breaking some of the chips’ key benefits.