There’s a $300 gotcha in an M5 Max Mac Studio upgrade
There was a pleasant surprise in yesterday’s announcement of the Mac Studio with M5 Max chip : the starting price is unchanged from that of the M4 Max Mac Studio, at $2,499. However, if you want to upgrade the GPU, there is a gotcha in the cost of doing so – it will cost you $300 more than Apple’s website initially indicates …
Apple’s latest Mac Studio with M5 Max chip has an unexpected $300 cost when upgrading the GPU, according to the recent announcement. While the starting price remains the same as the M4 Max Mac Studio at $2,499, the hidden upgrade cost was only revealed by tech journalist John Gruber. The base model comes with an 18-core CPU and a 32-core GPU.
For those who want a more powerful GPU, an upgrade to a 40-core option is available for an additional $300. However, this upgrade also changes the memory selection from 32GB to 48GB, which costs another $300. Since you cannot increase the GPU cores without also increasing the memory, the total upgrade price becomes twice what it seems at $600.
Apple warns users of this when the upgraded chip is selected, but the information is displayed in a somewhat unclear manner.
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