{"id":850,"date":"2026-02-02T11:02:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:48:57","slug":"new-mac-configurator-may-point-to-separate-cpu-and-gpu-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/new-mac-configurator-may-point-to-separate-cpu-and-gpu-options\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mac configurator may point to separate CPU and GPU options"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/New-Mac-configurator-may-point-to-separate-CPU-and-GPU-options.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> last week changed the way you buy a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a> online, removing the previous lineup of customizable pre-configured options and instead putting you straight into <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/01\/31\/apple-revamps-how-you-buy-a-mac-online-removes-preconfigured-options\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">configuring your spec from scratch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While at first glance this seems a somewhat strange thing to do, arguably making it a little more complicated for a non-tech buyer to choose their Mac, the change could provide support for a theory that Apple will allow you to separate CPU and GPU options when buying an M5 Pro or Max Mac \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,m5-macbook-pro,mac,macbook-air,macbook-pro\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1037534\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/02\/new-mac-configurator-may-point-to-separate-cpu-and-gpu-options\/#more-1037534\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple last week changed the way you buy a Mac online, removing the previous lineup of customizable pre-configured options and instead putting you straight into configuring your spec from scratch. While at first glance this seems a somewhat strange thing to do, arguably making it a little more complicated for a non-tech buyer to choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}