
Don't Buy the Mac Studio M5 Max Yet! I Tested OpenAI Dots + Codex Cloud
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My Mac kept running out of memory, so I started planning a new Mac Studio M5 Max: about A$5,700. Before buying it, I tried one change first. A Dot in ChatGPT coordinates the jobs, and the coding runs in Codex Cloud. Test 1: several jobs at once. Test 2: are the results usable? My verdict: not yet.
First-hand video: the creator's Mac ran out of memory, and before spending A$5,700 on a Mac Studio M5 Max, they ran a 4-step test with a Dot coordinating dev jobs while the coding runs in Codex Cloud. Shows several jobs running at once, checks the results are usable, and concludes the expensive upgrade can wait — a concrete saved-expense result. Disclosed in the video: they received a one-time 62,500 usage-credit grant (stated value US$2,500) as an existing ChatGPT Pro subscriber; not cash, not part of the A$5,700 comparison.



