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Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming

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On 2025-03-19 15:50:32 +0000, Anonymous said:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-02-22, WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
>>> On Feb 5, 2025, Your Name wrote
>>> (in article <vo0hjg$2hn1r$1@dont-email.me>):
>>>> 
>>>> If you just bought a new M4 iPad or Mac, then you've been scammed.
>>>> The new M5 chips are coming this year ... and no doubt the M6 will
>>>> arrive next year.
>>> 
>>> Hmm. I bought an M2 iPad Air. It was fast enough, and, more
>>> importantly, cheap enough, for my purposes. In a few years I’ll
>>> probably replace it with whatever’s current then.
>>> 
>>> This is being typed on a 2014 Mac mini. It still works. I will
>>> probably be replacing it with a M4 unit later this year, and will keep
>>> that one for a decade, too.
>>> 
>>> I have no particular desire for new shiny, as long as current systems
>>> work.
>> 
>> That's pretty common amongst Mac users. But claiming people who bought a
>> M4 Mac was "scammed" just because Apple dared to update the Mac line
>> with faster processors is downright loony. 🤔
>> 
>> People who bought last year's Macs weren't scammed.  Apple just
>> refreshed some Macs, as usual.
> 
> Wasn’t the big complaint that Apple updated their hardware too slowly?

Only by fools blinded by the silly "megahertz myth" asnd the geek 
brigade who always want a new shiny toy to play with.



> Well, that’s not the case anymore. The refresh cycle is just a little too
> fast now,

It isn't just Apple either. Samsung, etc. all update their devices 
every year (at least) with little more than minor tweaks and pointless 
gimmickry.

You then have most of the software developers that enforce their apps 
to only run on the latest and greatest hardware and operating systems.

Combined, that induces a constant enforced upgrade cycle (at least for 
those with more money than sense) and simply ends up with huge piles of 
perfectly good devices being thrown out as e-waste every year.



> but if the performance gain is worth it I say “Go for it!”

Most users' needs are extremely simple and peak performance for them 
was reached years ago - there is a limit as to how fast you can type in 
MS Word or move the mouse cursor. They have no real need for today's 
massively fast devices, other than to keep it running at a decent speed 
despite all the unnecessary gimmicks companies keep adding to them.

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[NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-02-06 09:27 +1300
  Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-02-05 22:06 +0100
  Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Jay <jay@jay.xyz> - 2025-02-14 05:22 +0000
    Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-02-14 19:39 +1300
      Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-02-14 08:50 +0100
  Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2025-02-22 17:42 -0500
    Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-02-23 13:43 +1300
      Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-02-23 05:25 +0100
    Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2025-02-23 21:45 +0000
      Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Anonymous <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-19 15:50 +0000
        Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-03-20 10:28 +1300
          Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Johnny LaRue <xxxxxx@yyyyyy.zzz> - 2025-03-19 23:44 -0400
            Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-03-20 18:45 +1300

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