I doubt the average consumer cares much about any upcoming M3. My wife's last laptop was a 2013 Macbook Air, and during lockdown I guess she decided she needed

I doubt the average consumer cares much about any upcoming M3. My wife's last laptop was a 2013 Macbook Air, and during lockdown I guess she decided she needed a new laptop so we got an M1 Air. She can definitely afford to upgrade annually. I expect that to last her until 2030 unless someone steps on it. My current travel laptop I purchased a couple weeks before covid hit, and besides struggling with most new indie games coming out, probably won't upgrade it before 2025 and I used to consider myself a "power user". As long as vscode and chrome continue to run a rock-solid 60fps in Linux, I don't have much incentive to upgrade. I used to need to upgrade every 2-3 years to stay on the curve but it's such a long tail now, it's usually a hardware failure that necessitates upgrade, rather than technology itself.