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I bought my M1 MacBook Pro not long after they were released. It's approaching 3 years old which is a pretty standard age for people to start looking at a repl
by rahoulb 3y ago
I bought my M1 MacBook Pro not long after they were released. It's approaching 3 years old which is a pretty standard age for people to start looking at a replacement - I guess that's why they're comparing it to the M1.
Slight tangent - even though the MBP has been struggling to handle my dev work (partly because the codebase I'm working on has grown significantly in the last two years) I won't be upgrading. Work bought me a MacStudio (M2 Max), which mainly runs headlessly on my desk (also running Homebridge and plugged into my big speakers for AirPlay). This means I'm keeping the MBP as my portable machine (using VSCode's remote extensions and/or CodeServer to do dev work from wherever). I also have a late-2015 27" iMac at the office (with OpenCore Legacy Patcher so it can run whatever the latest macOS is called nowadays). This also works perfectly well now all the hard stuff is done on the MacStudio - and the screen is still lovely. (My previous 27" iMac was in active service for 10 years, although it was almost unusable towards the end).
Another tangent - I bet that's why they're not doing the larger "pro" iMacs. If it weren't for VSCode Remote Extensions and OCLP, I would have ended up with a beautiful monitor that was essentially useless (as was my original 27" iMac). People who need that extra power should probably avoid all-in-ones and I won't be getting one again.
But for most people, who tend to have a single machine, a comparison to the 3 year old equivalent seems pretty fair to me.
- bee_rider 3y agoComparing against the device 2 generations back does seem to make more sense from a “should I upgrade” point of view, and seems like a fine thing to put in marketing slides (as well as comparisons vs current peers, since that’s relevant to the question of “what should I upgrade to.” The lackluster year-to-year is a bit of a bad sign WRT the long term trajectory, but they’ve been doing this successfully for quite a while, they’ve recovered from worse I suspect.
- dnissley 3y agoOldest MBPs with an M1 are from late 2021, so only 2 years old.
- rahoulb 3y agoThose were the redesigned M1 Max/Pro versions. Mine is the M1-with-touchbar (same design as the intel version) which was released at the same time as the M1 MacBook Air - late 2020.
- cesaref 3y agoHaving been all over the apple range over the years, the M1 Max Macbook Pro i'm currently using has been I would say the best of their laptops since the original G4 Powerbook. A couple of years into ownership of this machine, and it's been an excellent experience. I develop on it every day, and i've no need to upgrade it, so i'll wait for the M4 :)
- karolist 3y agoThis is the way, portable machine should have a good battery life, good screen and good keyboard for me, everything else gets done on a remote, network connected machine with gobs of RAM and Linux.
- Jaxan 3y ago> It's approaching 3 years old which is a pretty standard age for people to start looking at a replacement Is this really true? Three years sounds very new to me, and no one in their right minds would replace it.
- rraihansaputra 3y agoi think a lot of personal users are seeing what corporate does and mirroring them. 3 years is pretty standard for companies to switch their leased/fleet laptops for optimum returns. there's also the relatively static pricing of these and generally growing wages, making short upgrade times more common.