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Going from the M1 to M4 is barely worth the upgrade, is it really such a big deal it's been 4 months since the last MacBook Air SoC upgrade and it'll be another
by zamadatix 2y ago
Going from the M1 to M4 is barely worth the upgrade, is it really such a big deal it's been 4 months since the last MacBook Air SoC upgrade and it'll be another ~4 months until the next round releases on its usual schedule anyways? It's not like the iPad stole away time from the MacBook cadence by releasing first.
- paulmd 2y agoN3B is such a poorly-yielding node that it’s worth actively pushing up the release cycles and get people onto the next product, which will use N3E instead.
- daft_pink 2y agoWhile I agree that it doesn’t make sense to upgrade from M1 to M4 in many cases, imagine you want to purchase a two Mac Studios that are $4k-$5k each, because you need better monitor support and i/o, but you can only purchase a really old M2 model and all the Laptops are M3 perform better but lack some i/o and the iPad is M4. It’s super nice that they overengineer everything and that’s why I buy Apple products to be honest, but they should roll out their chips in a sensible way and not leave their most expenses products at the tail end to upgrade right before their release their next chip. Plus I think that it makes sense to wait for the M4, because it will have enough TOPs to support their future AI endeavors and will have a much longer useful life than purchasing and M2 studio today.