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Apple going to have a hard time getting people with M1 macs to upgrade any time soon.

Yeah I used a 2012 MacBook Pro 15" Retina until 2017 when the overheating and throttling of it in summer became just unbearable, upgraded again in quick succession due to the crappy keyboard, thermals and battery of the successors, and then finally settled on the 16" M1 Pro.

If the 2012 lasted me 5 years back then, this M1 Pro should last at least as long since the things that drove me to upgrade from the 2012 (mainly thermals) are not a problem with this machine.

I had a 2015 MBP that was falling apart and waited for the M2 refresh. I expect that I won’t get another laptop until 2030.

I have an iPhone 11 (fall 2019) and I see no reason to upgrade.

It does feel like we’ve hit a plateau. The only step up I can see would be on-device ML/“AI” models. Removing the latency and improving offline capabilities of something like Siri would open some doors.

Yeah. On-device ML. Cameras are also still improving YoY as more people abandon standalones. But while I'm usually on a 3 year cycle, I'd have to be convinced with this year's model.

And I may slide in a Mac Mini/Studio in place of my iMac at some point, I'm not really in a hurry in spite of being out of OS update support. It's basically a browser machine given I have a newish laptop.

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