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Everyone who profited from AI boom has upgraded their macbooks already. The rest can go back to putting fries in the bag.

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Man, I wouldn't upgrade my M1 Air to the latest Air for free, it feels as fast as the day I got it, and upgrading's a huge chore.

My work machine went from an M1 with 32GB to an M4 with 24GB and it definitely wasn't worth the time to upgrade.

You haven’t tried upgrading recently. It is incredibly easy.

Pretty sure I'll spend the next year tripping on random things like "how did I change where my screenshots save to, again?" and all kinds of other tiny papercuts. The people I know who change machines more often have complicated scripts to do various things with their dotfiles but I'm not that clever.

It literally all gets transferred with the backup.

I went from an m1 MacBook to m5 earlier this year. It was almost too smooth - I just felt like I had the same computer and not a new one. Which in a way was disappointing.

I build AI agent runtimes for a living. That doesn’t mean I like to set my money on fire due to the current supply and demand mismatch.

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