Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming

On 2025-02-22 22:42:33 +0000, WolfFan said:

On Feb 5, 2025, Your Name wrote
(in article <vo0hjg$2hn1r$1@dont-email.me>):

 If you just bought a new M4 iPad or Mac, then you've been scammed. The
new M5 chips are coming this year ... and no doubt the M6 will arrive
next year.

 Hmm. I bought an M2 iPad Air. It was fast enough, and, more importantly,
cheap enough, for my purposes. In a few years I’ll probably replace it with
whatever'€™s current then.
 This is being typed on a 2014 Mac mini. It still works. I will probably be
replacing it with a M4 unit later this year, and will keep that one for a
decade, too.
 I have no particular desire for new shiny, as long as current systems work.

I used my old beige G3 PowerMac for 20 years from new before it finally broke with a motherboard fault and had to be replaced - all of that time I was also using the internet via a dial-up modem. My car is 30 years old and I've had it for 26 years. Our clothes dryer (not often used) is around 45 years old and still working fine.  :-)
A lot of people complain about "planned obsolesence", but the reality is it is more a case of "enforced obsolesence" because you can't get the parts to repair things (and in Apple's case, a fad of devices that can't even be repaired / upgraded) or more usually people's own simple greediness to own the latest toy on the block even though their current device / car / etc. is perfectly fine.