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

On 2025-03-19 15:50:32 +0000, Anonymous said:

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

On 2025-02-22, WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:

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.

 That's pretty common amongst Mac users. But claiming people who bought a
M4 Mac was "scammed" just because Apple dared to update the Mac line
with faster processors is downright loony. 🤔
 People who bought last year's Macs weren't scammed.  Apple just
refreshed some Macs, as usual.

 Wasn’t the big complaint that Apple updated their hardware too slowly?

Only by fools blinded by the silly "megahertz myth" asnd the geek brigade who always want a new shiny toy to play with.

Well, that’s not the case anymore. The refresh cycle is just a little too
fast now,

It isn't just Apple either. Samsung, etc. all update their devices every year (at least) with little more than minor tweaks and pointless gimmickry.
You then have most of the software developers that enforce their apps to only run on the latest and greatest hardware and operating systems.
Combined, that induces a constant enforced upgrade cycle (at least for those with more money than sense) and simply ends up with huge piles of perfectly good devices being thrown out as e-waste every year.

but if the performance gain is worth it I say “Go for it!”

Most users' needs are extremely simple and peak performance for them was reached years ago - there is a limit as to how fast you can type in MS Word or move the mouse cursor. They have no real need for today's massively fast devices, other than to keep it running at a decent speed despite all the unnecessary gimmicks companies keep adding to them.