I would have loved to get the decrease in weight, but I bought my Macbook Pro 128 GB in March and the equivalent is now 50% more expensive, from 5000 to 7500. The memory price skyrocketing is so bad but I don't know if it will ever get better or if these prices are the best we will ever see again.
Those are completely disjointed things though, and one of them (price of RAM) is currently very-much outside Apple's control.
IF memory prices drop, apple product prices will likely drop. And it will stay lighter.
Apple never drops prices, never. It will go straight into their margin.
I have an M1 Max but I am not paying 50% more than a few months ago to upgrade.
I have bought Apple laptops since 2004 but I can’t justify the current extortionate pricing, so I’ll sit it out (permanently if need be).
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This makes no sense. What makes the owner of a 6 year old laptop less able to afford a new MacBook than the owner of a 2 or 3 or 4 year old laptop?
If anything, the longer you hold your laptop, the more you amortize the cost, and can more easily afford the next one.
Everyone who profited from AI boom has upgraded their macbooks already. The rest can go back to putting fries in the bag.
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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Hard to compare since the screen is significantly better and touch-capable.