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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.
>
>
> Forget the M4, the M5 iPad Pro and Macs
> are on track for release this year
>
> <https://www.macworld.com/article/2599225/rumor-claims-an-m5-ipad-pro-and-macs
> -are-on-track-for-this-year.html>
>
> Apple really needs to slow down and stop making continual minor tweaks
> (and gimmicky additions) to their products every year. All that does is
> piss off the customer who just bought something and cause most people
> to not bother buying the next new toy because another one will be
> released soon. Apple also needs to simplify their over-complicated
> product line-up, ditch the non-repair / non-upgrade designs, and get
> rid of the silly MacOS codenames. Time to bring back Steve Jobs again!
> ;-)