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Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming Date: 23 Feb 2025 21:45:06 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 31 Message-ID: <m21j72FtmrU1@mid.individual.net> References: <vo0hjg$2hn1r$1@dont-email.me> <0001HW.2D6A8A590058AE2170000447738F@news.supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net xlYsHP6GHbmfYFiojww61gazRBUo8EyVExKrLd+KX6Xx+zs9tk Cancel-Lock: sha1:RfcQ9XM6r5ynSseGX9eCCdYHZtA= sha256:wKTG5IKABeWFMmLNvRIeMqD9Fy1rWkWtzg31IKYYAEw= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1<n@LQ!aZ7vLO_nWbK~@T'XIS0,oAJcU.qLM dk/j8Udo?O"o9B9Jyx+ez2:B<nx(k3EdHnTvB]'eoVaR495,Rv~/vPa[e^JI+^h5Zk*i`Q;ezqDW< ZFs6kmAJWZjOH\8[$$7jm,Ogw3C_%QM'|H6nygNGhhl+@}n30Nz(^vWo@h>Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Bytes: 2283 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. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR