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Subject: Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:43:02 +1300
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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.