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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [NEWS] M4 is dead ... M5 is coming
Date: 23 Feb 2025 21:45:06 GMT
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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. 

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