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by mostlysimilar 594 days ago
I'm happy that Apple continues to push forward, but I suspect my M1 Max from 2021 will last me a decade or more. It's just a beast of a machine.

I hope they're also working on redesigning the MacBook Pro to feature a display without a notch. I'd buy that instantly.
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wwalexander 594 days ago
Seriously, I keep waiting for the FOMO to kick in but the M1 is still so great that I don’t have any.

The only hiccups I ever have are resolving Swift result builder types…perhaps SwiftUI is just a big ploy to burn up all the extra CPU cycles.

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alexjplant 594 days ago
I held onto my M1 Air for almost 4 years and only upgraded because the LCD somehow developed some random screen-dooring issues. It was always completely capable for what I needed though I do appreciate the additional real estate afforded by its 15" M3 replacement.
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skohan 593 days ago
I was a huge Swift fan but SwiftUI and the changes supporting it in the language got me to switch to Rust for all my personal projects
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wwalexander 592 days ago
I’ll admit the builder DSL stuff is a bit of a Turing tarpit for me. I may have wasted the day yesterday trying to implement a BNF grammar DSL.
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sbrother 594 days ago
Same. I can't imagine much heavier use than what I have done to this thing for the past 3+ years, and it still just literally does everything I ask of it. I've never even kept a laptop this long; up until now I would upgrade every two years since it's my primary money-making tool. But I have zero reason to upgrade currently.
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grahamj 594 days ago
Yep. I moved from an M1 Air to M2 MBP but only for RAM and creature comforts (size, display, sound etc.)

Even on the fanless Air performance was more than enough for the moderate dev work I threw at it.

iPhones have been more powerful than they needed to be for years; it's great to see this phenomenon in Macs.

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JumpCrisscross 594 days ago
> I suspect my M1 Max from 2021 will last me a decade or more

I’m still happy on my 2020 M1 normie MacBook Pro.

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Gigachad 594 days ago
I had one of those for work, recently got one of the newer MacBooks and the performance feels the same to me. Both were flawless.

What did change is almost everything else. Much better speakers, more ports, more external displays, no Touch Bar and probably some other stuff I forgot. Not worth buying a new laptop over though.

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