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by al_borland 179 days ago
They upgraded everything to start with at least 16GB of RAM to support Apple Intelligence as that continues to roll out.

3 years may or may not be the service life of these things. I still have an M1 Pro MacBook Pro from 2020. Sometimes I think it’s time for an upgrade, but there is no reason to. The hardware I interact with is basically the same, and the M1 Pro still does whatever I need with ease. The AppleTV I’m using right now is 10 years old and running tvOS 26.

Also keep in mind that Apple is similarly priced to other products in the same class, so you would have spent the money either way. At least Apple stuff tends to have a higher resale value.