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If you're not upgrading to an M4 Mac, what system are you sticking with?

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27" iMac, i9, 32 GB, 5700 XT. It could do with a spring clean (might need new thermal paste) but it otherwise does the job. With that said, I'm certainly not buying another all-in-one given how difficult it is to work on it.
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My wife has the same, she uses it professionally. It slightly higher spec, 128GB RAM, 2TB SSD and a nano-textured display. It's a beast! Great machine.

We use TurboBoostSwitcher with TB always OFF, so that the fans stay quiet. No noticeable performance changes. She uses GPU for 3D rendering.
 
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14 inch M1 Max 64GB. I’m still amazed at all I can throw at it. No issues with music production or c++ development.

The latest benchmarks are cool, but I’ll wait until there is a real bottleneck in my workflow.
 
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My personal computer is a 16” MacBook Pro with M2 Max and 32GB of ram, whereas for work I have a 14” MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and 32GB of ram.
I’m a mobile developer working with React Native, and feel no need to ask my employer for an M4 machine.
 
Early 2011 17" MBP with the CTO i7 (2820QM), 16 GB of ram and a new SSD
unfortunately the gpu already died when I got this machine, but HD3000 is holding everything together well, even on Sonoma
probably gonna get a used 16" M1 Pro next year, if I could snag one for under 600$
 
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The Cockney Rebel said:
I have an M2 MBA & an M2 MBP.

Don't really feel the need to upgrade.

You?
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I'll probably buy a mac mini M4 just for the sake of experimentation - I want to cross it with custom water cooling and a more spacious and ventilated case. And probably scalping the chip cover of the M4.
 
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I have a 16” MBP M2 Max with 64 Gig of Ram. It is my work computer. I need the 16” screen to be able to open at least two documents for use and comparison. It does everything I need for now. I was going to keep it for about 10 years before upgrading, but now that they upgrade the chip yearly (for now). I may upgrade sooner. If in about five years, the processor is twice as fast as my M2 Max and the MBP is lighter than what I have, I may go ahead and upgrade.
 
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M1 Pro MacBook Pro
M1 Max Studio
iMac Pro

I can't justify an upgrade at this time as what I have now more than meets my needs. More battery life would be nice but one of the main programs I use will be going native AS, probably in a year which should fix that.

The M4 Macs look great but I'll see what things look like when M6 comes out along with the rumored MacBook Pro design update.
 
14" MBP is still going strong. I just purchased an M4 Pro Mac mini to compliment my M1 MBP, and as awesome as the Mac mini is with all that power, I honestly don't see all that much difference in performance, though admittedly I don't use it for work or to do complex video/photo editing.
 
After 12 years with an 11" i7 MacBook Air, my 6 month old 14" M3 Pro still feels like new. I don't envisage replacing this for a decade, though I do plan to get a Mac mini for my home office at some point in the future.
 
16” M1 Max Mac Book Pro, 10-Core CPU, 32 Core GPU, 64GB of RAM, 4TB SSD. I bought it Refurbished from Apple in December 2022, and I have Apple Care Plus until December 2025. My M1 Max is fantastically fast, dead-silent, Has superb Battery Life, has a Great amount of RAM and Storage,and thus, I have no need for any type of update, as fast as the M4 Macs are.
 
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Started using Macs with the old Apple //e computers in middle school late last century...

Most "recent" Mac I have had was a Late 2009 MacBook6,2 with a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and Nvidia 9400M graphics; I upgraded it to 16GB of RAM, a 120GB SSD, and a 320GB HDD...

Current rig is a 3900X CPU/2070 GPU/32GB RAM/1TB NVMe SSD sitting in a Lian-Li TU150 chassis...

I would love to see Apple put out an all-new Mac Cube of some sort...! ;^p
 
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Still satisfied with my MacBook Air15” M2 & Studio Display even though the FOMO is killing me. I usually upgrade every year. However, I recently retired simply don’t need the MBP and find myself using my iPad Pro and my Kindle more often lately.
All that said, please tell me to remove the MBP 14“ from my Apple Shopping cart!
 
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pshufd said:
Just wait for the M6 - complete redesign. It's going to be epic!
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Seriously dude, the M48 will blow them all away! Petaflops of processing poweer, 2048 cores, 16Exabytes of storage ON CHIP, and powered by a single AAA battery that lasts a month. We’re so excited to bring you this incredible product from our amazing folks buried in the fab plant. Ordering opens Friday, deliveries soon after in early Spring of 2119.
 
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I was thinking of upgrading my base M1 Pro MBP 14" with 512 GB SSD for a base M4 MBP 14", but with 1 TB SSD.

But, after seeing reviews and benchmarks, I will wait for a model with both substantially better CPU and also GPU (base M1 Pro 14" GPU is faster than base M4 14" GPU).

And, Wi-Fi 7. They're already Wi-Fi 7 APs in my office and even Wi-Fi 7 devices connected to them (Notebooks and phones). So, I will not spend that amount of money on older tech.

Probably next year will be BIG on updates for me. My almost entire Apple lineup would be upgraded. :) (iPhone 17 Pro Max, M5 MBP, M5 iPad Pro, Apple Watch 11).
 
My other Mac that I treasure, that’s irreplaceable, is the last iMac , the 2020, i9, 3.6 GHz, Nano-texture Screen, 5700XT 16GB of VRAM, 8TB SSD, with the RAM upgradeable and I have 64GB. It was the last I saw available on Apple Refurbished, and although not as fast as a M-Series would possibly be, I love the speed,Screen, and it has a T2 Chip which is on the last upgrade cycle, probably. I don’t want any type of separate desktop and Monitor unless I had the need for an upgradeable Mac Pro, and I don’t.
 
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I try to be pragmatic due to cost constraints as long as Apple is still supporting a device with software updates that is good enough for me. Just updating my daughters Macbook Air's to M1 from old Intel silicon then we are done.

All iPads, iPhones, Mac's and Apple TV's all running the latest software. Except for me of course! Poor old Dad has to make do with a 2015 11" MacBook Air.
 
I’m more than satisfied with my 15“ M2 MacBook Air. In fact i upgraded from a 2018 MacBook Pro, I don’t regret it. Apple Siicon has been great, far better than any Intel Mac i‘ve had in the past.
 
M1 Pro 16" MBP and M2 Pro Mini. Both with 32Gb RAM and 1 Tb storage. I can't see any reason to upgrade until Apple Intelligence does something useful and requires a later chip.
 
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