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

[pshufd]

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.

I bought an iMac Pro three months ago when one popped up for sale locally. I had been looking for a 2020 iMac with an i7 or i9 and upgraded video. The 2017 iMac Pro is my favorite system though I also have an M1 Studio and an M1 Pro MacBook Pro. I do hope that Apple does an Apple Silicon iMac on par with the 27 inch iMacs one of these days.

 

[kschendel]

15" M2 Macbook Air and a 2019 27" iMac. I expect to run both until they die.

 

[bombardier10]

Here is an alternative to Mac Pro or Mac studio

 

[xraydoc]

Sticking with a 14/30-core M3 Max 14" MBP. More than fast enough for what I do and 36GB of RAM is sufficient for me. When I need more power, I'll likely be ready to upgrade for other reasons as well (display, ports, etc). So I'm good for now. And as interesting as Thunderbolt 5 is, it won't do much for me at the moment. I'm not running high-speed RAIDs or anything like that. I do have three external displays, but a TB4 dock plus one additional TB4 port on my MBP handles them without issue.

 

[flybass]

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.

Agree on Apple intelligence. I felt serious Fomo given my phone couldn’t support it, but then AI was released on my Mac… the summaries suck.