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I didn’t see a reason to upgrade and I feel I am their audience here, I own the last one.

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TBF I had the Macbook from 2015 before I felt like upgrading to the M1 in 2021. You usually buy Macs every year?

Almost no-one do, however there is a bunch that buys new cars and flip them all the time!

Well, the previous Pro came out in 2019 (and the model before that 2013). Every four years is not unreasonable.

https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1...

First/last Mac Studio was released in 2022 which is I thought what we were talking about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Studio

I did get an Apple Silicon MacBook 18 months or so ago but my 2015 MacBook Pro is still fine for pretty much everything except ML and video/image processing.

Or anything that requires a quieter, fan-noise-less environment that doesn't burn your lap on direct skin contact. But yeah, the 2015 MBP was a truly great model that precedes soldered RAM and USB-C-only port selection.

Yeah, it predated the infamous butterfly keyboard and touch bar. Mine did have to have its screen replaced (which Apple extended the warranty on because of a manufacturing issue) and I've also had a new battery installed but it still works pretty well on my dining room table for day to day purposes (which are mostly web-based use of some sort).

But it's got a lot of miles on it. No complaints.

> 2015 MBP was a truly great model that precedes soldered RAM

The last MacBook with upgradeable RAM was the non-retina 2012 Pro.

Yep. My mistake. I meant to say soldered storage.

Don't you think their audience might be people who do have a reason to upgrade?

Their audience hasn’t had a 6 slotted mac since the 9600.

I'm vaguely considering it because it does 8K video, and it'd be nice to replace three 4K monitors with an 8K screen.

But that's quite the price bump. The M1 Ultra studio handles my workload pretty well, so I'll maybe save up my pennies for the Vision Pro.

People with the immediately previous generation are not usually the audience. This was only the case for iPhone between about 2011-2019.

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