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I purchased a fully maxed out M2 Max MacBook Pro when it was announced like 6 months ago. I knew it was going to be outdated eventually, but within 6 months, wow. Did not expect that.

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i mean, if the machine does the job you purchased it for, is it really outdated? Unless the job it is doing is to be the best and latest, as a status symbol...

Yeah, I still have an M1 Mini and it does everything I ask of it pretty handily. The most intense work being rendering edited photos out of Lightroom while watching videos and web browsing around the same time.

Oh I'm super happy with it - it has handled everything I've thrown at it and then some and I'm not planning on upgrading anytime soon. But I feel like with the M2 Pro's having such a short shelf life, what that means for long term support.

Given Apple’s history and California law, I wouldn’t worry that your M2 will have a short lifespan.

I doubt it means anything. The 3rd gen iPad was superseded within 6 months, but it still had 7.5 years of support.

Lessens the resale value at the very least.

I use a maxed-out M1 Max and have 0 complaints. There was never a task where I felt the memory or CPU performance was not enough

Same here, battery lasts for a long while and it never gets hot, which is a big deal for me as I use it on my lap for long periods of time.

When I bought it, I knew it was going to be a laptop that I'll keep for at least 5 years. So far, it still feels like new.

I have the same M1 Max as a personal machine and just got a maxed out M2 Max for work. The M2 Max does feel faster through daily use but that could also be related to the new install?

I periodically reinstall mine and keep the battery healthy

You can feel slightly less bad. M2 Max was announced in January, 10 months ago.

I have an m1 max and I'm more than happy. Until local LLMs work really well on these chips I don't see a reason to upgrade

depends on how you define "outdated" i guess

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