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> Nor have I had any desire to upgrade

I never thought I'd see a processor that was 50% faster single-core and 80% faster multi-core and just shrug. My M1 Pro still feels so magically fast.

I'm really happy that Apple keeps pushing things and I'll be grateful when I do decide to upgrade, but my M1 Pro has just been such a magical machine. Every other laptop I've ever bought (Mac or PC) has run its fan regularly. I did finally get fan noise on my M1 Pro when pegging the CPU at 800% for a while (doing batch conversion of tons of PDFs to images) - and to be fair, it was sitting on a blanket which was insulating it. Still, it didn't get hot, unlike every other laptop I've ever owned did even under normal usage.

It's just been such a joyful machine.

I do look forward to an OLED MacBook Pro and I know how great a future Apple Silicon processor will be.

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My best Apple purchases in 20 years of being their customer: The Macbook M1 Pro 16 inch and the Pro Display XDR. When Steve Jobs died I really thought Apple was done, but their most flawless products (imho) came much later.

Yeah, don’t forget the 10 dark years between the Butterfly Keyboard Macbook Pro 2016, the Emoji Macbook Air, until the restoration of the USB ports… around 2022.

That was truely the dark age of Apple.

Those were the Ive Unleashed years.

Unbridled control over all design in one hyper opinionated guy was an error well resolved.

The first guy did alright.

I had the 2015 MBP and I held onto it until the M1 came out…I still have it and tbh it’s still kind of a great laptop. The two best laptops of the past decade for sure.

2008 mbp was my last apple laptop. Still feel quite slighted by Apple's treatment on that one.

That's the common hipster take on it...but I kinda liked the way the butterfly keys felt and my impression of the touchbar was chaotic neutral. By the time they let up a little on the ports, I'd lived with 4 USB-C ports so long that it really wasn't that big a deal.

What got me, however, was that was the time where their trade-in program was really kicking in. I think I got $800 for my touchbar mac which made the jump to an M1 Pro 14 a little less painful. Now you don't seem to so much pay for hardware as lease the Apple experience, so long as the hardware is still good.

What do you like about the Pro Display XDR?

With 6k I can have both vscode and the website I'm working on in one display, while still having lots of vertical space and no noticeable pixels. I tried using 2 4k screen next to each other among other things, but nothing works ergonomically as good as this.

I have the M4 iPad with the new OLED. That screen would be great in a Macbook Air.

Yeah, I have an M1 Max 64GB and don't feel any need to upgrade. I think I'll hit the need for more ram before a processor increase with my current workload.

Same for me, in a Mac Studio. It's only 2 years old so it's not like I would expect it to suck, but it's a rocket.

Folding/rolling screen would be awesome. 16” form factor that turns into 20” screen.

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