I said "manufactured," not "planned." I don't think Apple intended to do this at the outset. Tim Cook wasn't leaned back in an office chair, twirling a moustache saying "yes, let's make every mac made before 2019 SUCK!"
replyIf it was planned, Rosetta 2 would have never existed in the first place. It would have been a qemu fork haphazardly crammed into Xcode.
There was no "planning" here. Here's how I imagine it went: a developer whined about tech debt, management seized an opportunity to generate revenue, neither party considered, yknow, humans, and now we're here.
I have a MacBook from 2017 and and m3 air today.
replyFor day to day tasks there is no difference.
I have a MacBook Pro from 2016 and an M4 Pro from last year. There is a night and day difference.
replyI think "M series chips are no better than ten year old Intel chips" is a take that would be somewhat difficult to sustain, given the data.
For messaging email and web browsing. Come on stop being a freakin nerd and consider the average user.
replyThe average user cares about their fans going full-blast when running some garbage electron app and their battery life being shit. You're just being dense.
replyTry using it unplugged.
replyEerily similar story here. My wife was using her 2017 MBP (the one they got sued over) and she adored it until Tahoe suddenly caused Chrome to run like hot garbage. I bought her an open-box M3 Air. She likes the color. It doesn't provide any more value to her life than her 2017 MBP did, and yet we're out $1000 because Apple said so.
replySo on the one hand you are so much aware of the obsolescence issue and on the other hand you just decided that upgrading a 2017 MBP to Tahoe is a good idea? I am on a M4 Pro Mac mini and it is still running Sequoia.
replyBtw she can downgrade to Sequoia from Tahoe.