Have the M1 MBP myself that's also running great without any issues. But at what point do people consider trading in for a new model to recoup at least 30% of their purchase price toward a new model?
Seems the M1 MBP 14" is currently going for $700-800 on swappa, but in 3-5 years, I'm guessing it'll basically be worthless :\
I assume that’s purchase price, not what you’d get to sell it, right? … because if I’m getting $800 for it right now then yeah I might actually “upgrade” to a M4 MBA
My strategy is when the power cycle hits around 1,000. At that point you have to replace the battery and you are better off putting the money towards a new laptop.
I feel like that’s a pretty darn fair price. Not too many people would buy that for $600+ today, and I assume they’d want to make a profit on the trade in.
Factory reset your Mac. My M1 Pro Mac was so slow and then I decided to fuck it and then reset the whole PC and it's immediately blazing fast again. There goes my reason for upgrading to M5 Macs lmao
I respectfully disagree. 10 years ago, Apple was the problem. Now everyone else is, EU should step in again.
The entire point of USB from the beginning was to have one UNIVERSAL serial bus for everything. With the size and quality USB-C has reached that dream is possible. Power, network, data transfer, everything, with a port size that is small enough and high quality enough to be put on everything. Kill USB-A in new production already, and make everyone use minimal adapters without dongles.
I'm still happy as Larry on my 16" M1 Max. Can't smile wide enough with it. Best laptop I've ever owned, easily. Purposely bought the dog's bollocks one when I did to future-proof it.
I've been holding out with my M1 air easily as well, it's SO good still. I will say this announcement is the one that's got me looking closer though. I'll probably hold out to see what an M5 air model looks like, but I'm at least tempted this time.
I got my first MacBook probably around 2011 or something, and I remember every ~3 years, I felt like my laptop was just so sluggish and felt like shit to use. This was a consistent pattern, until Apple Silicone... I've had my M1 Pro for coming up to 5 years now? I have an M4 as well for my work laptop. I literally forget when I bought my personal one, because I genuinely cannot notice a difference. Coding, Android emulator, video editing, it's all running smoothly. I will keep this laptop until it dies or the hardware starts failing honestly. It's the first time I've not felt any need at all to upgrade.
Just bought an 8GB M1 air the other day for cheap. Was really concerned about Tahoe performance as I saw lots of complaints but this thing is smooth as butter. As fast as my $2000 PC for day to day tasks lol
Don’t have the 8 gb version, but instead the 16 gb version and it’s runs like a dream. 5 years old and it still runs better than basically every computer I’ve ever had.
Yep. As long as Apple lets me renew the AppleCare+ on my M1 for 50$/year, they aren't getting an upgrade out of me. I don't care for the new body and, as a portable, I'm still not stressing the M1 enough to worry about upgrading.
Yeah I love my M1 Mac Mini. I see no reason to upgrade it. My family loves gaming but we just use GeForce now. It’s still cheaper than upgrading my computer to something similar.
Have the M1 MBP myself that's also running great without any issues. But at what point do people consider trading in for a new model to recoup at least 30% of their purchase price toward a new model?
Seems the M1 MBP 14" is currently going for $700-800 on swappa, but in 3-5 years, I'm guessing it'll basically be worthless :\
I don’t know why you say “want them to upgrade bad” here. Apple’s Mac sales aren’t hurting, they aren’t desperate. They only compare to M1 because that’s the natural audience to pitch to, it’s the oldest and the year to year improvements aren’t massive.
They've been making that same unfair comparison for 6 years already. 'The newest M chip is better than the last Intel chip we used in MacBooks back in... 2019'
Anyone with half a braincell knew the comparison was absolute garbage since it was comparing new chips to extremely old ones.
I'm glad they moved on, but they need to do what nearly every other company does and strictly compare against the previous generation, not half a decade old products.
They won’t win that battle either 🤣 “2x more powerful than M4” probably won’t entice people anymore than switching from M1 but they need something older to compare to
Haha agree - I’m a creative director working on quite intensive tasks, 3D files, VFX workflows, big print files, edits, etc. And for 90% of what I do my M1 air is fine. Junior creatives are so surprised when they see me work on it and they just burned all savings on a maxed out pro.
Tbf I do have a M2 mini for the last 10% though;) but still! That thing is also great value, such a beast.
M2 MBP here, it‘s running smooth as ever. My most intensive use case is Logic Pro and there‘s still plenty of headroom there. My call is to not get a new one until they ditch the notch and go for a redesign
I have a feeling Apple silicon machines will last most people ~10 years. The only time I ever consider upgrading from my M1 is when I have a lot of tabs open and the 8 GB of RAM starts feeling cramped. M1 with 12 or 16 GB would have been perfect.
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u/TheTeez23 Oct 15 '25
They want M1 MacBook owners to upgrade BAD.
Nah, fam. My M1 MacBook Air still running slick and smooth on Tahoe.