I'm just venting that their processor strategy doesn't make much sense. The iPad gets the M4, but the Mini and Studio and Mac Pro are still on M2 and the MacBooks are on M3.
They've essentially undercut every Mac they currently sell by putting the M4 in the iPad and most people will never use that kind of power in an iPad.
If you are going to spend $4k on a Mac don't you expect it to have the latest processor?
Probably 80%+ of the population can do everything they need or want to do for the next 5 (maybe even 8) years on an M2 Air available for less than $1,500.
I write this on a $1,000 late 2015 Intel MacBook Air.
Honestly only reason I want a studio is because I run several monitors and my Mac Mini can’t run all my monitors unless I use displaylink, which doesn’t allow me to run any HDCP protected content and is just glitchy and hacky in general.
I think for the past 10 years you are correct, but I think we are currently entering the AI age and the base M4 has 38 TOPS (trillion operations per second) and we aren’t going to be able to run the AI models on device with lower latency that they will surely be releasing this summer without a more recent chip, so I don’t think things are as future proof as they used to be.
But that’s not really the point, the point is that I don’t want to spend $4k to buy a Mac Studio with an M2 chip while the M3 Macbook Pro has on par performance and the iPad has an M4. Apple should come up with a better update strategy then randomly updating devices based on previous update cycles.
People with a Macbook. You use the Macbook to work and the iPad to play, read, movies, draw, etc. plus you can use it as a second monitor for the Macbook.
