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Found a silver and black touch id magic keyboard with number pad open-box at best buy for $165 and pulled the trigger lol. Supposed to be in excellent condition so I'm excited for it to arrive on Thursday!

 

I’d love to find a Magic Trackpad for less than $100. I have a super cheap Logitech mouse.

has anyone seen the rumors flying around about a $5-600 MacBook that will have an A chip in it? I feel like that is going to dominate. I am firmly ipad only and will ride that wave forever, but for like 95% of people that is going to crush.

 

I have seen those rumors. There's a reason why the M1 Air is regularly available through Walmart for $599 - it has to be absolutley killing it in sales.

And open box - excellent trackpads are 102 at Best Buy.

 

I actually love the fact the M1 Air is still for sale, as it’s my current daily driver since 2022, and I need it to last at least until the M6 OLED Pros drop.

What I’m wondering is how long the M1’s will get software updates? Apple typically does 5 years for iPhone and iPad updates, but the Mac is different. They get closer to 7-8 years for OS updates, 9-10 for security updates. Due to how long the M1 has been for sale, I’m wondering if Apple will update it for a set number of years after it’s discontinued? Ex: if they stopped making it in 2026, would it still get OS updates till 2031-32, or just security updates after say 2028? What I’m trying to get at is if they support it for five years of OS updates past it’s discontinuation, right now that’d be 10 years of OS support, which is completely unheard of elsewhere in the PC industry.

M1 Air is still the best computer I’ve ever owned, even without the pro upgrades I want most (screen, MagSafe, fast charging). Waiting patiently to upgrade.

 

Considering the XR and XS are getting dropped this year, which is 7 years after they were released, is pretty wild.

I'd assume at least two more years of support alongside the A14 SoCs and then they'll no longer get macOS updates. I can see Apple keeping that consistent but I could also see them running them long. Apple's problem now is that their Macs are so stable, efficient, and powerful from the first ARM SoC they released that they almost need to do some sort of planned obsolescence on them.

 

And I say that as someone who has both a M1 (work) and M4 (personal) Air. I see the difference between devices, prefer my personal Mac, but haven't yet made the leap to using it for everything because I haven't decided just how I would want to do that. Thinking I either clone the user or I use the M1 Air as the disk image for a virtualized session.

 

Agreed about the planned obsolescence thing from your first post. I have no idea how they’re gonna tackle that, because everyone I know with an M1-era chip has no need or desire to upgrade for the foreseeable future. It’s a tricky corner they painted themselves into, and a unique problem to solve.

Regarding the merge between your M1 and M4, I haven’t thought about doing the virtualized disk image thing before. I cloned the user when I went from 2008 Macbook to 2013 MBP. For the M1 upgrade, I started fresh. I imagine it has to be even easier cloning user now with both of those being ARM chips.

 

M1 was the game changer for sure. The last MacBook I had with the Touch Bar just before the M series chips came out. If the M1 iPad Air Had the camera in the right spot oi would have used it for years.

 

Since you're allowed to run macOS in Fusion or Parallels on a Mac, I figure it's the easiest way to keep everything separate. It's more work than I'm explaining, of course, but it's something I might do if I find some downtime.

 

Got my "excellent" condition keyboard from Best Buy

It's filthy and it has an eject button instead of touch id, despite touch id being on the box. Ugh.

 

lmao why am I not surprised. Can't wait for my surprise tomorrow.

 

This is such a terrible look. Apple Revokes EU Distribution Rights for Torrent Client, Developer Left in the Dark * TorrentFreak

 

Haha yeah I'm about to take it to the store directly, I'm gonna be pissed if they accuse me of being the one doing the bait and switch here lol

 

Well I'm $35 poorer than yesterday now but happy to get my new keyboard brand new this time haha. Already so convenient having touch id on this thing