Yes, I did this. I had a 2019 16” i9 that I replaced with a 14” M1 Pro as soon as I could because the Intel/T2 TouchBar machine was so crash prone, glitchy, and hot. The i9 was the worst Mac I’ve ever had. The M1 Pro is probably the best.

And I’ve actually considered upgrading to an M2 Max as I kind of regret only getting 32 GB of RAM in the M1 Pro. However, the trade-in price from Apple is too low.

Apple trade in values are always low. Look around for other options or consider selling directly to someone.

Yeah, if I had an older machine I would. The advantage of a direct trade is no downtime. Apple trades have worked well enough for me in the past, but I wouldn’t benefit from the new machine enough to take the lower price.

> because the Intel/T2 TouchBar machine was so crash prone, glitchy, and hot. The i9 was the worst Mac I’ve ever had.

I'm running the same machine, but for me it's the best Mac I ever had. Decent keyboard very similar to my prior 2015 MBP, larger screen while at the same time keeping the exterior footprint of the 2015, it can run virtually everything you throw at it (sans 32-bit legacy games, but not because of the hardware), and if you remember to restart MS Teams after a videocall (because Teams "hogs" the external GPU and doesn't release it after a video/screenshare call ends) the battery lasts hours, even after three years of extremely intensive abuse.

The only (but massive) issue I have with all post-2013 MacBooks is that their storage cannot be easily recovered in another machine in a disaster event, and with the 2019ff it is completely impossible "thanks" to Apple soldering the flash chips and locking the encryption keys in the T2 processor - without TimeMachine and an expensive NAS you're completely and utterly fucked.

Switching to an M-series Mac would provide me with even longer battery life and probably a notch better performance with IntelliJ, but that's it - I'd have to give up on running x86 Docker images which is a real problem as a lot of third party images don't provide ARM images.

AMD64 Docker images generally work fine, and have recently improved with the integration of Rosetta 2 with Virtualization Framework. It seems to just work, and the performance is much better than when Docker was emulating things through QEMU.

Same for me. My 2018 15" MacBook Pro has been great. I use it every day and have had almost zero issues with it. It has the "bad" keyboard and it is only now starting to act up. I still have AppleCare on it and plan to bring it in and have the keyboard replaced. Hopefully it will last another 5 years after that. I do suspect it will only get one more MacOs update though. But, I have some older machines that still run just fine on Catalina.

I'm on an M1 MacBook Pro, and had to check settings to remember it's almost three years old. Zero issues, performs wonderfully, probably going to keep for at least another two.

Also using the 2020 M1 as a work laptop. If you stuck the internals in to the new case and told me its the 2023 model, I wouldn't notice it wasn't brand new.

I'm on an Acer 16GB/1TB laptop from 2015 that runs as smooth as day one (Ubuntu). I think the workload just hasn't increased much except for gaming and some niches like GPU workloads.

Same, bought an M1 16" MBP w/the Max chip, basically all the best specs. Unless there's a titanic shift in performance I probably won't be buying any new laptops for a while.

My M1 Macbook pro is exactly the same, it's probably the best computer I have ever had (but younger me that tinkered more probably hates me for it)

The only downside for me with the original M1 was the lack of external monitor support like the previous Pro had. That’s been fixed with the M1 Max.

Can you be more specific? I dock my M1 Air to a 4k display all the time.

Dock it to two - the M1 can only handle one external display; the previous Intel MacBook Pros could do four; and the M1 Max brings this back. I have four external monitors + the internal and the M1 couldn't do it; the M1 Max can so I held out.

(You can do a hacky thing with DisplayLink adapters that emulate a virtual screen somehow but it IS hacky - https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/19166... )

Uh, but it should be or is the norm?

Which laptop or pc is dying after 3 years?

What you say is true, but I'd also add that the market for an amd64(yeah you heard me Intel)-incompatible developer machine is currently limited.

The people who can develop on ARM have moved, while a good chunk of the rest can't even if they wanted to.

That might be different in the future, but it's the reality today.

M1 was good but macOS is more and more insufferable and buggy.