once you get all your apps, wallpaper, shortcut order and same OS, you really quickly get the feeling you spent 1000$ for the exact same thing
But it needs to be seamless to remove any friction from the purchase, but at the same time if it feels the same then we felt like we wasted money.
So what I usually do is buy a different colored phone and change the wallpaper.
My MacBook was the same. Seamless transition and 2 hours later I was used to the new m4 speeds.
These LLM models were supposedly limited by the training run, but these point-version models are mostly post-training driven, which seems to be taking less time.
If models were tied to a specific hardware (say, a "AI PC" or whatever) the cycle would get slower and we'll get a slower summer which I'm secretly wishing.
It's interesting how the recent AI announcements are following the same trend over a smaller timeframe.