My point is that because something is acceptable before something else came along better doesn’t mean it’s acceptable now.

Would you have been okay if Android phones had still been BlackBerry clones 7 years after the iPhone came out?

I don’t know what to say to that other than I pity that mindset.

So I should still be using an Apple //e and an 80 pound CRT TV?

Please be serious, that straw-man is clearly not my point. (I thought you said it was 90# of CRT)

There’s definitely a balance between the newest of the newest bleeding edge hardware that we could only have dreamed of five years ago, and still functional hardware from five years ago.

Just like engineering is a balance between technical optimization and cost.

Seems like your mindset is one that chooses optimization at any cost, which is pitiable.

I bought an M3 when it was brand new but I also have a Dell XPS laptop that’s running an Intel 8th GEN processor. Both have their uses, and the existence of the M3 does not make the Dell worthless or unacceptable.

A 6 year old M1 MacBook Air that is still being sold new for $699 at Walmart is not “bleeding edge” and not expensive. Even the latest MacBook Air with 16GB RAM is $999.

And a 27 inch CRT was between 70 and 100 pounds…