Biggest issue with my M3 Max is apple mandatory fun bloatware. I think it's the same playbook as phones long term. The hardware is still powerful but the software is optimized for the latest CPU, so older models run hot, take a fraction of the second longer to load the resources, etc. That stacks up over 5-6 years of releases to make older models feel slower.

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at1as 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I've held back an OS update or two, specifically because I'm worried about performance dropoff on the old chip

But with all of the AI-discovered exploits I think it'll become more important to keep everything up to date

	▲	sneak 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Apple makes security updates available for the last few major OS versions, and even backports really bad ones further back on a case by case basis.