Comment Re:M1 performance (Score 1) 107
Just replaced my wife's Air last month after 7 years. If the charging circuit hadn't failed, it would still be running. We even limped along on her 2013 Air for a few weeks until I could get together the money. I'm on a 2018 Lenovo AMD Ryzen laptop that is still going strong and still seems fast enough for what I do with it.
For any non-power-user who's bought a computer in the last 8-10 years, odds are the only things that will compel you to upgrade are equipment failure, physical damage, or sluggish video decoding in some new CPU-heavy streaming codec.
I hope Apple isn't judging Mac sales by the iPhone yardstick. Phones have plateaued too in terms of CPU power vs. utility, but iPhones have a vanity factor to them that laptops will never have.