How crazy is it to upgrade from M4 -> M5?

[FrozenDarkness]

I see the M5 macbook air 24GB Ram 1TB SSD going on sale for $1300 and I'm tempted.

I currently have a M4 24GB Ram 512GB SSD. My primary reason (and these are horrible reasons I understand) to upgrade is two fold:

- 1TB SSD will allow me to store my photos library locally (I keep telling myself why did i buy a icloud solution just to spend more on storage locally)

- WIFI 7 - I recently upgraded my network to 2Gb

M5 speed bump is nice too but I don't think it's life changing.

So how crazy is this idea

 

[conmee]

As an Apple shareholder, I say go for it. In fact, probably need to broaden your horizons and get at minimum a 16" M5 Pro with 64GB 2TB SSD like I have (more screen, ProMotion, more cores, faster memory bandwidth, faster SSD, WiFi7, BT6, TB5). 😉

Other than having all your files on the SSD, you won't notice any difference. Maybe you'll notice wifi improvement if you download lots of really large files, otherwise, you probably already have more than enough bandwidth and low latency for online gaming and any websites you visit (MacRumors won't be any faster, although maybe the extra bandwidth will help downloading all the ads). At this point, you're just chasing some specs (I get it, I chase them as well lol).

I'd hold out until next spring or whenever the M6 comes out at this point. The M5 Air 24GB 1TB is just not much of an upgrade over what you have. Of course, if you're worried about the AI apocalypse driving up memory and storage prices even higher in the next twelve months, then I'd go all out with an M5 Air 32GB 2TB just to future proof and keep yourself from going down this same path when the M6 Air comes out. You'll have more than enough storage for the next couple years since you've been doing fine with 512GB and 32GB will give you extra room for AI if that turns out to be something you use, especially if you dabble in local AI stuff.

 

[NeonNights]

Clearly this is a want more than a need, but nothing wrong with that. You don't need anyone else to justify your own choice. The decision is only going to affect you, and possibly the person you decide to sell the M4 to. If the upgrade makes you happy and isn't a big cost to you then why not?

Out of curiosity, what do you currently use the 2gb connection to do?

 

[gigatoaster]

 

[conmee]

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First meme in a while that made me literally laugh out loud. Nice!

 

[FrozenDarkness]

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this kind of feels appropriate. it's the dark side of me

 

[FrozenDarkness]

Clearly this is a want more than a need, but nothing wrong with that. You don't need anyone else to justify your own choice. The decision is only going to affect you, and possibly the person you decide to sell the M4 to. If the upgrade makes you happy and isn't a big cost to you then why not?

Out of curiosity, what do you currently use the 2gb connection to do?

so what's dumb is that i was on a 800MB plan with xfinity. They jacked up the price on me. However, upgrading to 2GB would've saved me $10/months so I just did that. I already had a EERO Pro so I already had WiFi 7 in my router. Nothing I own supports WiFi7 so it was kind of pointless.