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It is with this story of macbook pro 2016 which lasted 5 years that I understood how Tim Cook works ... He released a machine that he will reuse for a few years because it facilitates logistics, production.

So we are on cycles of 4 / years on all products. They could have changed the design before for the macbook pro but no. Tim Cook is clearly not Steve Jobs ... A genius in logistics, a pragmatic manager who has raised Apple to today's valuation. Apple produce quality and very practical products but no dreams, no impulses, no love of the products from the manager. It does not prevent me to be excited for tomorrow and surely to throw myself on the pre-orders but I would have liked a little daring from Apple, it's been a long time since our uses have not been revolutionized!
You cannot realistically expect a completely new design every year. It takes 2 - 3 years for a complete Mac redesign. So we get a basic four year cycle with minor updates in between, e.g. new CPU or new display.

The 2016 model was replaced 2019 which was kind of shorter than expected.

I blame Intel for a lot of the problems with the 2016 models. Intel roadmaps said they would deliver 10nm 2016 and it is obvious that the machines were designed for 10nm chips running cooler and drawing less power. Intel "fixed" their problems by running the 14nm chips hotter to get out the extra bit of power to claim some progress and this just aggravated the problem in the later models forcing the 2019 update.

I can understand if there is a LOT of bad blood between Intel and Apple where Apple probably blames Intel for causing a lot of Apples problems.
 
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