I have a fan issue with my 27 inch iMac 2020 and am planning to replace it. I was going to try to hold out until the M5s came out, but now it seems like they may not be out until mid-2026, so I'm thinking maybe I should just get an M4 or M4 Pro. Would I likely be missing anything significant by not waiting other than possibly an extra year or so of support life?
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Worth a wait for M5 at this point?
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For general computing you won't miss anything. If you play modern games however M5 would be considerably better probably. But for modern and upcoming PC games run via CrossOver/Wine 24GB of RAM is more important than M5 vs M4 consideration, it's often a bottleneck that makes games unplayable due to swap file which emerges on 16GB machines in some games requiring 16GB of RAM because Mac doesn't have dedicated additional video RAM. So M4 24GB would be better than M5 16GB for PC games.
