Debated about buying to be honest and I don’t want to get political in a tech forum.
Are our devices getting slow? Yes
But do they still work and get the job done? Yes
Is it bearable? still researching
2025 has a been a rough year on the family and extended family. Taking all those into account plus family stuff, my workflow seems to be out the window on some days. There are days I wish I had a MBP instead of the Mac Mini so I can do XYZ while I am here. Other times, I wish the iPad was a bit faster in doing ABC instead.
I had the M4 iPad Pro in my cart at one point, then an announcement of the M5, M6, M600 (you know the cycle) I think we also reached peak sharing limit (reference) so now that’s on my mind.
Then came the tariffs and now this lingering tech / political thought.
- Tech thought - I waited this long, we can probably wait until it gets really bad from a workflow perspective.
- Political thought - It’s all market manipulation. Tariffs, pause, tariffs, pause, create short-term period buying frenzies, etc.
What to do? Not sure. Now I am rambling, don’t put a tariff on that in the forum 