It's hard to imagine ay reason why I would not want to keep upgrading to a new MPB every few years -- my M3 MBP is by far the best laptop I've owned thanks to the incredible battery life.
Of course I'm rooting for competition, but Apple seems to be establishing a bigger and bigger lead with each iteration.
I don’t see the yearly releases as saying you have to upgrade. Rather, having a consistent cadence makes it easier for the supply chain, and the short iteration time means there’s less pressure to rush something in half-baked or delay a release.
My M1 laptop from early 2022 is too good for me to care about upgrading right now, I loaded it up with 64GB ram and it's still blazing. What benefit would I really notice? My heavy apps loading a couple of seconds faster?
I agree. I also have an M1 mini with 8GB of RAM and while I wish I'd bought one with more RAM, it work nicely when the task doesn't require much RAM. The incremental benefits of the M2-M4 are nice, but they do not obsolete the M1 by any stretch of the imagination.
Of course I'm rooting for competition, but Apple seems to be establishing a bigger and bigger lead with each iteration.