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, Bill W
wrote:

I doubt I'll do as well trying to sell this iMac, however. The jump
from intel to Mx will make this a dinosaur fast.

only because intel has stagnated for the past decade.

already, the m1 macs, which are low end entry level computers, have
pushed existing intel pcs into the endangered species category.

It¹s also going to push some of their own products to undesirable status.

that's an unfortunate side effect of any major transition.

One thing that will delay Intel¹s and Windows' ruin is that fact that so
many people don¹t need any more performance than they have, and lots and
lots of people simply don¹t want to change OS's from something they have
become very familiar with over many years. It¹s been a bit time consuming
for me, and I'm at least somewhat tech savvy. I¹m sure I¹ll be switching
to the M1 at some point, or adding it, but I¹ll probably take a pretty big
hit on the MacBook when I sell or trade it. It¹s already 1k.

there will still be a demand for intel macs due to people wanting to
boot into windows or use niche software that can't be ported to m* for
some reason (usually bogus ones).

And my ~1 year update on the MacBook for anyone interested: it does, as they
say, ³just work². The only problems I¹ve had have been the native mail
client,

apple mail is awful. unfortunately, the alternatives are worse.

and that seems to have sorted itself out,

that's good. for me, it's become worse.

and the spinning beach
ball, but I leave lots of windows open in Chrome,

chrome is a major battery and cpu hog.

and it mostly happens
working with one specific app, so that could be the sole blame.

could be, but with chrome running, it could be chrome.

check activity monitor (or command line equivalent) to see what's going
on.

It has sort
of crashed once or twice, but rebooting cleared I up.

the app or the entire mac?

Windows remains a
continuing nightmare, especially their updates.

yep.

it's crazy what people will tolerate without ever investigating any of
the alternatives.