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- You know and I know that
for the last very many years,

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every year Apple has a new
iPhone model that they announced

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in September for purchase
shortly thereafter.

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So if it's August and you
want to buy a new iPhone,

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that is one of those very
small handful of cases

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I would say, don't get the phone now.

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Wait for the new models to be announced

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because you're probably gonna
want one of those instead.

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And again, this is the
exception rather than the rule,

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but that's a good example of
a case where that is true.

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I bring this up

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because there's another
good specific case right now

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that we should talk about,

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which is whether you should
buy a new Mac right now,

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a Mac computer from Apple,
because the rumor mill now says

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that the M3 chips, Apple
makes its own chips now.

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They don't use Intel chips anymore.

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Sometimes it's called Apple silicon

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and it basically started
with the M1 chips.

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Then there were the M2 chips.

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And each one of these had
variations like the M2 Pro

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and the M2 Ultra that
were even more powerful.

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Well, the current rumor mill says

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that the M3 chips may start showing up

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in new Macs as early as this
fall, most likely in October,

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shortly after the iPhone 15

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or whatever they end up
calling it gets announced.

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Now, why is this important?

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Because a phone you might keep

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for a year or two, but a laptop,

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especially a Mac or a Mac
computer, Mac desktop,

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you're probably gonna keep
for, you know, four years,

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five years, six years,
sometimes even longer,

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because frankly, they last a long time.

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Most of them are built like tanks.

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You can use 'em for

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let's say your whole four-year
college career and then some.

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It's not like everyone's going out

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and buying a new MacBook every year.

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So if you're thinking
about buying a new Mac,

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and let's say you have
an older Intel model,

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maybe you have an M1,

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the M2s are still pretty
new, but if you're thinking

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about getting a new one
and you say to yourself,

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"Well, I just heard M3
versions are coming,

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maybe I should wait."

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That is worth considering,
but I'll give you a handful

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of specific cases where you
should keep that in mind.

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For example, the loudest rumors

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about the M3 versions of
Macs is that the first system

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to get those is gonna be the iMac.

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That's that all-in-one
computer that Apple makes

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and they have made for many years.

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Currently, they only make
one model of the iMac

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and that is a 24.5-inch screen.

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It's a very nice device.

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I use one at home all the time.

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However, it has not
been updated since 2021,

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since the early days of
covid when it was one

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of the first systems to
get that M1 chip inside,

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moving away from Intel that
was in the older iMacs.

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It's got a whole new design along with it,

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you know, really nice, slick machine.

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Frankly, still works
fine as an M1 machine,

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but if Apple was going to
update the iMac at this point

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they would probably put that M3 chip

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in it if they're gonna
save it for a fall release,

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and that is when the first
M3 chips might be available.

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So if I was thinking

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about getting a replacement
iMac for my older one,

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whether it's a 21-inch Intel model

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or the 27-inch Intel model,
I would definitely say

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this is a case where you
hold out for a couple months

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and you see if there's
gonna be a new one for fall.

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I would not run out and
buy a 24-inch M1 iMac today

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because that chip's already kind of old.

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We also hear that the other systems

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that may get a new M3 chip later this year

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would be the 13-inch MacBook Air,

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which was not updated this year,

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but was updated a year
ago in the spring of 2022,

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so that is definitely due for an update.

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And the 13-inch MacBook Pro,

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which is kind of a throwback system,

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still has an older design,

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and if they keep that older design

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and shove a new M3 chip up in there,

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I'll frankly be a little surprised.

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It is time to update the design on that.

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It's got that wider bezel

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and a few other kind of throwback
design pieces for a Mac,

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but that's also another good
candidate because again,

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it's a little behind the times

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and it's certainly a
good size system to have

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if you want something with
the power of a MacBook Pro

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but you want the latest chip in it.

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So based on what we know

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from the historical
pacing of Apple updates,

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both for hardware systems
and for the actual chips,

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and what we know about
when Apple likes to have

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product events where
they reveal new products,

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it's reasonably likely, it's not 100%,

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don't take it to the
bank, don't go to Vegas

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and place a bet on it,
but it's reasonably likely

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that we'll have a new iPhone in September.

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So don't buy an iPhone right now,

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because as I'm telling
you this, it's, you know,

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mid-July and maybe this
is kind of the cutoff

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for buying a new iPhone
if you're not gonna wait,

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and don't buy a 24-inch iMac right now

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because there's a reasonable chance

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those are gonna get replaced in October

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with M3 chip versions,
which should be very nice.

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And the same probably goes
for the MacBook Air 13 inch.

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The M2 version is the current version.

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You can still get an
even older M1 version.

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That one's so old now.

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I really wouldn't get it
unless it was super on sale,

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though it's still a
perfectly capable machine.

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And same thing, of course, goes
for the 13-inch MacBook Pro,

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which again, is a little
bit of a throwback.

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So this brings us back
to the larger topic.

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Should I buy now?

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Should I wait?

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I would say in most cases, again,

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get what you're gonna like.

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Get what you can afford.

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Get what you think you're
gonna get some good use out of.

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Don't worry that there's
a new model coming

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because there's always a new model coming.

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And again, there are a
handful of cases where we have

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a pretty good idea that
something is coming

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right around a specific date

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that might be coming up
with a couple of months,

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and if it's a big investment
that you want to use

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for a lot of years, in those
cases, maybe hold back.

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But my general point of view

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the rest of the time, find what
you like, buy it, enjoy it.

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