Regardless of the CPU, the time to upgrade every year is long gone, even without taking M chip series into consideration.
Most of my home stuff is from around 2010, my work laptop is from 2021, and neither at home, nor at work, do I need more programming power.
I have enough cores, RAM, disk space, and graphic cards, to still code whatever I feel like locally, with exception of ray tracing or latest AI models, neither of which are that relevant to my computing activities.
So I will keep using them until they die, or there is no hope left of the battery and need to acquire a new one to take outside the house.
Most of my home stuff is from around 2010, my work laptop is from 2021, and neither at home, nor at work, do I need more programming power.
I have enough cores, RAM, disk space, and graphic cards, to still code whatever I feel like locally, with exception of ray tracing or latest AI models, neither of which are that relevant to my computing activities.
So I will keep using them until they die, or there is no hope left of the battery and need to acquire a new one to take outside the house.