Ask HN: Should I buy Mac book Pro now or wait for ARM?
I&#x27;m in the same boat (but with an ancient late-&#x27;13 13&quot; MBP), and I&#x27;m going to purchase a new Macbook  Pro in the coming weeks.<p>It&#x27;s going to a better-specced model (32gb&#x2F;i7 13&quot;) so it should allow me to ride out the ARM transition until the kinks are ironed out. I guess if there are compelling arguments to upgrade earlier, it should still have ok-ish resale value (there&#x27;ll always be people who need to stick with Intel for a while longer, and there won&#x27;t be any Intel big refreshes anymore, I guess...)<p>I&#x27;m not confident Apple will keep selling Intel Macs for long once they have an ARM replacement for a model; will there still be a 32GB Intel 13&quot; once they have a 32&#x2F;64GB ARM 13&quot;? Or will they just keep offering the base models? Or none? Anyone&#x27;s guess and not something I want to depend on.<p>Switching to Linux is not an option for me. &quot;Linux is only free if your time has no value&quot;, as someone on this site recently put it, and I&#x27;ve found that to be true, plus, even in the best case, the &quot;minor issues&quot; that still remain are dealbreakers for me.<p>Switching to Windows is something I&#x27;ve looked at, but I just don&#x27;t &quot;get&quot; Windows, and even with WSL2, while there now is a happy path to work with Linux that is quite comfortable, anything outside that happy path quickly gets painful. It&#x27;s just nowhere near as versatile as macOS with its UNIX underpinnings or native Linux, maybe it&#x27;ll get there eventually.<p>And besides, I&#x27;d hate to lose muscle memory and a ton of apps and workflows that I&#x27;d have to relearn and rebuild and that&#x27;s quite an investment. I like the new keyboard a lot, so my main gripe with Apple laptops has disappeared.