An even longer trip on the M1

Apple silicon has completely ripped up my laptop replacement cycle, which is bad news for family members waiting for cast-offs

Barry Collins is a former editor of PC Pro and shouldn’t be left alone with any hot implements, bar a coffee mug. Send Starbucks vouchers to barry@mediabc.co.uk @bazzacollins There are two extremes on the PC Pro kit-buying spectrum. At one end, there’s Jon Honeyball, spending the GDP of Norway every few months so that he can have the latest iPhone, Macs and other Apple doodads at their wallet-stretching top spec. At the other, there’s Lee Grant soldering together an Etch-A-Sketch and a Nokia 3210 to form a fully compostable “smartphone”. I like to think I’m somewhere in the middle, the PC Pro everyman. I don’t splash out on kit all that often, but when I do I tend to go premium, especially when it comes to my work computer. Ever…

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