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New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

What HN thinks

A launch thread where everyone shows up to explain why their five-year-old M1 is still perfectly fine, thanks.

M1 Macs still don't need replacing
Most commenters say their M1-era machines feel as fast as current models for daily work, so they're skipping the M6. RAM limits or local LLMs are the main reasons anyone upgrades.
Chip naming and lineup confuse
Having the base M6 sell alongside M5 Pro/Max is seen as confusing, since older Pro chips beat the new base chip in bandwidth and multicore. Others reply that Intel, AMD and Qualcomm names are far worse.
Memory bandwidth decides local AI
For local LLM inference, the base M6's 170GB/s is seen as weak. Several suggest a used M1 Max with 64GB or waiting for the M7.

Consensus: Apple Silicon machines age remarkably well, and most people see little reason to upgrade from an M1 unless they need more RAM or faster local AI.

Recommended in the comments

Asahi Linux (product): Users run it daily on M1 machines and report it as stable, apart from USB-C display output.
Kapitsa ↗ (tool): One commenter reports 145+ tokens/sec on an M1 Max.
Tailscale (service): Commenters use it to reach a beefy home dev server from a lightweight laptop.
NixOS (product): Suggested as an OS that prioritises power users over UI churn.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 2 days ago.

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Posted: 2026-10-27 by beex
Category: Hardware

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