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How long do yall keep your iMacs?

How Many Years?

  • 1-3 years

    Votes: 3 5.5%

  • 3-5 years

    Votes: 9 16.4%

  • 5-10 years

    Votes: 33 60.0%

  • 10 + years

    Votes: 10 18.2%
  • Total voters
    55
doobybiggs

doobybiggs

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Curious, mine is a late 2012, runs fine for the most part. Every now and then it will fight with itself and want to randomly reset about 20 times in a row, then it is fine for months.

The only thing I am debating is replacing the HDD with an SSD and speed things up. I have 20GB ram in it as well ...
 
My 2001 iMac G3 still runs fine.

My 2009 also runs fine. It's been upgraded with an SSD replacing the optical drive and 8GB RAM. With the upgrades it runs Catalina fine.
 
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velocityg4 said:
My 2001 iMac G3 still runs fine.

My 2009 also runs fine. It's been upgraded with an SSD replacing the optical drive and 8GB RAM. With the upgrades it runs Catalina fine.
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Ya I just installed Catalina this week and it has been running just fine with current setup. Dark Mode rules!!
 
I have a 2013 21", pretty darn slow so kind of useless, nice to look at so it's solely used to stream Apple Music to my Klipsch R-51 PM speakers.
 
As long as possible now that apple will be making them with the apple silicon going forward. I put 10 years!
 
Nicole1980 said:
As long as possible now that apple will be making them with the apple silicon going forward. I put 10 years!
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not a fan of the apple silicon push?

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I shoot for 10 years on Macs and PCs. I've pretty much always gotten there. Buy a quality machine. Take care of it.
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agreed, since I made the switch to apple I try to aim for that since the pretty price upfront.

When I was on PC I could tinker with it way more, so normally upgraded parts every year or 2.
 
PBG4 Dude said:
Be glad it isn’t the 90s anymore, when systems were woefully obsolete after a couple of years.
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We have been riding a plateau in computer technology for quite a while. Even very old machines are still relevant as daily drivers and work machines. (writing this from work, on a 2012 Mac Mini, 10.14.6).
 
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I still use my mid-2010, i3 21.5".
5-6 hours every day, nothing heavy, just web browsing, some photo editing, & spreadsheets mostly.
Replaced the HD with a SSD from Crucial and it works much better.
I was really nervous about replacing it myself, but it worked out fine.
Will wait until the AS iMac gets released, just hope this one lasts until then.
 
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We have been riding a plateau in computer technology for quite a while. Even very old machines are still relevant as daily drivers and work machines. (writing this from work, on a 2012 Mac Mini, 10.14.6).
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My 2012 11” MBA has become my wife’s daily driver and got her through her BSN courses over the last couple of years.

Having been into computers since the TRS-80 Model III, I prefer to use a more recent computer.
 
doobybiggs said:
not a fan of the apple silicon push?
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Not at all. I'm already facing the loss of several 32-bit apps and games I still like to use if/when I move off Mojave. Also, the ability to natively boot into windows with bootcamp is a huge plus IMO.

I suppose in a few years I may look at macs and decide to take the dive again, but over the years I've collected a huge amount stuff and programs and content that may or may not work with a new silicon mac.

Just not anywhere near in the mood these days to totally upend my computing life for a mac that may be somewhat faster than the one I have now.
 
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I bought a 2016 MBP because my 2010 lasted so long and I wanted to future proof instead of going with the 2015 model without USB C. Now I'm having the flexgate issue and regretting it.
 
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HavenRealtyFL said:
I bought a 2016 MBP because my 2010 lasted so long and I wanted to future proof instead of going with the 2015 model without USB C. Now I'm having the flexgate issue and regretting it.
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You didnt even mention the dreaded keyboard.
The 2016-2019 apple laptops are completely non-future-proofable.
There is simply nothing you could have done to make your laptop 'future proof' (which is a dumb term anyway since a big ssd or extra ram wont matter when new systems come out with features your system will never be able to match or support)
 
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I’ve had this 2013 27” for 5 years. Waiting for the AS 24” iMac. If this dies before then, I will buy an Intel MBP as a stopgap.

Gave my six year old 21.5” iMac to a former peer in 2016, not sure if it’s still running.
 
Typing this from a mid 2007 24" iMac refurb bought from AAPL that still work's well in it's role for surfing etc.
 
10 years on my MacBook Air, just replaced this year.
10 years on my iMac (so far) with plans to upgrade the HDD and GPU.
 
I have a late 2012 iMac 27” 2.9 i5 that is struggling amidst max ram (32GB) and have gotten to the point of me needing pick up a new iMac 27” 8C i7.

I’m going to try out Astropad’s Luna Display to see how it does on the old iMac as a second display.
 
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