They’ve done so before. And this isn’t like the power PC transition where the computers would age quickly over time, computer aging has changed over time.
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I refuse to buy an Apple Silicon Mac with only 8 GB RAM!
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Which Mac(s) got 7 years of new OS support after the discontinuation date?
For example, if you suggested someone would use a 2002 computer in 2012, you would be called crazy but now it’s not as crazy.
As I already said, the 2010 Mac Pro the, 2008 MacBook Pro and other such computers.
Yeah, but it's not Chrome. And when I talked to tech support at the companies for these respective programs, and asked them if one specific browser is more problem free for them than any other, they both said Chrome. Maybe Edge would work as well, but I've no need to take the time to do the experiment to find out, since they have indeed performed well inside Chrome, and I've got enough RAM (32 GB) that I don't need to worry.
Ah yes, MacPro5,1. The 2010 models were discontinued in 2012 and the 2012 models were discontinued in 2013. Last officially supported version of macOS was Mojave which was released in 2018. That's 6 years for the 2010 models and 5 years for the 2013.
The MacBookPro4,1 was discontinued in 2009. Last officially supported version of macOS was El Capitan which was released in 2015. That's 6 years.
This is intentional strategy for planned obsolescence, by only making 8GB RAM as the only available pre-configured models. Apple know that most of the sales will be on the base and pre configured models as they’re the ones most widely available in retail. We already see that 8GB of RAM just doesn’t cut it anymore for modern computing tasks. It will only be doing more swap, and thus reducing the SSD life quicker. Thus I can see many users of base models will be quickly looking for an upgrade in less than 5 years. Win win for Apple. They have higher margin and quicker upgrades in the future.
Of course it is, which is why I find it funny when people hold Apple up over all the other companies like they are something different, something good and just in a sea of evil tech companies. Apple the great white knight. In fact they are huge data miners and I would guess have the greatest source of user data over any other company in the world. From health data to web browsing, they track it all.
First of all they have privacy measures so they do not track, also Apple supports their products, the longest with hardware support, software support, etc. Even though windows is compatible with more computers. A lot of the software is not compatible with those.
This is what everyone in the industry has is their computer. you rarely find a computer at that price with much more ram.
Apple also most likely will replace your computer for you if you’re having such a problem as SSD death in a short period of time.
Those were best case scenarios...
On the other end of the spectrum, the MacBook4,2 (which was released in 2008 and discontinued in 2009) only got two new versions of Mac OS X. The last officially supported version was Lion which was released in 2011.
You can’t combat best case scenario with worst case scenario and say that that’s the norm. you have to pick somewhere in the middle. Which would be about 5 years.
Are you serious? More and more Windows laptops at $1000-$1500 segment nowadays Come with 16GB of RAM, with many cheaper ones sporting that amount of RAM as well.
We are no longer in the 90s where RAM was ultra expensive. RAM and SSDs are cheap nowadays.