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>and will buy old machines rather than deal with problems in that area Assuming that you don't find another alternative, then I assume buying old Macs would th
by gareim 10y ago
>and will buy old machines rather than deal with problems in that area
Assuming that you don't find another alternative, then I assume buying old Macs would then be okay?
I'm not sure what the rationale is for not buying one year old laptops if performance is about level (Skylake was not that earth shattering).
- protomyth 10y agoOk, not great and definitely under protest (I guess I scream at the ceiling). At some point, we might need to go to Win 10 and a built PC for Adobe. Might be good training for a PC Hardware class. Its one year closer to being EOL, plus Apple has been on a bit of a no software support for older models streak. The money needs to stretch as far as possible, we're not rich.
- lostlogin 10y agoThat streak of low/no support started around the time I was born. Their support of old hardware is better now than ever imho. It's a great time to own an old Mac as even the new ones are old, so you don't pay the penalty of having to upgrade which you did 5-10 years ago.
- protomyth 10y ago> Their support of old hardware is better now than ever imho No, it was way better earlier. We had some incredibly old PowerPCs running forever. Now, I have 64-bit Xeon boxes that aren't supported.
- lostlogin 10y agoRunning on the OS they shipped with or being updated? I recall hardware moving fast and machines becoming old quickly. Chuck Yager et al were the sort of software I was using at that stage, so take my memory with a grain of salt.
- protomyth 10y agoupdated - they did pretty well until the later Cat series of OSes.