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I don't think there is a strict time cutoff, depends entirely on the hardware. In this case, they bothered to make this thing with decent build quality and for
by inflatableDodo 8y ago
I don't think there is a strict time cutoff, depends entirely on the hardware.
In this case, they bothered to make this thing with decent build quality and for that I thank them. It is even easily upgradable and the battery is accessable.
However, if I want dev tools to work on it, Apple requires me to use their recent OS, which they claim will not run on this hardware.
Now if they had a good point economically and it was a massive ballache requiring a lot of resources, then fair enough. But the patching utility appears to be the work of one person in their spare time, which in the grand scheme of things, especially since Apple is hardly strapped for cash and resources, does look like Apple have decided to economically obsolete this machine for reasons that have very little to do with it being technically obsolete.
- dymk 8y agoShould they just stop adding features to their operating system because somebody has hardware from 11 years ago, though? More features means more resource usage, more resources aren't something you can fix with software. Hardware today isn't the same as what existed back then.
- inflatableDodo 8y ago>more resources aren't something you can fix with software. That's why I put more ram in it.
- chronogram 8y agoA laptop from 2008 will still run Windows 10, including the features that are not allowed on but the more modern Macbook laptops like night light. Sandy Bridge laptops are not supported by Mojave and up, but will probably be softwarematically fine while continuing to get more features while running the latest versions of Linux or Windows. Amazing technologies like changing your wallpaper over the course of the day (GNOME in the '00s onward) or making your screen yellow are all supposedly not functional on macOS on those Sandy Bridge laptops.