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The thing is, in 4 years when your intel mac has run out of juice and you want to sell it, and expect it to have retained its value wel like Macs usually do, Ap
by jonplackett 6y ago
The thing is, in 4 years when your intel mac has run out of juice and you want to sell it, and expect it to have retained its value wel like Macs usually do, Apple will drop support for it and it will have zero value.
- asdff 6y agoApple lets you install the current OS on an 8 year old computer...
- SahAssar 6y agoProbably because there hasn't been a major architecture leap in that time. It's very different when going from 32-bit to 64, or going from x86 to ARM. Apple will want to phase that out as quickly as is acceptable to the public, and just like the PPC to x86 transition app developers will probably do it quicker than apple itself. So even if the OS might be updated for a while I think we'll pretty quickly see some apps that just won't run.
- jonplackett 6y agoThat’s what I mean though - yeah that has been the case, because they’ve been using Intel cpus for ages. But how long did they support PowerPC for? This time is different