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It's understandable that you wouldn't want to buy a new Mac just before they do a hardware refresh or something, but come on. At some point you need a new compu

• thaumaturgy 16y ago
  Like I said, it's not necessarily a rational decision, it's just that the pain of being invested into a platform only to have it become completely unsupported way before I'm ready to spend money on the Next! Great! New! Thing! has been burned into my brain. It's just not a hassle I need to deal with, not when I'm equally comfortable in Windows, Debian, or Mac. It might be understandable if this was some kind of resource-hungry multimedia application, but a text editor? Like you say, "come on". Also, Apple is notorious for wanting to own as much of their vertical as possible. They hate dealing with other companies for critical components, especially processors. They've become quite good at the processor transition at this point, and now that they own their own microprocessor and are using it in all of their mobile devices -- and touting the superior benefits of their processor every chance they get -- I'd be willing to make a pretty big bet that moving at least their entire laptop line over to the A series processors is already on their development roadmap. I think the writing's on the proverbial wall and, like I said, I'm just tired of getting caught by it every time it happens.