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This opinion is ignoring the fact that Apple's build quality and long-term compatibility keeps their machines alive and useful longer than most other machines o

by asguy 4y ago

This opinion is ignoring the fact that Apple's build quality and long-term compatibility keeps their machines alive and useful longer than most other machines out there. Lenovo/IBM not withstanding. The used market shows this.

josephcsible 4y ago
When I think about the build quality of MacBooks, the first three things that come to mind are the displays spontaneously shattering, the butterfly keyboards, and Flexgate. As for "long-term compatibility", consider the Mac Pro for sale in mid-2013. The latest version of macOS it can run is Mojave, which went EOL in 2021, for a total of 8 years from purchase to no more security updates. Compare this to PCs, where Windows 10 1809 runs on computers from 2015 and won't go EOL until 2029, for a total of 14 years from purchase to no more security updates. Or to really drive the point home, compare it to Linux instead. It still supports the 486 processor, launched in 1989 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbp_KQ4a2DQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbp_KQ4a2DQ shows that it really does still work), and AFAIK there are no current plans to remove it. And even if it were to be removed from Linus's tree today, the last CIP SLTS kernel would keep it supported until 2031, for a total of 42 years from purchase to no more security updates.