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My 2010 x86 MBP still receives MacOS updates and runs every piece of software just fine. With the browser being the most important software for the target audi
by LeonM 3y ago
My 2010 x86 MBP still receives MacOS updates and runs every piece of software just fine.
With the browser being the most important software for the target audience of a chromebook, I think the life could be expanded a lot as long as you can update the browser. Sure, you won't receive OS security updates, but browsers do a pretty good job at sandboxing anyway. A 15 year old laptop with a modern browser should be plenty secure as long as you do everything in the browser.
Obviously, you don't want to do any professional work on a 10 year old laptop, but for the chromebook audience why not?
- treprinum 3y agoDoes it? My rMBP from 2012 is no longer officially supported since Big Sur (due to a WiFi adapter incompatibility of all things). Not that I have any use for it but it's just a decorative element at this point.
- presbyterian 3y ago> My 2010 x86 MBP still receives MacOS updates Not from Apple it doesn't. The latest MBP to officially run macOS Mojave, which came out in 2018, is a 2012 model: https://support.apple.com/kb/sp777?locale=en_US https://support.apple.com/kb/sp777?locale=en_US macOS High Sierra was the last one to support 2010 MacBook Pros: https://support.apple.com/kb/sp765?locale=en_US https://support.apple.com/kb/sp765?locale=en_US
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoDo the older releases still get security patches?
- presbyterian 3y agoIf I remember correctly, you get about 3 years of security updates, because Apple provides updates for the 3 most recent macOS major versions