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You might only ("only") get ~7 years of OS updates. A bit of a shame if the hardware is still OK. My 2016 model is abandoned for macOS Ventura and will probably
by musicale 3y ago
You might only ("only") get ~7 years of OS updates. A bit of a shame if the hardware is still OK. My 2016 model is abandoned for macOS Ventura and will probably only get macOS security patches through next year. I'd probably pay extra for a macOS LTS that actually had 10 years of support. ;-)
I expect a lot of machines will be orphaned when macOS switches to ARM-only.
- tcmart14 3y agoIt sucks, but it is also good. I can pick up an intel mac mini for cheaper and cheaper and they make good little local area servers as long as you don't require them to be as fast as apple silicon.
- musicale 3y agoWhat OS do you run on them?
- tcmart14 3y agoI have a 2009 with NetBSD 9.3 and recently got a 2011 for under 50 that I installed DragonflyBSD. I use them primarily for ports development. They are not super fast, but good enough to build most packages in a reasonable time to ensure I've got the buildsheet/makefiles correct. Not a mini. But I've also got an iBook G4 that runs OpenBSD.