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I'd say six years of OS upgrades before being EOLed is a pretty good deal. That said, my primary machine at home is an 07 Macbook so I have a little bit of envy
by lysol 14y ago
I'd say six years of OS upgrades before being EOLed is a pretty good deal. That said, my primary machine at home is an 07 Macbook so I have a little bit of envy going on.
- danieldk 14y agoIf you bought a 2008 Mac Mini, you are not so lucky. But how bad the effect of the new requirements is, remains to be seen. If Apple provides security updates for Snow Leopard and Lion for some years and if software remains compatible with those versions, it's not so bad.
- Flow 14y agoEarly 2008 MBP is ok for ML. I guess I was a bit lucky there since I got 64-bit EFI in it.
- grecy 14y agoOf course, EOL is a huge exaggeration. I've been running a machine with 10.5.4 on it for 3 years, and just 2 days ago got a brand new Air with 10.7.x I notice some differences, sure, but nothing that makes my old laptop "obsolete" or "EOL" compared to the new one. The real difference is the new machine has twelve times more storage, 4 times more RAM and another CPU core.
- X-Istence 14y agoI've got an 2007 15" 2.4 Ghz MacBook Pro and it is still supported by Mountain Lion... It is still my primary machine (well, I've got two of them actually).