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Five years, hell three years out the mac hardware is obsolete and unable to use the newest OS. I hope your software is still supported on the old hardware! Ho
by r0s 14y ago
Five years, hell three years out the mac hardware is obsolete and unable to use the newest OS. I hope your software is still supported on the old hardware! How is your custom POS developer going to test for that by the way?
As long as we're pulling out anecdotes, I've put together PC's with that service lifetime, for use in business. I've serviced brand new iMacs that don't support certain printers, or other hardware, and the users of these require very much attention indeed.
- darkarmani 14y ago> Five years, hell three years out the mac hardware is obsolete and unable to use the newest OS. I hope your software is still supported on the old hardware! How is your custom POS developer going to test for that by the way? Why would their software suddenly stop working on old hardware?
- r0s 14y agoEdit: it's common for OSX to drop support for old hardware. It's also common for software to improve overtime with upgrades and bugfixes. Developers don't want to support old software indefinitely, unless you can do so with newer tools on newer hardware. Simply researching the limits of legacy systems is a massive waste of time, supporting them is a nightmare. Try to find a modern version of some software on OSX 10.4, for example. Development has likely frozen years ago, meaning bugs won't get fixed, security is out the window, and everything sucks forever.