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I was mocking the consumer perspective but obviously HN is too sensitive... Not sure I trust Apple with longevity. Windows XP from 2002 just hit the dust and I

by bananas 12y ago

I was mocking the consumer perspective but obviously HN is too sensitive... Not sure I trust Apple with longevity. Windows XP from 2002 just hit the dust and I've got a decade out of RHEL. For something from 2007 to be a write off is not good IMHO. I thoroughly regret my MBP purchase for theae reasons.

pja 12y ago
By the time Apple drops support for your hardware you have a decent chance of being able to install a current Linux distribution with no hiccups and full hardware support, so all is not completely lost.
- bananas 12y ago
  Possibly right but I don't see how a piece of hardware that is pretty much glued together (as of recent MBA and MBPs) is going to survive that long to be honest.