The last version of MacOS I used was $130 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger
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floo@retrolemmy.com 1 month agoI never said that. But it does show how this black-and-white all the nothing approach makes no sense.
macOS is free because it’s free.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 month ago
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
And in my original comment, I said they hadn’t charged for it in about 15 years. And it’s been almost exactly 15 years.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 month ago
Just because they stopped selling it doesn’t mean it’s free
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
It’s free because it’s free, not because you can’t seem to wrap your head around that fact. Or whatever pretzel branded maneuvering you’re trying to do to validate your position
macOS is free. There’s really no way you can twist that to be untrue. Not without making stuff up.
Tortellinius@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sure, and if you got Windows 7 in 2009 with modern hardware then you had up-to-date free Windows since 16 years.
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
So what? That still doesn’t mean that macOS isn’t free.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have a MacBook Pro 15” 2018. I paid around $3K for it new. What is the cost for me to update to macOS 26 Tahoe or the one that comes after it?
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
I’m running Sonoma on a 2016 MacBook Pro. didn’t cost me anything because macOS is free.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How much to upgrade it to Sequoia?
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
Also free. Because macOS is free.