Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough

• Jtee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Nice attempt to justify planned obsolescence. To think apple hasn’t done this time and time again, you’d have to be a fool

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  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    👍 -posted from my ten year old MacBook which shows no need for replacement

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    • Jtee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And is what, 3 or 4 operating systems behind due to it being obsolete

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      At which point did Apple decide your MacBook was too old to be usable and stop giving updates or allow new software to run on it?

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      • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Still gets security updates. All the software I need to run on it runs on it.

        My email, desktop, and calendar all still sync with my newer desktop. I can still play StarCraft. I can join zoom meetings while running Roll 20.

        I guess if you need the latest and greatest then you might have a point, but I don’t . 🤷🏻‍♂️

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is pretty much it. People really just want to find reasons to hate Apple over the past 2 - 3 years. You’re right, though, your Mac can run easily for 10+ years. You’re good basically until the web browsers no longer support your OS version, which is more in the 12-15 year range.

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In fairness, most computers built after around 2014-2016+ last way longer, performance started to level off not long after that. After all, devs write software for what people have, if everyone had 128 gigs of RAM we’d load everything we could think of into memory and you’d need it to keep up

    Macs did have some incredible build quality though, the newer ones aren’t holding up even close to as well. I’m still using a couple 2012 Macs to play videos, it’s slow as hell when you interact, but once the video is playing it still looks and sounds good

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They will keep making the same comment as long as it keeps being true.

  • Typed from my 2009 ThinkPad

  Meanwhile your 2014 MacBook stopped receiving OS updates 3 years ago.

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  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Weren’t you just complaining about software bloat?

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      …no?

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I still have a fully functioning Windows 95 machine.

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  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s pretty sick actually

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