Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen ‘significantly’::A top Apple analyst said Wednesday that shipments for MacBook computers will decline around 30% year over year.
Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen ‘significantly’::A top Apple analyst said Wednesday that shipments for MacBook computers will decline around 30% year over year.
Well the surface pro 2013 launched with windows 8 amd you camnupgrade for free to windows 10 that ends support in 2025. So that is 12 years of support. You cam modify the windows 11 installer to install on a surface pro also
You can technically install MacOS on old, unsupported Macs too. I’ve never done it personally but I know people who’ve been running the latest software on long-unsupported hardware with no issues for years.
My MacBook Pro is 10 next year. It still does MacBook stuff last time I checked.
Like run XCode?
I had to search for how far back support goes for Sonoma, and it was surprisingly short.
I think Apple is intentionally shortening the support cycle right now to get everyone on ARM chips for a variety of reasons. They come with neural cores and are incredibly fast to their predecessors.
It’s tough to change architectures, and I think we’re frustratingly caught in the growing pains right now.
Official Sonoma support might be reasonably short, but if you’ve got a 2008 MacBook Pro, have I got some good news for you…
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Apple has done this multiple times. Power oc to Intel, 32 bit Intel support to 64bit Intel support to arm. They actually don’t care and just know their loyal base will buy up new hardware ro deal woth the changes
I’m confused. Are you upset that they’re switching to better chip architectures as they become available? Because you can still run Intel Mac apps with Rosetta and some of them actually run better now than they did on Intel hardware.
You’re complaining about something that’s just a byproduct of technological progress.
Speeding up the sunsetting of older devices isn’t a byproduct of technological progress, it’s forced obsolescence.
There is nothing preventing Apple from supporting their laptops and desktops for more than five years (since 2021, this is the average). But there are issues with Apple computers when they are no longer supported, beyond security.
https://www.macworld.com/article/673939/this-is-how-long-macs-and-macbooks-last.html
So don’t buy a Mac if you’re planning to run a laptop for 10 years? I don’t know what to tell you.