Comment by d1sxeyes

7 hours ago

It is yours for as long as you want it, and it (mostly) runs all the software it was compatible with when you first bought it (there are some quirks around software you had access to but didn't install, like Garageband, where you may no longer be able to access the original version). Stuff doesn't just 'stop working', as a rule, but the rest of the world does move on. I'm not sure what you think should be done about that? All software should always be backwards compatible with older versions forever?

As a reasonable alternative, you can stick Linux on it and it'll run nicely, although with a different set of software to what you got the laptop with. 2026 is the year of the Linux Desktop!1! (in all seriousness though, it is actually quite good by now).

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gib444  5 hours ago

> Stuff doesn't just 'stop working'

They didn't say that. In fact they said the total opposite

> As a reasonable alternative, you can stick Linux on it and it'll run nicely

Somewhat true for Intel

Not so true for Apple Silicon (Asahi are only upto M2 I think?)

  • d1sxeyes  2 hours ago

    I did read between the lines here:

    > After that you essentially have to chuck it as you don’t get any updates from Apple and slowly you descend into incompatibility unless you world exists in browser.

    But I don't think the lines were particularly far apart.

    > Not so true for Apple Silicon (Asahi are only upto M2 I think?)

    M1 was six years ago, M2 was four, both within the seven years OP was talking about.

    You can run Linux inside a VM on any Apple Silicon Mac already, even if there is no progress on native Linux on Apple Silicon.