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More free OS updates? You can upgrade your PC from Windows 7 to 10 for free (even to 11 if you have TPM2). That will be decades of free updates and upgrades.
Not to mention Linux, FreeBSD, and the like.
Call me crazy, but I don't see people rocking laptops from 2008 until this date, I have seen people using Macs from that day using recent macOS versions (with OCLP) and some hardware tweaks like upgrading the RAM or SSD if needed, or replacing the battery.
Heck my Mac is from 2014 and it runs fairly fine.
I happened to sell an old PC recently, from 2010 IIRC. It had a Windows 8 license that could be "upgraded" to Windows 10 which would run fine on this machine until at least 2025. I think 15 years is quite okay. After that it could still run Linux like forever.
My 2012 MBP is still my daily driver. Before this every PC based laptop I had was lucky to make it 2 years
I just finally broke the charging port on my 2015 MBP. Otherwise, I’d still be using it.
Doesn’t it have MagSafe?
Yeah, the contacts are all worn down. I considered repairing it, but decided against it.
Daaamn fair!
I have an asus laptop from the windows 8 days, sticker doesn't even say 8.1. Can't run windows for shit anymore but it flies with linux, even distros with gnome. I think my toshiba was 8.1, that thing flies with linux too.
How is the ad display there in your start menu? On macOS here, no ad AT ALL.
True, in that order. Win 7, then 10, which almost doesn’t run because of hardware requirements, then all those Linux distros. You will be busy with installing and configuring these for decades, because it mostly doesn’t just work.
But it’s free, if you value your time to nothing.
With all respect, that's rubbish. I won't comment on this further.
Are you from 2003?
My windows experience is 😀