I upgraded the HDD several times (started life as a 256MB HDD).
This machine has a full compliment of ports with NO dongles needed! I upgraded the ram over time to its max 16GB. This machine was the last of the totally user repairable notebooks Apple made. Without question, a fine example of solid engineering. My daughter gave me this machine as a christmas present in late 2012. I know dosdude1’s enablers are a thing but I don’t see a future where Apple doesn’t sign the OS releases once fully transitioned to ARM and intel is no longer supported, in the same matter as iOS devices.I am among those still using a mid 2012 non-retina 15" MBP.
This is entirely arbitrary and idk if we’ve seen this brazenness from Apple before in terms of their Mac OS compatibility list Last time they cut off support for Mojave’s release, the rationale was that their GPUs didn’t support Metal. My thinking when buying was that Apple would support all of them equally (for however long they intend to support intel) since they’re all 8th gen and support the same tech and instruction sets, etc, but that logic just went out the window. What concerns me is that I just bought an Apple refurbished 2018 MBP (fully expecting the ARM transition) with an 8th gen i5 and I very well may get less supported years than the 20 8th gen i5 models, even though it outbenchmarks them in certain areas, which is exactly why I bought it.
My parents aren’t savvy, they don’t care what OS they’re running, the only time they upgrade to new OS versions is when I visit and do it for them. Hell, my gaming desktop is a haswell 4790K with a 2070 Super and would barely meet apple’s definition of compatible, but Apple is gonna Apple there. The late 2013 isn’t even on the obsolete list yet. Their options in 2014, as sold by the Apple store, were a 2014 year entry level dual core 22” iMac, late 2013 22” and 27” quad core, and 2014 high end retina 27 inch, right when those were brand new. The list of supported iMacs for Big Sur is concerning, and frankly horseshit to me. I’m going to paraphrase a comment I made in /r/macOS: This subreddit is not endorsed or sponsored by Apple Inc. If you'd like to view their content together, click here. This fundamental difference in audience is why we support two communities, r/Apple and r/AppleHelp. Apple SubredditsĬontent which benefits the community (news, rumors, and discussions) is valued over content which benefits only the individual (technical questions, help buying/selling, rants, etc.). Comments that are spreading COVID vaccine misinformation/claims are not allowed.Īsk in our Daily Advice Thread or in our dedicated sister sub /r/AppleWhatShouldIBuy! See also the iPhone Upgrade Wiki for more information.These belong in the beta subreddits listed below.
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