I sure wish Microsoft felt that way. My Windows 98 machine is acting up again.
Posted on 06/22/2020 1:05:04 PM PDT by goldstategop
New Macs with Intel chips are still "in the pipeline" and the company is planning to support Intel-based MacOS computers for "years," despite announcing Arm-based Apple silicon.
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Biggest news out of the WWDC today is the long awaited merger of IOS, iPadOS and MacOS.
They’re going to have a similar platform no matter what Mac you run. Convergence of the mobile and desktop platforms are here.
I like the mac hardware but not the OS. I have a mac that can boot into windows 10. If they move to ARM, guessing that option goes away. I have an 11 year old mac that is still going strong. It’s outlived many other desktops and laptops. I did swap out the hard drive, but that’s all I’ve had to do.
They’re moving to ARM but Intel Macs won’t become obsolete for years. My guess is they’ll be supported for at least five to ten years.
Forv me, two best companies are Apple and Lenovo. My Thinkpad is still running strong.
Cool. I’ll probably buy a used one when this one finally dies. It’s amazing really. It’s almost as fast as my fairly new i7 laptop and the screen is stunning. I figure the performance is due to the (at the time) top notch dedicated graphics card and 16 gigs of memory. It was a gift from a former employer and I’m thinking it was at least a $4,000 machine back then.
Yeah, the move from powerpc to intel was with something called rosetta and “universal binaries” which were essentially two separate compiled apps bundled together.
Along comes Rosetta2 again with “universal binaries”. Seems like it was “follow a path we’d already been down.”
I sure wish Microsoft felt that way. My Windows 98 machine is acting up again.
Oh man, I loved my old IBM Thinkpads, but had to give those back with job changes. I did buy a Lenovo after the company was sold... but not the Thinkpad model. It wasn’t that durable. Fell apart in a year (cracking around the display and the keyboard). Oh well, you get what you pay for. Worst laptop I ever had was an HP (which was sad... since when Compaqs existed they were made in Texas)
I had to perform some rather intense driver work to update my old mac to work with windows 10. Used bootcamp intended for newer iMacs and pulled drivers out of them (since those versions of bootcamp won’t install on the older iMacs). The drivers were close enough (generic methinks) to the old hardware to work for video and sound. Dimming doesn’t work anymore, but no big deal. Needless to say, I backed the heck out of the configuration. Took me weeks to get it to work.
They’re moving to ARM but Intel Macs won’t become obsolete for years. My guess is they’ll be supported for at least five to ten years.
They supported the PPC Macs for about 1-2 years and then pretend they never existed. I believe you could go up to 10.5 with them. After that, done.
I expect the same with Intel
Interesting they are switching to their own cpus, good for them.
IBMs were good. The Communist Chinese Lenovo was and always will be a POS. Buy American. Hire American
I suppose that, to Apple, that's a problem.
Maybe they can push an update that slows it down?
“Maybe they can push an update that slows it down?”
The Core Duo chip is a monster of longevity. I have an early 2008 MacBook Pro. Updated the memory (RAM) to maximum 6GB and put in the SSD drives now very reasonable.
It runs better than new and I used an installer by a guy called Dos Dude to upgrade the operating system to Mojave.
She’s doing just fine as this message attests.
Linus Tech Tips at Youtube showed they could increase mac laptop performance by just cooling it better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlOPPuNv4Ec
Whoa what a moment... Is Ed Blumenthal Swordmaker? : )
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