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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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I'm typing this on a ten year MacBook Pro that is running a currently supported version of MacOS and runs as fast as the day I bought it. I have two MacBook Airs that are eleven years old and still in secondary service. I have a pile of Dell and Lenovo Windows laptops of similar age that can still run but are basically doorstops or suitable for beater Linux or BSD machines, definitely not daily drivers.
Lucky you, I guess, because I sure haven't had such good fortune.
How is that possible? The almost-dead MacBook I mentioned is younger than yours and is stuck on Monterey.
Probably. I didn't say anything about how fast they are, because all common platforms in use today still run reasonably well on decade-old hardware.
If it had 10ish GB of RAM, at least. Browsers eat RAM like popcorn.
I'm guessing you didn't pay $2500 for them, though. That's down to specs, not manufacturer. Apple hardware is almost invariably high-spec and therefore quite fast, but Apple thankfully doesn't have a monopoly on fast computers.