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Old May 30th 21, 07:50 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Bill W
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Default Apple Macs: Can't upgrade, can barely repair them.

On May 30, 2021, nospam wrote
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In , Alan Browne
wrote:

I doubt I'll do as well trying to sell this iMac, however. The jump
from intel to Mx will make this a dinosaur fast.


only because intel has stagnated for the past decade.

already, the m1 macs, which are low end entry level computers, have
pushed existing intel pcs into the endangered species category.


It’s also going to push some of their own products to undesirable status.
One thing that will delay Intel’s and Windows' ruin is that fact that so
many people don’t need any more performance than they have, and lots and
lots of people simply don’t want to change OS's from something they have
become very familiar with over many years. It’s been a bit time consuming
for me, and I'm at least somewhat tech savvy. I’m sure I’ll be switching
to the M1 at some point, or adding it, but I’ll probably take a pretty big
hit on the MacBook when I sell or trade it. It’s already 1k.

And my ~1 year update on the MacBook for anyone interested: it does, as they
say, “just work”. The only problems I’ve had have been the native mail
client, and that seems to have sorted itself out, and the spinning beach
ball, but I leave lots of windows open in Chrome, and it mostly happens
working with one specific app, so that could be the sole blame. It has sort
of crashed once or twice, but rebooting cleared I up. Windows remains a
continuing nightmare, especially their updates.