I have an iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) which works great. Apple has determined that 7 years is to long to support such hardware. A waste of good hardware from my perspective. Is there a trade in program?
Also apple has stoped their productivity programs from working (like numbers, etc). The Microsoft programs work fine. I can't even get rid of the apple icons.
please focus on question 1, thanks
iMac Pro
MattAllison wrote:
I have an iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) which works great. Apple has determined that 7 years is to long to support such hardware. A waste of good hardware from my perspective. Is there a trade in program?
Also apple has stoped their productivity programs from working (like numbers, etc). The Microsoft programs work fine. I can't even get rid of the apple icons.
please focus on question 1, thanks
It's not quite that bad. I am still using a 2010 MacBook Air and a 2013 MacBook air, and we also have a 2016 iMac. As well as new models. The older versions of Numbers, Keynote, Pages etc. still do work. In fact the 2013 and 2016 models are on Big Sur and Monterey and can run modern versions of almost everything. The 2010 MacBook Air, like your iMac, is limited to High Sierra, which presents some challenges for web browsing with Safari (some sites will eventually stop working, but most still work under Firefox or Chrome) and also some security updates and certificates. So far I have found workarounds for virtually everything, however.
As for the hardware, although Apple no longer stocks parts for "obsolete" models, I have found that Apple Authorized Service Providers will work with you to replace worn out hardware in older Macs with third party replacements that are commercially available at low cost and work quite well in many cases. The 2013 MacBook Air recently had a new SSD and new battery put in, OWC sells such third party hardware, and in fact now the internal storage is double what it was and the battery lasts twice as long as when new. The cost was quite low overall, about $175 for everything including labor.
You will reach the end of the line, however, for a more major part replacement. For instance, we had a 2008 iMac working great (running El Capitan!) until the power supply failed. That part is no longer available in any form except maybe on Ebay so decided that was it for that Mac.
The trade in link provided by dialabrain will likely tell you that your model is too old for Apple to give you any sort of credit but they may offer to recycle it for you.
As for your iMac, if you can afford it consider a new M1 iMac. My wife did not want to part with her 2016 iMac but I sort of forced her to (I have rejuvenated it now with a new SSD to replace its old mechanical drive and I use it as a second computer) and she finds that the new M1 iMac she has is probably more than 20 times faster and more responsive than her old iMac was.
MattAllison wrote:
I have an iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) which works great. Apple has determined that 7 years is to long to support such hardware. A waste of good hardware from my perspective. Is there a trade in program?
Also apple has stoped their productivity programs from working (like numbers, etc). The Microsoft programs work fine. I can't even get rid of the apple icons.
please focus on question 1, thanks
It's not quite that bad. I am still using a 2010 MacBook Air and a 2013 MacBook air, and we also have a 2016 iMac. As well as new models. The older versions of Numbers, Keynote, Pages etc. still do work. In fact the 2013 and 2016 models are on Big Sur and Monterey and can run modern versions of almost everything. The 2010 MacBook Air, like your iMac, is limited to High Sierra, which presents some challenges for web browsing with Safari (some sites will eventually stop working, but most still work under Firefox or Chrome) and also some security updates and certificates. So far I have found workarounds for virtually everything, however.
As for the hardware, although Apple no longer stocks parts for "obsolete" models, I have found that Apple Authorized Service Providers will work with you to replace worn out hardware in older Macs with third party replacements that are commercially available at low cost and work quite well in many cases. The 2013 MacBook Air recently had a new SSD and new battery put in, OWC sells such third party hardware, and in fact now the internal storage is double what it was and the battery lasts twice as long as when new. The cost was quite low overall, about $175 for everything including labor.
You will reach the end of the line, however, for a more major part replacement. For instance, we had a 2008 iMac working great (running El Capitan!) until the power supply failed. That part is no longer available in any form except maybe on Ebay so decided that was it for that Mac.
The trade in link provided by dialabrain will likely tell you that your model is too old for Apple to give you any sort of credit but they may offer to recycle it for you.
As for your iMac, if you can afford it consider a new M1 iMac. My wife did not want to part with her 2016 iMac but I sort of forced her to (I have rejuvenated it now with a new SSD to replace its old mechanical drive and I use it as a second computer) and she finds that the new M1 iMac she has is probably more than 20 times faster and more responsive than her old iMac was.
iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) which works great.
