Q: Time nearing to replace early 09 MacBook
Well, my early 2009 MacBook, although still working fine, has reached a point where Apple doesn't think I should be upgrading the OS any longer (I'd prefer to make that decision myself, but oh well...) and I think I would like a newer one anyway. I was leaning towards the cheapest of the 13in models, the mid 2012, but my main concern with that machine is how long Apple will support it. My fear being that when it reaches 7 years from the release date, as with all the others, they will drop support, and we're already 4 years into that. I'd be livid if 3 years after buying it Apple no longer supported it with new OS releases. I also like how much more easily the machine can be opened and upgraded if I want. I'd be going for the i7,1TB HDD option if I got that MacBook Pro, I'd order it with the standard 4GB RAM and buy 16GB for it and install myself. I was also considering the 13in retina MBP, however two points steered me away from that, the first being that I insist on having 16GB of RAM up front since I cannot change this later on, and I have no desire to buy a laptop with a 256Gb drive, I want at least a 512 if not a 1TB, this limits me to the most expensive of the 13in retinas, and by the time I up the RAM, and choose the i7, I'm at the price of a refurbished 15in with 16Gb of RAM and a 512 SSD, and I'd be getting a larger screen, 4 core i7 instead of a dual core, dedicated graphics and so on, to me this squeezes the 13in retina out of my consideration, as by the time I set it the way I'd want, I could have a much nicer laptop for the same price. I guess my main question is, considering that I don't need something extremely powerful, as I have a 27in iMac at home that does all of the heavy duty type of work (editing videos) would I regret buying the cheap one in 2-3 years, or could I expect Apple to support it long enough that I could get at least 7-8 years out of it with current OS support like I have gotten with my early 2009 white MacBook?
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), Early 2009 white MacBook OS 10.11
Posted on Jul 18, 2016 10:57 PM