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Subject: Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 04:41:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-06-05, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2025-06-05 10:54, rbowman wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 09:27:24 -0700, Alan wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2025-06-05 00:55, RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2025-06-04, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 02:43:19 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It is macOS that is “different” from how people expect a “Unix”
>>>>>> system to behave, not the Linuxes and BSDs. Offering a choice of GUIs
>>>>>> (or no GUI at all), is part of how people expect a “Unix” system to
>>>>>> behave.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/29/macos-26-rumored-to-drop-support-
>> for-
>>>>> these-macs/
>>>>>
>>>>> I was surprised by that. Like the Windows 10 people who can't go
>>>>> forward it sounds like Apple amy cause people with older Macs to go to
>>>>> Linux.
>>>>
>>>> Since Apple sells both the hardware and OS, it seems even more
>>>> self-serving for them to "obsolete" their older Macs — although
>>>> Microsoft might as well own the OEM PC hardware market since they have
>>>> a near strangle hold on it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You're kidding, right?
>>>
>>> The latest OS is macOS Sequoia 15.5...
>>>
>>> ...and it's compatible with Macs going back as far as 2017.
>>>
>>> 8 years of support is more than reasonable
>> 
>> https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/05/28/macos-26-may-not-support-2018-
>> macbook-pros-2019-imacs-or-the-imac-pro
>> 
>> Unless you have a 2020 Intel MacBook Air...
>> 
>
> That is a speculation about what "may" happen in the future.
>
> Why don't we just wait a few days and find out?

It's coming from Apple Insider. I'm guessing it's probably true, considering 
Apple's desire to get away from Intel CPUs. But even if not true, there's a 
lot of good working Mac hardware already no longer supported. (A lot of them 
are now running Linux.)

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