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My GF Macbook Pro has reached end of life support (self.apple_enthusiast)

submitted 1 year ago by Dariusmiles2123 to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone,

My girlfriend has MacBook Pro from 2012 which has already been upgraded with more Ram and an SSD.

From what I understand, her OS (Catalina) has reached end of life in 2022 and doesn’t get any support from Apple anymore.

As that machine works perfectly, what should she do?

I hate Apple products (even if it’s painful for me to say that they’re good) and I’m a Linux enthusiast, so I’d tell her to install Fedora Asahi, but I wanted to know if the Apple enthusiast crowd had a better idea.

My girlfriend isn’t geeky at all (despite her geeky glasses) and she would want to stay in the safe environment provided by an Apple OS. But we also don’t want to replace that powerful machine as we hate programmed obsoletism.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

10 years of support. Not bad.

Just install Linux on it (if this is what she wants, regardless of if you think it’s better) or find a M1 MacBook Air for 7-800 if she wants a Mac.

I have a 2012 laptop, and upgraded to the M1 Air. Using the old machine is painful now, I didn’t realise how slow it was.

10-11yrs from a laptop is pretty great. I wouldn’t call it planned obsolescence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep I upgrade my SO's 2012 MBP and my 2012 Mac Mini to the M2 versions and it was amazing how large of a jump it was. I don't know if I will drag another 10 years out of these machines, I think I probably could but I may sell them off in like 5 years and upgrade if there is something worthy out there.

Would it have been nice for Apple to support them for an extra couple years? Yeah, but I'm sort of happy they forced me to upgrade as I too didn't realize just how much I was missing.