Re:The New MacBook Pros Mark the End of Upgradeable Apple Co...
by ableal on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @10:58AM
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My absolutely boring, "cannot complain of seven year ride", anecdata:
- Late 2009 white plastic MacBook, 320 GB HD, 4 GB RAM, cost 1000 euros, came with OS 10.5 or so.
Earlier this year tossed in 200 euros worth of RAM (8GB) and SSD (500 GB), because Safari was gagging a bit on too many tabs of modern web. Has been updated to the latest macOS at every release, Sierra included, no problem.
- 2008 or so vintage HP-tx laptop, 320 GB HD, 4 GB RAM, cost 700 or so euros on sale in 2009, came with Windows Vista.
Installed Windows 7 pro (BizSpark gift), upgraded to Windows 10 pro, with no problems (except Windows updates being painful in general ;-)
- Late 2009 white plastic MacBook, 320 GB HD, 4 GB RAM, cost 1000 euros, came with OS 10.5 or so.
Earlier this year tossed in 200 euros worth of RAM (8GB) and SSD (500 GB), because Safari was gagging a bit on too many tabs of modern web. Has been updated to the latest macOS at every release, Sierra included, no problem.
- 2008 or so vintage HP-tx laptop, 320 GB HD, 4 GB RAM, cost 700 or so euros on sale in 2009, came with Windows Vista.
Installed Windows 7 pro (BizSpark gift), upgraded to Windows 10 pro, with no problems (except Windows updates being painful in general ;-)