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Re:iOS 11 reviewed by smitherfield on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @06:29PM (#15289366)
I am admittedly pretty solidly middle-class, but I've never had a non-Apple computer last anywhere near 5+ years, so I'd say they were still getting a pretty decent deal relatively speaking.

But in any case Macs and iDevices are different; Macs tend to stay backwards-compatible for quite a while longer. 32-bit apps still work fine and will as long as Macs are on Intel processors. Even Carbon[1] apps still work (compiled as x86 binaries) on the latest MacOS, and those will also run (compiled as PPC binaries) on MacOS 8.1, from 1998.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API)

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Re:iOS 11 reviewed by gigatexal on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @10:50AM (#15294352)
Next year my mid 2013 MacBook Pro will be 5 years old and the thing still smokes most lesser PC laptops. The battery still has more than 50% of the charging cycles left and it all runs really well. I figure I’d keep it until it died which could be another 5 years.
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