the key is "with linux". Try developing iOS apps or do anything within the apple ecosystem (e.g. check your photos?). Not viable for 99.9% of mac users.

My computer was too old for Apple, a characteristic similar to saying 90% of brand new laptops are too blonde. There are very few modern Apple development machines but anyone with an old desktop can make most modern software. (There are also plenty of exceptions where an Arm laptop isn't usable in software development, so nothing is universal.)

In case you're not aware: OpenCore Legacy Patcher

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32614135

https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/#readme

> running and unlocking features in macOS on supported and unsupported Macs

Thanks, I didn't know much about that and it could be helpful with relatives, etc.

Most of the Apple hardware bought for me has been by employers who understood I wasn't going to use Apple software. In the big scheme of things, it is better to have a reduced set of drivers and pay a bit more than have an employee fiddling on drivers because Acer skimmed another $1 off their motherboard cost.

Way faster FireWire and DVDR speed too

sure and no way to look at your photos in icloud, connect to music or interact with apple tv (or develop or test any app).

But sure, you don't need icloud if you got your photos on DVD right ?

DVD? zipdisk over firewire has all my sony mavica 640x480s.