Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by heavyset_go on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:42AM
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I can run Windows or Linux on any computer for decades if I want to, and I have. Software is not the issue. The issue is that Macs are artificially limited by hardware, not the software that they run, although macOS deprecation can be a limitation. Computers generally become obsolete because of hardware limitations, and Macs have had had limitations imposed by soldered components like memory for more than a decade, now.
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Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by justinator on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:59AM
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>I can run Windows or Linux on any computer for decades if I want to, and I have.
That's super cool, if that's what you're in to, but other than a small percentage of geeks, there's limited utility to do that for the majority of Macbook users. If you want to run a decades-old computer, then absolutely yes: there are much better computers to choose from, and at a good price (mostly free).
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by kube-system on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:52AM
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Non-Apple laptops have also been slowly moving to more soldered components. This will likely continue as memory timings and power consumption requirements continue to tighten. I remember when you could replace the CPU in laptops, however the benefit to doing so didn't keep many systems out of landfills.
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by mgkimsal on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:52AM
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Can you run modern windows on a machine from 2003? I doubt it would install.
Can you run winXP on a modern machine? Possibly, but most people probably shouldn't as there's no support for it any longer.