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Re:Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel by ffsm8 on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @04:53AM (#44234257)
That's false, 2020 was the last year one was introduced - not phased out

Some resellers still have them in inventory, at least I came upon one a few weeks ago.

That makes it a 3 yrs EOL situation. Pretty terrible considering the prices of these devices.

At least the notorious Chromebooks were sold super cheaply (notorious for their non-existent update policies) - not the case here

They were also still being sold by Apple the last time I bought a MacBook pro, which was around 2022 iirc

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Re:Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel by goosedragons on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:06AM (#44235285)
Yeah, the 2018 Mac Mini was sold into 2023 and isn't even getting macOS 26.
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Re:Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel by fragmede on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @05:56AM (#44234752)
> ChromeOS devices receive 10 years of updates.

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en

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Re:Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel by ffsm8 on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @07:10AM (#44235318)
Yeah, that's post the controversy. Initially the vendors were expected to provide the updates... who obviously couldn't be arsed, so they set it to something around 1-3 yrs, which frequently went to 0 because the devices weren't sold quickly enough. That's from back when ChromeOS was initially put on the market, something around 2012-2015

Google thankfully relented and took up the maintenance burden, which ended with this policy

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