• @sfxrlz
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    20 days ago

    Im running my 2015 mbp on the newest macOS and it’s still quite okay.

    • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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      720 days ago

      My wife’s 2019 16" MPB is running pretty great. Probably got another 5 years of life left in it. She uses it to watch YouTube and play Sims 4.

      My 2016 Acer Aspire V3-372T is hanging in there running Debian. 60 FPS YouTube videos are getting to be too much for it anymore. I may have to put the old girl to rest one of these days.

      But hey, it does play Minetest pretty flawlessly.

      • @[email protected]
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        420 days ago

        We have a 2010 laptop that was useless with Windows. Runs NixOS now. Wife uses it for youtube, zoom calls, email etc. It is super responsive.

        • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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          219 days ago

          I gave my brother my Sandy Bridge laptop that got me through college. New battery and charger and it’s all set. The 1366x768 resolution doesn’t render pages very nicely anymore, though.

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        119 days ago

        I envy you, because my 2019 MBPro has fans always spinning and it seems slow and bugged, especially with the latest macOS.

        Maybe I should just try formatting, but I don’t know if it’s worth the hassle.

        • @stellargmite
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          119 days ago

          My 2019 mbp is my work daily driver doing fairly heavy design , video, and blender work no problem. Runs well. Probably gets 6-10 hours a day of use. Video rendering a little slow but not egregiously so. It was upgraded to the max though. Its late 2019 intel. Not sure if its on latest OS but shouldn’t be too far behind.

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      720 days ago

      It still runs decently, I often forget it’s a 10 year old machine. I boot Ubuntu on it for work though, and boot Windows on it for the occasional game. It’s a useful machine.

    • joewilliams007
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      620 days ago

      with apple devices, they do have long update periode. But when its over, the device is basically trash.

          • @olympicyes
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            320 days ago

            I think you got downvoted because you put 2021 instead of 2012. Made the comment sound hyperbolic instead of factual.

          • @sfxrlz
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            119 days ago

            Yeah I mean mine isn’t fast but it’s still usable imo. The MacBook air 2012 was already particularly bad in its lifetime, I remember doing it support for the company I was working for at the time and the air 2012 were only used for lightweight stuff but already so slow.