Apple's most affordable MacBook ever appears to be a resounding hit with customers, based on comments shared by CEO Tim Cook this week. On an earnings call on Thursday, Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo has been "off the charts" since the laptop was unveiled in March. "We could not be happier with how things are going at the moment," he said.
Every OS version is then supported for about 3 years.
Define “supported”, because in my experience, you can’t run modern apps on older OS’s.
with the Intel macs there was usually a way to update it unofficially past the 7 year
Yes, there were a bunch of unpaid volunteers who made OpenCore Legacy Patcher, and extended the life of devices 10+ years further, which just makes it all the more offensive that Apple either couldn’t be bothered or (more likely) just wanted them to be unsupported so you’d have to go buy a new one.
I mean I ran my 2011 mbp into the ground, until the point that the SMC’s fan channels stopped working and it always rebooted at exactly 00:00 for no apparent reason, and never had issues with apps not being able to run on a 3 year old version of the OS. After that 3 year period most apps still worked, although some would indeed start targeting newer api’s.
I know it was volunteering work, and I don’t want to defend apple any further than strictly here, but saying they “murdered” the OS every 7 years is just straight up not true, that was all I wanted to say.
A 2018 MBP should be good for MacOS 15 Sequoia, which still runs updated Firefox. I’m still running Sonoma (the version before that) and I use Firefox as my primary browser.
Define “supported”, because in my experience, you can’t run modern apps on older OS’s.
Yes, there were a bunch of unpaid volunteers who made OpenCore Legacy Patcher, and extended the life of devices 10+ years further, which just makes it all the more offensive that Apple either couldn’t be bothered or (more likely) just wanted them to be unsupported so you’d have to go buy a new one.
I mean I ran my 2011 mbp into the ground, until the point that the SMC’s fan channels stopped working and it always rebooted at exactly 00:00 for no apparent reason, and never had issues with apps not being able to run on a 3 year old version of the OS. After that 3 year period most apps still worked, although some would indeed start targeting newer api’s.
I know it was volunteering work, and I don’t want to defend apple any further than strictly here, but saying they “murdered” the OS every 7 years is just straight up not true, that was all I wanted to say.
Mmk well. Not sure how you did that, considering my 2018 MBP wouldn’t even run Firefox anymore.
Even “murdered” W10 will still run pretty much all .exe
A 2018 MBP should be good for MacOS 15 Sequoia, which still runs updated Firefox. I’m still running Sonoma (the version before that) and I use Firefox as my primary browser.
use the old version you had on it