this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
159 points (94.9% liked)

Asklemmy

43970 readers
1131 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy πŸ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Call me crazy, but I don't see people rocking laptops from 2008 until this date, I have seen people using Macs from that day using recent macOS versions (with OCLP) and some hardware tweaks like upgrading the RAM or SSD if needed, or replacing the battery.

Heck my Mac is from 2014 and it runs fairly fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My 2012 MBP is still my daily driver. Before this every PC based laptop I had was lucky to make it 2 years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just finally broke the charging port on my 2015 MBP. Otherwise, I’d still be using it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn’t it have MagSafe?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the contacts are all worn down. I considered repairing it, but decided against it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I happened to sell an old PC recently, from 2010 IIRC. It had a Windows 8 license that could be "upgraded" to Windows 10 which would run fine on this machine until at least 2025. I think 15 years is quite okay. After that it could still run Linux like forever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have an asus laptop from the windows 8 days, sticker doesn't even say 8.1. Can't run windows for shit anymore but it flies with linux, even distros with gnome. I think my toshiba was 8.1, that thing flies with linux too.