[OSX-Users] Re: RAM for a macbook

[Philip Boulain]

  On 23/08/2010 03:08, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> One of the things that has changed over the last few years is how long
> machines last. Used to be a couple of years, but a machine like yours, that
> was bought a year or two (or more?) ago, will still be good for maybe 3 or 4
> more years, unless you are doing fancy graphics processing (or similar) on
> it.

Bah, my main desktop machine dates back to 2002 or so. Since processors 
hit the one GHz mark and memory the 1GB, everything since has been fluff 
to get squandered, and fuel for the ravenous, unending hunger of the 
high-end gaming world.

There's no reason a MacBook Pro shouldn't be a perfectly functional 
machine for average use eight years from now unless Apple get all 
planned obsolescence about OS upgrades (since the Mac software world 
seems to very agressively drop support for non-bleeding-edge OS 
versions) or you can't be seen dead without the latest fashionable case 
redesign. ;)

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