[OSX-Users] Re: RAM for a macbook

[Chris Andrews]

On 23/08/2010 16:33, Philip Boulain wrote:
> 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. ;)

The current crop of Macs are probably going to have a much longer shelf 
life than the ones from c2004-2007, which all had bad luck in terms of 
processor architectures. 2004-2006 PPC machines got dumped by OS X 10.6, 
and the 2006-2007 Core Duos are likely to be dumped by OS X 10.7 when it 
comes out. All the Core 2 Duos and onwards are fully 64-bit and so the 
machines dumped by OS X 10.8 are likely to be dumped by a very arbitrary 
rule.

Apple has also really slowed down OS X release cycles recently, so it 
may well be that something like my MBP, which was bought just before OS 
X 10.6 came out, might happily see another 2 OS upgrades.

Chris