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outsidetheknow · 5 years ago

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My 2009 MacBook Pro is 10 years old. 10 years was the difference between an IBM XT in 1985 & Mac LC II in 1995 & Dell Latitude in 2005, and the earlier computers would be unusable 10 years later. Meanwhile, my MBP (8GB RAM & SSD) is still fine as a modern computer via��/r/technology My 2009 MacBook Pro is 10 years old. 10 years was the difference between an IBM XT in 1985 & Mac LC II in 1995 & Dell Latitude in 2005, and the earlier computers would be unusable 10 years later.

#anybody?#Apple?Thoughts #as a 10 year-old computer in the past #as opposed to the garbage that is my 2017 MacBook butterfly mechanism)#because why not. I was curious how much life I could get outta &039;er #but besides that -- when thinking only about things like basic web browsing; Google Suite/Drive; iCloud web; Squarespace; etc -- apart from #for any and all tasks I throw at it.Sure #IFTTT #is truly astonishing #it&039;s legitimately more than capable.This #my chunky #my shiny new iMac Retina 5K 27" (early 2019) will blow its iMovie export capabilities out of the water (I clocked it at between 4-5x fa #plucky little "vintage" MacBook Pro from 2009 isn&039;t just able to do duty as a modern daily computer #reddit Pretty much what the subject line says. Talk about putting things in perspective.My trusty old MBP (mid-2009) was sitting more or les #say #so: 8GB RAM; 256 GB SSD; new battery.What&039;s astonishing is #the more I arrive at the same conclusion:But for the fact that Apple limited this computer to macOS El Capitan (10.11.6)#the more I use this computer just for novelty (and its amazing keyboard #this computer is otherwise completely capable of being used as a daily machine #to me #utterly mind blown. Bravo #would NEVER be able to hold its own in the present era.Color me completely

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