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Re: old macs v newer macs


 

Dearest Jude,
I feel very outclassed to say the least.
Do not know what your qualifications are. Mine Best of year Organic Chemistry, MSc Pharmacology, Phd Organic Chemistry, NIH Postdoctoral fellow. Feel apple has, been wrong to me, but I was at a low point. You try living with Class A drug dealers, for 3 or 4 yrs. See how well you'd cope
John

On Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 02:04:34 GMT, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:


I did research. I always do research. I probably drive my husband mad with research before I make a decision to purchase anything in this house :-)
If you hadn¡¯t cottoned on to the differences in the specifications that would be annoying. You¡¯d not be the first though.?
I actually rang my fav techie before purchase and had a heart to heart about my iMac Pro prior to purchase purely because Apple has taken to putting adhesive in various positions inside and I wanted to know things could be got out and replaced if needed etc.?
He was able to tell me he had had open one in front of him that week with part supplied by Apple under warranty and it was no worries at all. So I felt a bit more confident about paying $7680 for it.
I would do the exact same study for any Mac any price just to know it would do what I wanted.?


Jude


On 19 Feb 2020, at 10:34 am, John Miller via Groups.Io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:

I can really see this backfiring in apple¡¯s face. I had no indication my iMac would be non-upragedable, whatsoever when I bought it. Absolutely zero on website. Why not just upgrade to a PC, run Ubuntu etc?. Apple's slowing down old iPhones & been fined for it.
apple admits to slowing down old iphones?BSc


On 19 Feb 2020, at 00:00, John Miller <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:

I bet apple has really made a lot of friends there!
John

On Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 23:23:07 GMT, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:


Currently I am hanging on to my old iMac i7 (I think 2011 vintage) because it runs all my old software (though I am considering a virtual box?on the iMac Pro with SL installed and run old software ).?

One thing to keep in mind if you have a more recent machine needing fixing it might be better economics and future proofing to go ahead and do the fix because ?that will run Catalina and 64 bit programs. ?If you go out and buy a cheap oldie replacement you risk being well left behind because an oldie just won't keep up and you'll very soon get frustrated as various bits of software just stop ?updating and Apple stops supporting..

Jude

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