Progress like below cannot be currently achieved outside of SoC, APU and Heterogeneous System Architecture without resorting to increased power consumption. There are places on Earth that energy costs way more than what your community complains about.
People like new unique attractive designs. Why willingly pay for the Apple tax?
That's why certain cars cost more even when it takes the same time between point A to B.
That's the key selling point for
shallow people like me?
When the performance is "good enough" we look for other qualitative and quantitative points to base our purchases on.
The iMac M1 SoC more than halved its power consumption while increase its raw performance and had a 2" screen size imporvement at the same $1299. That's materially... wow!
Computers you want repairability for do not sell all that well or cost more to make. Thus worse margins.
All the Apple hardware I have only suffered damage due to clumsy users.
I'd want to replace the over decade old iMac for the following reasons
- no more official macOS support for approaching a year
- wear & tear from ~8hr/day approaching 4,000 days of use
- more than halving power consumption
- tax deductible expense
Macs wouldnt sell all that well if it wasn't for its stellar industrial design. It wins awards for them. It is a material point. Why else do you think more aesthetically pleasing persons are treated well, paid better and fawned upon?
If I could SaaS my hardware I'd do it. That's what I am doing with my iPhone's 24 month telco contract. Once done I get a new $1099 Pro Max.
1st half of my post I provide direct answers to their questions with links to video tutorials and preferred parts.
I also point out that that their hardware's actual/projected timeline of end of Security Update support.
Being made aware that the OS has been abandoned is the benevolently responsible thing to do. Not everyone is aware of that and better to disclose that fact and provide official alternatives should be a fostered behavior. Personal and financial data are important. It may be cheaper to buy a new Mac than to deal with identify theft.
In the 90s replacements were every 3 years. Apple observes that Mac users replace every four years. Intel sees their users replacing every 5-6 years.
The 2012 is more than a decade old. It isn't unreasonable to point out that there's a new model that may possibly show up 2-4 months from now.
Money that would have gone to parts for the 2012 could be used for the 2023.
I had a 2007 iMac 20" 65nm. I wanted to crack it open and replace the dead PATA HDD with a CF card with PATA adapter and upgrade the Intel C2D to a Core 2 Extreme.
I was talking to a buddy about this project and he politely pointed out to me that the money I intended to buy those parts with & the selling old iMac 'as is' could go towards a downpayment of a 5nm Mac that I'd likely use 100% of the time for another decade.
Money-wise he made sense considering I'm upgrading a computer as old as the original iPhone.
There are collectors into buying old hardware. So why not make myself and them happy by selling?
