Bravo to Apple for supporting, some, legacy products.
I would like to see them be a lot more ambitious on support of legacy hardware and software.
It would be the green move, keeping hardware out of the landfills (recycling is a joke) and preserving user access to software.
Frankly, Macs back to 2005 are all very powerful and useful computers so I would suggest moving the line back to that year at the very least and possibly further.
This benefits users, this benefits the environment but it also benefits Apple and stockholders since the used Macs get sold at a lower price and become a low cost entry level machine into the Mac world.
Something else that Apple could easily do is support legacy software all the way back to the original Apple I computer.
Apple has the resources to make this happen. In this realm, most importantly are a lot of educational software that got written in the 1990's and never created again. It is a shame that this is lost to history. The modern computers have the processing power to emulate the older computers and OSs while actually being faster in emulation than the old machines were in native hardware.
I would like to see them be a lot more ambitious on support of legacy hardware and software.
It would be the green move, keeping hardware out of the landfills (recycling is a joke) and preserving user access to software.
Frankly, Macs back to 2005 are all very powerful and useful computers so I would suggest moving the line back to that year at the very least and possibly further.
This benefits users, this benefits the environment but it also benefits Apple and stockholders since the used Macs get sold at a lower price and become a low cost entry level machine into the Mac world.
Something else that Apple could easily do is support legacy software all the way back to the original Apple I computer.
Apple has the resources to make this happen. In this realm, most importantly are a lot of educational software that got written in the 1990's and never created again. It is a shame that this is lost to history. The modern computers have the processing power to emulate the older computers and OSs while actually being faster in emulation than the old machines were in native hardware.