If by legacy peripherals you mean a keyboard (how are those USB-C keyboards you are using working for you? Oh, they don't exist?), wired mouse (yes they are more reliable in my settings due to interference), or ethernet (because wifi doesn't come close to gb switched ethernet in real life), or the ubiquitous thumb drive (yes they suck, but the entire world depends on them) then yes, legacy peripherals...
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Apple to Obsolete Select 2009 to 2011 Macs at End of Year
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If by legacy peripherals you mean a keyboard (how are those USB-C keyboards you are using working for you? Oh, they don't exist?), wired mouse (yes they are more reliable in my settings due to interference), or ethernet (because wifi doesn't come close to gb switched ethernet in real life), or the ubiquitous thumb drive (yes they suck, but the entire world depends on them) then yes, legacy peripherals...
Love the MacMini...I have six of them at home, going back to the 2005 on PPC. Awesome little machines that do all the work I need...it's how I became a convert.
Wife has a late 2013 MBP...16GB, 500Gb SSD. Awesome machine.
Early 2011 MBP here, SSD and 16GB RAM. Running better than it has ever run when it was new (except maybe under Snow Leopard). Even running Sierra.
Apple the greediest company on the planet wants you to throw away your perfectly functioning products and keep buying unnecessary new thin garbage from them
they will not fix or release parts for a more then 5 years old product - this is called EXTORTION
it reflects what the Schiller said in one of keynote, insulting people who were using 10 year old computers
I hope someone fires Cook, Schiller and the entire board asap
they will not fix or release parts for a more then 5 years old product - this is called EXTORTION
it reflects what the Schiller said in one of keynote, insulting people who were using 10 year old computers
I hope someone fires Cook, Schiller and the entire board asap
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I feel bad for the folks with 2011 MBP's - I got a longer run with my 17" 2008 MBP - only got dropped before Sierra (but, of course, it's running Sierra just fine).
Thus far, for those of us with unsupported Mac's, it hasn't been that difficult (for Penryn and newer) to keep them on the latest OS and updates. Those folks looking at official support being sunsetted....take heart - unless Apple puts a concerted effort forth to shut us out, you'll still have a workaround or three.
Thus far, for those of us with unsupported Mac's, it hasn't been that difficult (for Penryn and newer) to keep them on the latest OS and updates. Those folks looking at official support being sunsetted....take heart - unless Apple puts a concerted effort forth to shut us out, you'll still have a workaround or three.
I agree with you, it kind of sucks that those things will be more difficult to use.
However, it is worth appeasing 1% of users by burdening 99% of users. For the majority, bluetooth keyboards and mice work just fine. Most folks don't have major interference issues with them.
If your file transfer speed needs are so huge, then you'll surely appreciate the 40gbps i/o of Thunderbolt3, which will beat your switched ethernet connection many times over. And if your file transfer speed needs are so huge, then surely you will not mind the business expense of paying for such ludicrous speed.
Thumb drives though... we do use those a lot. My company probably spends thousands of dollars annually on essentially throw-away thumb drives for one time use or for mailing someone a file in a situation where web transfer cannot be used. In those situations, I think we can learn to live with a dongle until USB-C or whatever the next great thing becomes as ubiquitous.
the only thing that Apple has left is MAC OS X.
That's basically it, they have NOTHING else left.
I wish some company would make an equal or better MAC OS X so we call all switch IMMEDIATELY from GREEDY Apple and use the Intel Skull Canyon or Lenovo Tiny or HP Z2 mini
These companies produce great UPDATED hardware, at a fair price, where you can easily upgrade your RAM and HD in 30 seconds.
Tim is greedy and incompetent, he should leave immediately
That's basically it, they have NOTHING else left.
I wish some company would make an equal or better MAC OS X so we call all switch IMMEDIATELY from GREEDY Apple and use the Intel Skull Canyon or Lenovo Tiny or HP Z2 mini
These companies produce great UPDATED hardware, at a fair price, where you can easily upgrade your RAM and HD in 30 seconds.
Tim is greedy and incompetent, he should leave immediately
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The Apple business model is now to only invest in things with maximum margin. They're withdrawing from putting their customers first. All about the bottom line.
Eventually, we'll all become disenchanted enough to leave them...this creates an opportunity in the market for another company to step up with an exceptional customer centric business model and cause a paradigm shift.
- Bluetooth
- Bluetooth (A BT2.1 mouse doesn't even have much interference)
- Agreed
- Who uses thumb drives today? I have not seen one since 11th grade..and I'm now a junior in College.
It would seem "legacy" is now loosely defined as all of the things that people currently use with their computers.
We're in the unique situation where almost everything you can buy on the market is considered "legacy" while "current" has not been adopted for nearly anything. How strange.
I don't know where you don't get it.
Sorry, I think you got totally lost in this conversation. My responses were and are to the "Let's support Apple" posting to which I answered
1) They have billions and thus don't need our support.
Right now after using Apple products since 1984, They will not get any of my money/support, unless I see a worthwhile product.
iPhone 7 is not it, aWatch is not it and the latest MBPs are not it. (Just for what I want)
All my other Apple stuff works and I "supported "them since 1984.
What has any of that to do with being rich (which I am not, only in experience
?
you're not a fanboy. you're someone who has a legitimate reason for the computer you use.
Fanboys are the people who formulate their godly opinion of <company> and it's products without knowledge to back those opinions.
Yeah. Dear Schiller: My 2003 Dual Processor G5 still kicks ass. It weighs 50 lbs and runs Tiger and Pro Tools 7 with 16 channels of 24/44.1 i/o at once. Using a Firewire 400 interface. My 2005 PPC Mini with 1GB RAM and Tiger? Kicks ass.
My 2012 i7 Mini's with SSDs? They kick the ass of almost everything you make. Make something better than these w/o throttling due to overheating issues and failing mobo's and I'll buy it.
I think that's the future now. Small increases only.....
to be fair, neither will Microsoft....
You assume it was pre built! LOL!
I would never buy an off the shelf windows PC... better to make one yourself in a lot of cases. You get the machine you want - no compromises.
I would never buy an off the shelf windows PC... better to make one yourself in a lot of cases. You get the machine you want - no compromises.
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I work in IT. I used a USB thumb drive when I had to drive 2 hours to a remote site to upgrade a router. The image was 400megs. Much faster to use a thumb drive and drive there (I had to be there for other reasons) than to copy it. But what do I know? I'm not in college.