At what point will a 3.06 C2D become stale?

[shenfrey]

Providing all I do is browse the web and use apps from the app store, don't do movie editing or whatever, how many more OS revisions away am I from my late 2009 machine being unable to run them smoothly anymore?

 

[Feed Me]

2007 2.8GHz C2D here, and everything still runs as fast as it ever did. You've got a good few years ahead of you still.

 

[biohead]

Several years yet. If all you do is web browsing and simple apps, there's nothing stopping you staying on Lion if any new versions of OS X drop support for C2D.

 

[GGJstudios]

Providing all I do is browse the web and use apps from the app store, don't do movie editing or whatever, how many more OS revisions away am I from my late 2009 machine being unable to run them smoothly anymore?

I do a lot more than that on an Early 2008 MBP. It's far from being "stale".

 

[Kasalic]

I still use my late 2006 iMac every day at work and it performs absolutely fine. The only limitation is it's maxed out at 3GB of ram which makes running VM's a bit sluggish. For everything else it's still fine.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

2014. That is the year, when you will no longer be able to use the Mac like before. It will become stale then, not sooner, not later, then. But when exactly in 2014? That I can only answer for additional payment. Please hold your CC ready.

 

[Sirolway]

2014. That is the year, when you will no longer be able to use the Mac like before. It will become stale then, not sooner, not later, then. But when exactly in 2014? That I can only answer for additional payment. Please hold your CC ready.

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My mid-2009 MBP wants to know where you live, for dissing his generation.
It said something about 'still young enough to whoop some ass'