What do people do to their Macbook pros AFTER it stops receiving new OSX versions?

[niray9]

Assuming

1. The your Macbook pro is performing well
2. It meets your needs

What do people do to their Macbook pros AFTER it stops receiving new OSX versions?

 

[redheeler]

Install the "unsupported" version of MacOS. Planned obsolescence doesn't sit well with me.

 

[revmacian]

I always keep a machine until it no longer works. Lack of upgrades doesn’t magically incapacitate a computer.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Go here: http://dosdude1.com/software.html

And keep using the machine...
Very frequently, the "lack of support" from Apple is ideological and not a technical limitation.

Also - HUGE thanks to @dosdude1 for his work on these patchers.

 

[mightyjabba]

The dosdude1 patchers work better than I had expected. I have used them to install unsupported OSes on 2009 and 2010 MacBook Pros, and when you combine them with an SSD upgrade they are shockingly usable, and nearly indistinguishable from a modern Mac in terms of functionality (if not speed).

It should also be pointed out that you can keep using a machine for a long time even after it is no longer supported by the latest OS. What actually matters is when that machine stops getting security updates and new versions of things like Safari. So for the moment, High Sierra is still a very usable OS, but older ones are starting to run into issues.

 

[WhoNet]

Hang out with the cool kids in the forum "PowerPC Macs" and you do not
feel so old.

 

[Fishrrman]

Just keep using it with the "last, best" version of the OS that runs and does what I need it to do.
I'm not a "security snowflake".
I care NOTHING for "the latest and greatest", nor do I care about "security updates".
I do install them, but when they "stop being issued" for the OS version I'm using -- so what...?

(look at the avatar, and you'll understand...)

 

[Howard2k]

Assuming everything is running well, I would keep it until it ceases to qualify for security updates. Once that happens I would sell it.