My 2009 MacBook Pro is 10 years old. 10 years was the difference between an IBM XT in 1985 & Mac LC II in 1995 & Dell Latitude in 2005, and the earlier computers would be unusable 10 years later. Meanwhile, my MBP (8GB RAM & SSD) is still fine as a modern computer
Pretty much what the subject line says. Talk about putting things in perspective.
My trusty old MBP (mid-2009) was sitting more or less unused the last 7 years or so; but I ended up performing all the obvious upgrades over the years, because why not. I was curious how much life I could get outta 'er, so: 8GB RAM; 256 GB SSD; new battery.
What's astonishing is, the more I use this computer just for novelty (and its amazing keyboard, as opposed to the garbage that is my 2017 MacBook butterfly mechanism), the more I arrive at the same conclusion:
But for the fact that Apple limited this computer to macOS El Capitan (10.11.6), this computer is otherwise completely capable of being used as a daily machine, for any and all tasks I throw at it.
Sure, my shiny new iMac Retina 5K 27" (early 2019) will blow its iMovie export capabilities out of the water (I clocked it at between 4-5x faster; though I'm not even sure how impressive that is given the decade between the two), but besides that -- when thinking only about things like basic web browsing; Google Suite/Drive; iCloud web; Squarespace; etc -- apart from occasional latency and lag here and there when opening a bunch of tabs at the same time, say, my chunky, plucky little "vintage" MacBook Pro from 2009 isn't just able to do duty as a modern daily computer, it's legitimately more than capable.
This, to me, is truly astonishing, as a 10 year-old computer in the past, would NEVER be able to hold its own in the present era.
Color me completely, utterly mind blown. Bravo, Apple?
Thoughts, anybody?
Submitted September 26, 2019 at 05:29AM by AutonomousHoag https://ift.tt/2njQpJG
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