re: #31 freetoken

I guess I’ve found just the opposite. My current old iMac has gone longer and been more supported than any PC I’ve owned, all the way back to the XT.

Can you install the newest OS on it? Upgrade your software to the current versions? Note I am making a distinction here between the hardware being good quality and Apple providing support and backwards compatibility for new software.

As an example, Apple decided to - with no warning - deprecate a particular set of APIs that let you copy a file of say, a graph, and paste it in another program and then ungroup the elements. Small thing, sure, but actually pretty vital to the workflow used in my lab, to graph NMR data and move it into Powerpoint for comparisons/prep for publication, etc. We found out when someone upgraded. The rest of us had a pretty serious problem at that point. I maintained a laptop running an old version of the OS and an old version of Office to get around it.

Windows, on the other hand, never really deprecates anything. Results in a mess for software? Yes. But it means that problems like what I described above are much less of an issue.