Those Intel Macs aren’t really that old. I had the last good MacBook Pro they made in 2015, which still had the glowing logo, then the the slump with the touchbar shits happened in 2016-2017.
In 2017 I traded the MacBook for a Dell XPS 13. Like the MacBook, the build quality is really good. It’s running as a server in my media room. I’m running Ubuntu and I open it up daily to acquire new media, organize files, tweak my Jellyfin settings, etc.
There is no reason that 2017 XPS laptop couldn’t serve as my daily driver. My OS is fully up to date and I applied a firmware update last night. The end of life for that device is nowhere in sight; it’s peaking honestly. But if I had kept the MacBook, which was the highest quality laptop hardware you could possibly buy, for a premium price, Apple would be telling me it was no longer supported?
Regardless, Linux rocks so I hope Mac owners find joy installing a fun new OS on their good quality hardware. Here’s to the next ten years of life!
Those Intel Macs aren’t really that old. I had the last good MacBook Pro they made in 2015, which still had the glowing logo, then the the slump with the touchbar shits happened in 2016-2017.
In 2017 I traded the MacBook for a Dell XPS 13. Like the MacBook, the build quality is really good. It’s running as a server in my media room. I’m running Ubuntu and I open it up daily to acquire new media, organize files, tweak my Jellyfin settings, etc.
There is no reason that 2017 XPS laptop couldn’t serve as my daily driver. My OS is fully up to date and I applied a firmware update last night. The end of life for that device is nowhere in sight; it’s peaking honestly. But if I had kept the MacBook, which was the highest quality laptop hardware you could possibly buy, for a premium price, Apple would be telling me it was no longer supported?
Regardless, Linux rocks so I hope Mac owners find joy installing a fun new OS on their good quality hardware. Here’s to the next ten years of life!