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Originally Posted by masraum
Your computers don't really count as they are anything but normal.
My wife is running a 7 or 8 year old Apple laptop, the least powerful one they made at the time, and it's running the latest release. 7 or 8 years is a LONG time in the computer world. It has not been my experience that Apple orphans stuff until it can't keep up. I did have (think I still may somewhere) a first or second gen iPad. Yes, that was eventually orphaned, but then it was old and woefully underpowered for the new stuff, so not a big deal. It still ran (runs) the last iOS that it ran.
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Apple's "end of life" for the OS is longer than MSFT's for Windows.
Apple average is 5 years or longer when the average lifespan of a PC is only 3-5.
Windows, especially 10, EOL is a bit obfuscated.
The major releases EOL in 1-3 years.
And when you consider that Apple maintained OS compatibility through 4 hardware architecture transitions, 68xxx->RISK Power PC->CISC Intel->M1 Silicone will maintaining legacy app support across 2 OS's, Classic Mac OS->.nix OSX, one really can't say Apple do not go above and beyond to keep older hardware viable.