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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
And honestly, the biggest hurdle is I don't want to dick around setting up a new system. If I had to upgrade a perfectly working car every 10 years because it's "no longer supported," I swear I'd start walking everywhere. (Yes, I know that is exactly what is coming) I'm going to hang on to this baby as long as I can, but I'm afraid someday soon my hand will be forced.
So - what are my Apple options?
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In a way it's a blessing in disguise that new OS'es aren't supported on your older system, Apple is infamous for slowing down the old machines with their updates (not just accidentally or due to new tech, they got sued for that and lost). Even if you could upgrade that, don't.. Ditto on alternate softwar eif need be, Libre office works well, moneydance for quicken, etc...
There are adapters for usb to USBc... In fairness the upgrade from old mac to new mac is pretty sweet, last time I did this for the wife it took care of copying everything over, all by itself, with both machines side by side. It offered on startup. Took like 3-4 hours but I did nothing except buy a USBc card reader. So you could upgrade and be good for a bit.. If you don't mind the captive ecosystem and entering an apple Id every 10 minutes ;-)