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https://www.pcmag.com/news/avoid-the-trash-heap-15-great-uses-for-an-old-pc
In 2019, after seven years of slumps, PC sales went up by the tiniest increment—0.3 percent. Demand then surged in recent weeks as people shifted to work-from-home setups due to COVID-19 quarantines. Which means some of you may be getting a new computer. But what do you do with the old PC?
You may be tempted to go the easy route and just junk it. But don't. If that laptop or desktop was created any time in the last decade, you'd be surprised by how much life you (or others) can get out of it. I'm not talking about limping along, but of ways to bring an old PC back to useful life.
[This editor can vouch for plenty of life in old boxes. For the past 4 years, a now-nearly-decade-year-old Core 2 Duo Laptop with 6 GB RAM has been my primary computer.--martyb]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 30 2020, @03:56PM (1 child)
To clarify. An "old" Apple computer is a modern Mac more than two years old. It stops getting OS updates. Which makes the browser stop working. (Because a browser should be hyper sensitive to which OS update it is running on.)
To make this travesty even worse, be sure to build the computer into the monitor so that a perfectly good monitor is discarded when the artificially life limited computer is discarded.
Complain if you want. This is my observation of modern Apple. Maybe I'm wrong slightly about whether it is two years or three. But you get my point.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by helel on Friday May 01 2020, @03:37AM
Hot damn! I knew this lockdown was messing with my sense of time but I had no idea 2012 [apple.com] was just two years ago!
I don't even know what I'd link to to demonstrate that older versions of Safari don't stop working without OS updates so, without sarcasm, you can run the latest version of Safari under the latest mac OS on most hardware up to eight years old and if you've got hardware older then that you may be limited to an older version of Safari for questionable reasons but you can still interact with the vast majority of online content without difficulty. I think there's a very reasonable argument that apple should provide support for their hardware longer but pushing out security updates for two older OS's running on machines from 2009 isn't exactly "two years or three."