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Help me not hate Apple for obsoleting a perfectly good MacPro (2013) by ending updates.
< rant > I'm sitting at my desk kinda ticked off at the moment. My daily driver is a perfectly good MacPro (2013, Xeon, R2D2, Trashcan). 12-core Xeon, 64GB of RAM, FirePro graphics, healthy and happy. Except...Apple decided to cap this platform at Monterey. No updates beyond Monterey. Not just MacOS, they cap support for XCode at <v14, which is required for some homebrew implementations. I have a newer Macbook Pro, also Intel, that has newer OS support....but it is only a matter of time until they pull the same crap and end updates for it as well. The hardware is fine, performant, etc. Unless I'm missing something, my only sin appears to be not participating in the hardware refresh tempo that Apple's execs prefer. Is there a valid reason to orphan perfectly good hardware? Or, is it based more on their need for fanboy revenue? I'm voicing some frustration here I admit, and I apologize for that. I just cannot imagine why there isn't a way to run a more recent x86/Intel version of MacOS on this perfectly good hardware. If there isn't a decent reason, or a path to maintain some level of OS currency with this hardware I may just go back to Linux after 18 years on MacOS/Intel. Side note, I've been noticing a lot more bugginess or odd dysfunction on iOS as well. It's obvious Jobs is gone. It seems like Apple just shoots from the hip now. < /rant >4
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