Nothing to do with “ageism”…
There was a joke in there somewhere.
To be honest, I do not like Windows at all.
AND; in spite of your link [to somewhere in Great Britain], I stay in the European Union, so would have to pay import tax.
Possibly for daft reasons: but, then, I don't like mushrooms or milk puddings either.
Also to be clear “obsolete” is a term Apple applies to their machines that are no longer supported and cannot be upgraded.
Indeed they do.
BUT, I do not require a machine that CAN be upgraded or is 'supported' by Apple. I need a machine that can do a few things on a list I have which none of my current machines can manage. That machine will 'do' me for a good 5-7 years from now as most of my target machines are Macs of that or earlier specs, or a variety of ill-assorted 'boxes' running a variety of Linux distros.
As my Devawriter Pro (my main thing) is FREE, if any one gets 'all peeved' that it will not run on a Mac ARM processor they can send me an ARM Mac or they can work out how to build a Mac ARM program from my [open source] code themselves.
Children in my school still go 'Wow!' and 'Gosh!' when they see my Polycarbonate PPC and Intel iMacs from 2005-6.
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