Question: Is Your New Mac Future Proof?
We love our Macs. We keep them for years beyond what a typical Windows user would keep a PC.
When you buy a new Mac, is it future proof? How long will you keep it?
I ask that question because of Ken Mingis’ article in Computerworld Software. Ken tried out a 17-inch MacBook Pro.
He calls it as close to “future proof” as a computer can get. Is it? Are Macs more future proof than Windows PCs?
Future proof carries more than subtle meanings and may refer to hardware,.... (excerpted).
2 Reader Comments
David said:
I use what appears to be a very long lived mac. I have a powermac g4 that runs at 867 mhz and I just dropped in an ati 9800 graphics card and maxed out the RAM. In this configuration, it is still very fast. I use a high end viewsonic 20” crt type display. The colors are wonderful. Better than any flat screen I have seen. I do a bit of raw file editing and with the new ati adapter it goes fast. (except for the nikon software that seems very slow. I think there is a bug in that stuff. They do not admit leopard support) So, this baby looks good for at least another 5 years! 7 years and counting is pretty good, I think.
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Mr Squid said:
A US$2000 computer should last at least five years, which works out to roughly a dollar a day. If I can’t get at least that much useul life out of a machine I tend to feel like I did not get my money’s worth. This does not mean that the machine has to stay cutting edge for five years, it just needs to be able to do what I originally bought it for for that time.