Re: macOS support

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

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I'm not a big fan of Apple either, but do use it (primarily because
employers are more willing to support/allow Apple than Linux and I just
can't do windows, so lesser of two evils really).

However, I have upgraded my old mac mini to High Sierra with no problems. I
can't remember when I actually purchased it, but from vague memory, it
originally came with mountain lion, so that would be 10.8

I believe 10.12/10.13 are supposed to be supported on all mac mini, imac
and macbooks from 2009 models onwards.  My macmini is slow, but it was
always slow. I do run Emacs on it.

Tim

P.S. I also will be putting Debian on my Mini at the end of this year.


On 26 March 2018 at 13:14, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > Generally speaking Emacs and other GNU projects shouldn't bother
> supporting
> > platforms that are no longer supported by their original issuers.
>
> While I agree with this, by and large, there can be good reasons not to
> follow this rule when we disagree with the issuers.
>
> > For example, starting in 2014 we no longer needed to bother to support
> > IRIX, because SGI no longer supported IRIX.
>
> This a good example: I think SGI made a pretty good effort of supporting
> IRIX for as long as it could make sense, so I'm fine with dropping IRIX
> support at the same time as SGI.
>
> > As I understand it, Apple itself supports only the last three or four
> macOS
> > versions.
>
> Note that the issue is not really software support but hardware support:
> Apple is pretty aggressive about dropping support for old hardware in
> its newer OSes.  They could make OSX 10.11 work on my old macmini but
> decided it would be counterproductive for their business.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>
>


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regards,

Tim

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Tim Cross

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