RE: MacOS support typically only goes back four years or five at most.
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I just hit the 6-year mark, so fingers and toes are crossed.
As are mine!
This is interesting: my daughter's 13", Early 2008 MacBook (purchased in August 2008) originally shipped with OS X 10.5.2 and maxed out at 10.7.5, while my 13", Early 2009 MacBook (purchased in February 2009, only 6 months later) originally shipped with 10.5.6 and maxed out at 10.11.6. Wow, that's an enormous difference!
I just upgraded the 2008 Macbook to a 13", Mid 2012 MacBook Pro (the one that was just discontinued in October 2016), because it was a phenomenal value, but I'm now scratching my head wondering just how long Apple's going to support it with macOS upgrades.
Oh, well... Worst case scenario is I'll have to make amends for shortsightedness by buying her a new Mac, which I'll do with a sad
, before the 2012 is dead.
