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Originally Posted by CommonReader
Owning iOS, Android and Windows stuff I don't buy the argument that Apple's products last longer than those of other companies. I still have a Vaio running Windows XP at home that was bought at some time in 2003. It runs all sorts of periphery from an old Minolta slide scanner that uses a SCSI interface (!) right up to the latest colour laser printers. Is there anyone here who wants to tell us about the 2003 Mac they still have in daily use? People don't even recall the name of Apple's system that was released at that time while XP has been an enormously durable investment. It's no surprise that still about 30% of PCs run it globally.
Apple will also ruthlessly drop support for standards that they promoted in the past. Firewire? Oh, sorry, we don't use that standard any more but we will happily sell you a little piece of plastic for 50 € to make it work.
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Yes... 2003 Mac in daily use... works fine, runs last non-Intel version of OS X fine, MSO, LibreOffice, CS, Mail etc together with external drives, printer (brand new multi-function), wi-fi, broadband etc... and why would I need to remeber the name of the OS when I know the version which is much more accurate...
3 Windows PCs in same period - 2 motherboard failures, 4 hard drive failures (twice for one), one screen failure - resulting in 2 piles of spare parts and sell off of the final one and my other Mac runs multiple versions of multiple operating systems fine. Glad your Vaio still works fine... and of course you can let us know all about the many current PCs supporting SCSI, UltraScsi, Firewire and many other past standards... non-Apple PC manufacturers are just as good at dumping older standards for connectivity (and anything else they fancy)...
