TXradio wrote:
"My 15" MBP is a mid 2009 Model that I picked up in early 2010. It finally stopped getting the current OS upgrades...Mavericks was my last one. But I'm simple gonna replace the dying battery...and get some more RAM and keep chugging along with my current laptop."As a Mac user for 30 years
(I don't do Windowz), one thing I often see users fretting over is "my computer has stopped getting updates !!!"
In my experience, "updates" on the Mac are nowhere near as critical as they are on a PC. You can run old software for YEARS and not worry about it.
My 2010 MacBook Pro still has 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) on it. That's now seven iterations (count 'em, 7!) out-of-date. Yet it still boots and runs fine (thanks to an SSD I put in it), and has NEVER had any malware of ANY kind on it. I never even used "virus protection" or any of that junk.
That doesn't mean I'm out-of-the-loop. In fact, I just installed beta 2 of the yet-unreleased "High Sierra" a couple of days' back on a spare hard drive I have. Seems to run ok, but I see no need to upgrade in a hurry. In fact this Mac Mini (2012) is still running the OS it came with (10.8.5). I have other drives I "switch boot" to during the day, just for a change now and then.
If you haven't yet done it, the BEST way to "get more" out of an old MacBook Pro is to put an SSD into it.
Cheap, easy, fast (use the RIGHT TOOLS). ifixit.com is the best place to see a guide on how to do it.
Just use CarbonCopyCloner to clone the contents of the old drive to the new one.
Then get a USB3 enclosure and keep the old drive as a spare.
BTW, the source article above is misleading.
Just about ALL the computer manufacturers are experiencing a slump, and Apple is actually doing BETTER THAN many of them.
For a better picture, I suggest you check this:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-mac-sales-stagnant-in-q2-2017.2056302/