Originally Posted by paqza
Apple's weird - I've been using Macs since 2006 and they've been super-reliable and the OS experience is honestly unbeatable but they're expensive and there was a long run recently where they had really terrible keyboards. My workhorse laptop is a 13" Macbook Pro I picked up off Craigslist for $625 with 6 months of the 1 year warranty still left on it. My photo-editing computer is a 2010 iMac I added some ram to, my parents still use a 2008 iMac, and my wife's 2010 Macbook Pro still works, even though the screen resolution is low. So my newest Mac is 5 years old and still running strong, and I'm regularly using a 10 year old computer. You're not going to see that with Windows machines.
Up until last year I had a few Windows laptops with Core 2 Duos from 2007 as backups at work and Windows 10 works smooth on it. It's easy to keep a computer running smooth - much easier than a car. Nobody wants to do it though and users regularly blame the software/hardware when the issue is between the chair and keyboard. If the laptop didn't look like 2007 then I would have kept them.
Latest Mac updates requires a at least laptop from
2012 or desktop from 2013:
MacBook (Early 2015 or newer)
MacBook Air (Mid 2012 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 or newer)
Mac mini (Late 2012 or newer)
iMac (Late 2012 or newer)
iMac Pro (2017)
Mac Pro (Late 2013 or newer)