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If you spent money for that lovely premium computer hardware they sell, you only get updates for a few years, if you bought it at the end of the cycle.

in a few exceptional cases around the very well known architecture transition that was announced in 2020. They will maintain older mac OSes that are intel compatible, so intel not completely unsupported.

Aside from that, Macs typically get many years of OS updates.

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If you spent money for that lovely premium computer hardware they sell, you only get updates for a few years, if you bought it at the end of the cycle.

in a few exceptional cases around the very well known architecture transition that was announced in 2019. They will maintain older mac OSes that are intel compatible, so intel not completely unsupported.

Aside from that, Macs typically get many years of OS updates.

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If you spent money for that lovely premium computer hardware they sell, you only get updates for a few years, if you bought it at the end of the cycle.

in a few exceptional cases around the very well known architecture transition. They will maintain older mac OSes that are intel compatible, so intel not completely unsupported.

Aside from that, Macs typically get many years of OS updates.

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If you spent money for that lovely premium computer hardware they sell, you only get updates for a few years, if you bought it at the end of the cycle.

in a few exceptional cases around the very well known architecture transition, and they will maintain older mac OSes that are intel compatible, so intel not completely unsupported.

Aside from that, Macs typically get many years of OS updates.

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If you spent money for that lovely premium computer hardware they sell, you only get updates for a few years, if you bought it at the end of the cycle.

this is not true, in the worst cases it’s like 6 years after the architecture transition. they are just now removing intel support in OS27. Also they are continuing to maintain older versions that are intel compatible.

But aside from the architecture jump, Macs typically get even more than 6 years of OS updates.

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If you spent money for that lovely premium computer hardware they sell, you only get updates for a few years, if you bought it at the end of the cycle.

this is not true. maybe you can point to a few exceptional cases around major changes like the architecture transitions. they are just now removing intel support in OS27, so that’s at least 5 years of major updates. Also they are continuing to maintain older versions that are intel compatible.

But aside from the architecture jump, Macs typically get even more than 5 years of OS updates.

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If you spent money for that lovely premium computer hardware they sell, you only get updates for a few years, if you bought it at the end of the cycle.

this is not true. maybe you can point to a few exceptional cases around major changes like the architecture transitions but the vast majority of macs get updates for many years.