“macOS Sierra, the successor to OS X El Capitan, was announced overnight, but Apple is dropping support for multiple Mac models,” Stephen Withers reports for iTWire.
“The minimum configurations for macOS Sierra are the late 2009 MacBook and iMac, and the 2010 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini and Mac Pro,” Withers reports. “Reasons for dropping support for older models are varied. Some will suspect forced obsolescence, but that might just be a different way of looking at a decision that the absence of certain hardware capabilities (eg, Bluetooth LE) would detract too much from the overall user experience of the new operating system.”
Withers reports, “And it must be said that the performance of older models — especially those that had not been upgraded with additional RAM and an SSD — under recent operating systems left something to be desired.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Time marches on and, with tech companies that push the envelope, obsolescence comes soon enough, it need not be forced.