But they're well out of warranty and especially with the discrete GPU models, due for hardware failure of various types.
Spending significant money on a 5-6+ year old computer is IMHO a fools errand. Its not like the current iMovie is as simple and powerful as it used to be.
Office 2011 for mac end of life Pc#
HINT: You can edit 5-minute videos on a cheap generic PC with a copy of Premiere Elements. Classic 'never looking beyond this quarter' thinking. Trouble is - the advice to the original poster should be "get a Mac Mini or MacBook Air as an 'as new' Apple refurb" - but sadly Apple are doing a bang-up job of "pulling up the ladder" by letting these crucial entry-level products get woefully out-of-date while releasing "replacements" at far higher price points. Never say never, but I don't think I'd pay more than £500 for any old computer - and looking on eBay that looks borderline for a decent 2011 iMac.
Office 2011 for mac end of life software#
£500 for a second-hand iMac, £200 for a SSD, £80 for TB-to-USB 3, £50 (say) for RAM all at once -> over £800 on a machine that - if nothing else - will probably lose software support sometime in the next 3 years. Even if you're, say, debating spending £200 on a new SSD, the basic computer is essentially paid for, so it's like spending £200 for (hopefully) another 3 years' happy computing.Ĭ.f. You already have the machine, the purchase price you paid six years ago is well and truly a "sunk cost" and you've pretty much had your money's worth out of it. Yes, but "should I keep using the 2011 Mac that I've had from new & upgraded over the years" and "should I pay £££ for a 2011 Mac of uncertain provenance + several must-have upgrades" are very different economic propositions. I personally like keeping the old Apple computers around, modern antiques. It just means you may not be able to access the internet or have limited functionality, because Safari from 1995 can't read HTML5 and no one is updating a version of Safari to work on your computer. That doesn't mean it can't continue to function for your personal use, to type up letters on your outdated version of Word for Mac, or play music through that iTunes program you downloaded twenty years ago. The practical issue for any computer is the operating system, and whether it can continue to communicate with a world where everything is being updated in a way that your old computer can no longer communicate with the world. I bought at the end of last year a 5,1, not because my 3,1 didn't work, but because the O/S is EODing the older Mac Pros, and the 5,1 seems to be configured in a way to give it at least five more years. My iMac from the early aughts will also boot and your can do things with it still. My 6116 from the early 90's boots and will operate in its antiquated way. Computers have gone to circuit boards, an advance from my old electronics, but there is nothing inherent in them that will cause them to stop working. that are over 40 years old, and they all still work. I have electronics, not tubes, but transistors, resistors, etc. This is going to date me, but the computer can basically last forever, it's the O/S that is the issue.
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