I'll keep using my current two macs as Macs for as long as I can, but next machine I buy, I may go Windows or Linux. I went with apple in early 2009, and been very happy, but as of late, the direction they were taking with hardware (soldering RAM and/or SSDs to the mobo, using inordinate amounts of glue for batteries, etc) meant that I was seriously considering ditching them. I hope that in the next seven years, apple reconsiders, and let people boot other OSs from bare metal, bt I am not holding my breath.
Then you could keep using the machine, or hand it down to less demanding users in your circle, or donate it.īut with no bare metal booting of other OSs, it means that once the hardware stop receiving MacOS patches from apple (tipically, after seven years), you are SOL, because, even if you decided to do your activities in an emulated guest OS, the Host OS (that is to say, MacOS with no more security patches) becomes insecure by definition. In an intel mac, after that period was over, you could bootcamp into windows, or install linux, and give a new lease of life to that machine by installing an OS which would continue to get security patches. Boot Camp allows your computer to create a partition specific to the installation of the Windows so that you can have every functionality of Microsoft’s operating system available on your Mac. Apple tends to provide OS upgrades and security patches for machines for about 7 years since introduction. It’s hard not to recommend Boot Camp as your first method of Windows operating system emulation since it’s an actual Mac application.
