[timr]

The same people who complain about hardware updates nearly always say, in the next breath, that they're using a Mac from five years ago.

I'd like to see steady updates too, but perhaps we should all admit that updates aren't as essential as they used to be.

[manicdee]

I an still using a 2010 11” MacBook Air because there is no equivalent in the modern product range. I just want something light and portable for capturing photos from my cameras, culling the obviously crap ones, and transferring the remainder to storage.

The 12” MacBook provides most of the functionality I want at three times the price. I can’t (for example) plug it in to power and storage at the same time without spending even more money on USB-C infrastructure.

[timr]

"I an still using a 2010 11” MacBook Air because there is no equivalent in the modern product range."

So basically, you're agreeing with me: you're continuing to use an old product because it still meets your needs. You'd prefer that it had better specs, but not so much that you're willing to switch to anything else.

There was a time (not so long ago) that using an 8-year-old laptop would be unthinkable. Now it's maybe kind of an annoyance. That's my point.

[manicdee]

It’s more than an annoyance: macOS barely fits onto the 11” MBA SSD. There’s no room for a camera load of raw images. All my operations now require me having external storage in addition to my camera or SD card reader.

I have resorted to carrying a wallet full of SD cards, swapping those out, then doing a bulk import when I get back to hotel/home/camp. The use case for the MBA (photo culling while having a coffee break or while travelling) is no longer possible for me.

I would love an incremental update to the MBA which just gave me more SSD, more RAM, a faster processor without tripling the price.

It is not that the old product still meets my needs, so much as there is no equivalent product in the new range.