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Grandparent comment said "You're really buying a transferable lease for 6-7 years on a device that has a hard stop to go to landfill after that time due to software obsolescence by way of unpatched vulnerabilities" and I was mostly looking at the second part of that

But for the first part, for a huge number of people all you need is a web browser and Microsoft office, which is supported on the 3 latest macOS versions, about the same window as the macOS security updates

Like I said it's not perfect but it's much better than 6 years

[highwaylights]

Even this isn’t the whole picture though as unpatched OS vulnerabilities would still leave you vulnerable as a consumer.