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Apple Drops 5-Year-Old Macs and It's Fine, Microsoft Supports 15-Year PCs and Gets Reported to HR
Microsoft Post #7404, on Nov 12, 2025 in TG

Apple Drops 5-Year-Old Macs and It's Fine, Microsoft Supports 15-Year PCs and Gets Reported to HR

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A four-panel comic meme using the 'Know the Work Rules' template (originally about workplace harassment) to contrast public perception of Apple vs Microsoft hardware support policies. Top panels (labeled 'APPROPRIATE'): A man wearing an Apple logo shirt tells a woman 'WE STOP SUPPORTING 5 YEARS OLD MAC AND THERES NO WORKAROUND ABOUT THIS' -- she responds adoringly 'AWWW, YOU'RE SWEET' with a heart. Bottom panels (labeled 'INAPPROPRIATE'): A man wearing a Microsoft/Windows logo shirt tells the same woman 'WE STOP SUPPORTING 7-15 YEARS OLD WINDOWS PC BUT IF YOU INSIST THERES LTSC VERSION' -- she panics and calls 'HELLO, HUMAN RESOURCES?!' The meme highlights the double standard: Apple gets praised for planned obsolescence while Microsoft gets vilified despite offering longer support windows and LTSC workarounds

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Microsoft Apple Hardware

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Microsoft Apple TechIndustryHumor Windows Macos CorporateIrony OperatingSystems LegacySupport TechSatire DeveloperHumor

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Apple: 'Your 5-year-old MacBook is vintage now. Buy a new one.' Microsoft: 'Your 15-year-old PC can run Windows 10 LTSC until 2032.' The internet: 'Why is Microsoft so greedy?'
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Apple: 'Your 5-year-old MacBook is vintage now. Buy a new one.' Microsoft: 'Your 15-year-old PC can run Windows 10 LTSC until 2032.' The internet: 'Why is Microsoft so greedy?'

  2. Anonymous

    Apple's EOL policy is a clean API break; it hurts, but it's decisive. Microsoft's is promising backward compatibility for a decade, which is how you end up with three different incompatible versions of COM in the same OS

  3. @TheFloofyFloof 8mo

    Technically there was a workaround. OpenCore legacy patcher

  4. @sysoevyarik 8mo

    Mac was designed by apple itself and wasn't supposed to survive for that long, so nobody cares. On the other hand, Microsoft isn't responsible for all PC with windows, so they theoretically could live for 10+ years

    1. @mrYakov 8mo

      theoretically, it can run 100+ years with a little downwolt and proper cooling.

      1. @sysoevyarik 8mo

        theoretically

      2. @SamsonovAnton 8mo

        Until 2038.

      3. @Agent1378 8mo

        Tausendjähriges Windows

        1. @DerKnerd 8mo

          #found-the-german

          1. @Agent1378 8mo

            Except I'm not

            1. @DerKnerd 8mo

              austrian?

              1. @Agent1378 8mo

                Painter?

                1. @DerKnerd 8mo

                  oh boy, you guys managed to convince the world hitler was german and mozart was austrian :D

                  1. @Agent1378 8mo

                    You dont seem to get the meme "Barak- Obama", but its ok . And no I'm not Austrian either, I just used google translate to joke about 1000 year windows in the manner of 1000 year Reich. I'm actually from a Baltic state.

                    1. @DerKnerd 8mo

                      Oh cool :D

  5. @SomeWhereIBelong 8mo

    Apple buyers are people with too much money and too little brain anyway so they dont care

  6. @DavidGarciaCat 8mo

    Actually, each new version of MacOS maintains the same base operating system, so it does not cause friction to the user (because everything is transitional over time), but Microsoft and Windows enforce changes and features for no reason, which makes people reluctant

  7. dev_meme 8mo

    I don't understand, did I miss something? MacOS Tahoe supports 2019 intel macbooks, that's 6 years already, was there any news?

  8. @nwordtech 8mo

    Who the fuck thinks that apple cucking your perfectly fine 5 y.o laptop is ok? I wanna look them in the eyes

  9. bur del lago 8mo

    my 2011 macbook pro can run the latest version of macos, not sure what this post is about 👀

    1. @DerKnerd 8mo

      Officially or unofficially?

      1. @chupasaurus 8mo

        There is no binding to exact hardware in macOS license.

        1. @DerKnerd 8mo

          But there are officially supported macs with macOS version

          1. @chupasaurus 8mo

            Possibility isn't equal to official support, mind you it was "my 2011 mac CAN run"

            1. @DerKnerd 8mo

              But so can officially unsupported devices run windows 11

              1. @chupasaurus 8mo

                Exactly same train of thought. Now try to patch CPU to support POPCNT

            2. Егор 8mo

              2019 macs are still officially supported. 2017 macs were supported in 2024. «Official support» on apple is «support will respond to your requests», that’s it. It doesn’t mean you will not be able to run it. There was a huge performance gap between 2019 and 2020 models (intel to m chips transition), that’s why Apple narrowed support terms right now. Usually it’s 7-9 years.

              1. @DerKnerd 8mo

                And you cannot upgrade with the official way right?

                1. Егор 8mo

                  Installing from disk is also an official way.

                  1. @DerKnerd 8mo

                    does that work with a version that is not supported for the device you have?

                  2. @DerKnerd 8mo

                    I just talked to a very good friend who explained the whole topic in my native language, you are right :D

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