I use a late 2009 model iMac with 12GBs of RAM. There are always new features to improve the way things work, security updates, usually an increase in overall speed and efficiency, and new applications are written for newer technology. My browsers were all complaining because as of this year they are too old to be supported. At present there are about 40,000 emails in the database, and it was getting quite bogged down. For one thing, I knew it would probably make my mail program run faster. It’s not like I wasn’t looking forward to an upgrade, either. I mainly use the 12-year old PowerBook for writing articles and email these days in the kitchen, which is the coolest room in the apartment. But it’s really slow (photo editing is impossible on it) and it’s run out of browsers that still work on Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) except Safari, which spits out messages from practically all websites reminding me that my software is grossly out of date. But I don’t really have the excuse that I would lose all productivity - I still have my 2004 PowerBook G4 which functions just fine. I didn’t want to interrupt a big editing job, or I had to get a presentation done, or I was migrating my websites, or this or that. I kept postponing the upgrade, because it never seems to be a good time to upgrade. Then El Capitan was released in 2015, also free (thanks Apple), and I waited for the usual bugs to get reported and fixed.
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