Kmgw9v wrote:
Mi IMAC is ten years old and has no readily apparent problems.
Those with experience, please, should I be prepared to replace it in the near future.
Thanks.
Only ten it is just a youngster, we have a 2007 24 in iMac that did have the hard drive replaced about 6 years ago. It’s job now is running 24/7 with all the music and movies on it that are then streamed to Apple TV boxes and or Bose SoundTouch speakers. While it is doing that my wife may use it to run an old legacy genealogy software or look something up on the internet if her other two Macs are busy. Built like a tank and still going strong.
Seriously, if the software level it is at runs all the applications you need or want you should be good for sometime yet. This is our experience below;
2007 iMac 24inch. Still running
2010 MacBook Pro. Still running
2011 MacBook Pro. Runs but dying had cup of coffee spilled into its keyboard
2015 iMac 27 in 2tb fusion drive had to be replaced, replaced with external 1tb ssd
2015 iMac 27 in. Still running, wife’s desktop
2017 MacBook Pro 13 in. Still perfect, wife’s laptop, personally I think it is abused but it is like new
2021 MacBook Pro 14 inch M1pro. My newest, love it, screaming fast and fantastic battery endurance
2018 Asus windows 10. Runs fine, only used for quick books, no Canadian tax version for Mac and so I just keep it separate.
2014 HP Windows desktop. Dead as a door nail
2010 HP Windows desktop fried in a lightning storm, doa
2009 Toshiba laptop, so clunky and weird keyboard, gave it away in one year and bought the first MacBook Pro in the list above.
Prior to 2007 a litany of various windows or DOS desktops from the first one I built in 1984, all long dead but we had lots of fun with them.
And just for fun, writing this post on a 2019 iPad Pro 12.9 inch