Stefan Mileschin

But in good news, it is still expensive

Quentin Carnicelli, the chief technology officer at Rogue Amoeba, a firm that produces several audio software for Apple's desktop operating system has been moaning about how Jobs' Mob's hardware refreshes are now so far behind its software it has gotten silly.

Carnicelli said that with Apple recently releasing its first developer beta of MacOS 10.14 (Mojave), his outfit had been installing it on various test machines to test apps.

"The inevitable march of technology means Mojave won't install on all of our older hardware. There's no shock there, but the situation is rather distressing when it comes to spending money to purchase new equipment", he said.

At the time of writing, with the exception of the $5,000 iMac Pro, no Macintosh has been updated at all in the past year. The iMac Pro was updated 182 days ago, iMac: 374 days ago, MacBook: 374 days ago, MacBook Air: 374 days ago, MacBook Pro: 374 days ago, Mac Pro: 436 days ago, and Mac Mini: 1337 days ago.

Carnicelli added that these counts are misleading as the updates were not real updates and the machines had not seen a true update in quite a bit longer.

"The Mac Mini hasn't seen an update of any kind in almost four years, nor, for that matter, a price drop. The once-solid Mac Pro was replaced by the dead-end cylindrical version all the way back in 2012, which was then left to stagnate. I don't even want to get started on the MacBook Pro's questionable keyboard, or the MacBook's sole port (USB-C which must also be used to provide power)", he said.

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