This opens the door to a much wider variety of manufacturers and quality levels – and Windows has to work with all of them. Lunch in this instance would be like all your friends making plans five minutes before the end of work, and no one able to agree on where to eat. By comparison, Windows is an operating system, and each machine’s hardware is different.

Lifespan Extended by Proper MaintenanceIn the end, any computer that is properly maintained can last several years. Of course, you likely can’t achieve that without various upgrades, such as changing the battery – according to Apple the maximum number of battery cycles is 1,000 – upgrading to an SSD and maxing out RAM. That doesn’t mean the MacBook becomes useless, it just cannot take advantage of the newest features in any new releases of macOS.When it comes to the MacBook Pro the consensus among industry experts is that, again, you’ll achieve a lifespan of around five years, but users suggest something much longer – upwards of a seven-year lifetime. Depending on what you define as a computer’s ‘life’, it is possible to remain productive with the latest model of the MacBook Air for around five years since roughly around that point Apple will stop supporting it with system updates. User reports talk of hinges for the screen becoming a bit loose after five years, but the performance of the machines are often still good.

Skip this step, and your precious hardware will have a limited lifetime, beginning with a degrading battery, since an ‘unhealthy’ Mac will obviously affect your battery life by increasing the number of charging cycles you go through.

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