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- 2017 15" MBP, 16gig ram, 1TB SSD, OS 10.15
I still managed to find some 2009 models for the same price, 150 bucks.
That's pretty good. And for a similar price…a 2009 Mac-Mini is wayyy better than a 2005 model! How much ram does it have?
With OS 10.7.5 , so in theory I could install an higher version later. What's the newest version I would be able to install, later?
You could install 10.8 for $20 now or later. Or the latest OS El Capitan (10.11) for free now. But…would recommend having at least 4gig of ram.
And how long would I be able to 'last' and be safe enough with OS 10.7.5, if at all? a year or two?
Kind of hard to say. I haven't seen any security updates for 10.7.5 in quite a while. Snow Leopard was unofficially declared no longer supported Feb, 2014 . Thus it's been almost 2 years since then where 10.7.5 (Lion) has sort of been in a gray-area…or on the "chopping block". Hoping for another 1-2 years might be overly optimistic.
- Nick