Next OS Sierra will drop support for many 07-09 Macs

[abc]

We'll start testing with the developer version today, then we'll see what they've broken this time.
This new file system they are talking about sounds like a big change, but that won't be released till next year.
I expect that to break a few things so we'll have to dig into it.
http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/13/apple-file-system-apfs/

[DCurry]

Better make sure you can go backwards if you need to. I really have doubts about CS5 running on El Capitan, let alone Sierra.

I know. I have Time Machine, but I don't trust it for this endeavor so I made a separate bootable clone and tested it to make sure I can boot from it. My brother-in-law upgraded to Yosemite a while back and it completely destroyed his Time Machine backup so he lost everything. I've got 13 years of digital photos of my kids so I can't allow that to happen (I do have some offsite backups, but I will update them before proceeding - can't be too careful!)

[Farabomb]

The older hardware had a pretty good run, but it's always sad when the end of a computer's useful life is dictated by Apple rather than by the user who bought the machine.

OK it isn't the end of a computer's life dictated by Apple. No one makes you (the author) upgrade to the latest OS. I hear there are still people running Snow Leopard!

That's funny, I do remember a post about how one of your windows boxes decided to upgrade to 10 over the weekend.

And people wonder why I shut off auto update on all of my devices.

[Joe]

Thats the thing....I did not have auto update turned on (and never do) when it updated Win 7 to Win 10 overnight. And it has now happened on three different PC's at work. We have some PC's on the presses running Vista. I wish to hell they would auto update.

I've never seen a Mac auto update to the next major release. Yet anyway.

[Farabomb]

Thanks, that was the first thing I did was shut off auto update on the new Win7 box. If I walked in and it updated to 10 by itself I'd loose my shit.

[Joe]

I think the problem is that Microsoft lists the Win 10 upgrade under 'recommended updates'. When a user shuts down the computer the option to install updates and shutdown is automatically selected. Boom. Next time it is booted up it has Windows 10. I know that has happened on at least two of the PC's that got 'auto' updated.

[Farabomb]

I shut off all updates. No download in background, no nothing. I'll go around about once a month and update everything manually.

[Joe]

I shut off all updates. No download in background, no nothing. I'll go around about once a month and update everything manually.

That should work. I have ours set to download but not to update until told. Unfortunately our users do not read anything. Purely click and go. Then claim later they didn't do anything.

[Possum]

Well, if Windows recommends it, of course you go ahead.

[Farabomb]

I had a vendor in here last week installing new software. That's part of the reason I had to get a new box. As she's instructing us on the install and dialogs are coming up she says "just click ok through it all, I never read them". I told her hell no, I'm not blindly clicking. Yeah, there were at least 2 bloatware things jammed in there.

[G_Town]

The older hardware had a pretty good run, but it's always sad when the end of a computer's useful life is dictated by Apple rather than by the user who bought the machine.

OK it isn't the end of a computer's life dictated by Apple. No one makes you (the author) upgrade to the latest OS. I hear there are still people running Snow Leopard!

Two machines here running it, old apps that were never updated for the newer OS.

[Ear]

'07-'09 iMac here... today... My new 27", 5k Retina, i7, Flash drive iMac should arrive by Tuesday.   I am standing beside myself

[wonderings]

'07-'09 iMac here... today... My new 27", 5k Retina, i7, Flash drive iMac should arrive by Tuesday.  I am standing beside myself

Enjoy the new machine! The downside is you will never be able to use a lesser monitor. So sharp and clear!

[Farabomb]

Between the SSD and the 5k, you can never go back. The drive makes a world of difference.

[Ear]

I went with the smaller (512gb), Flash drive (instead of the Fusion drive), based on stuff I had read... some of it here... about the Flash drive being a lot faster, with the configuration I am getting. 

It's a October 2015 release, refurb. Has 16gb of RAM but I'll probably put at least another 16 in. I was reading that this model is capable of accepting 64gb of ram, if configured correctly.