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I feel people often have pink glasses over the old period of Apple. 90s was tons of Mac product lines competing with each other. No shortage of quality problem on those hardware. A nice operating system but was falling behind in many modern OS concepts (while trying to build a new OS from scratch and failing).

I used apple all my life (including the 90s) and it was definitely not the best period of apple.

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Yeah, I burned through a few new Macs in late 90s early 2000s. They all were obsoleted pretty fast. I have an old Silver Door Mac G4 that was really just crap new out of the box.

But, the Late `09 Mac Mini I bought new has been as solid as one could ever hope for. I just ordered a refurbished late `14 Mac Mini from OWC to replace it and I expect it should last a few years too.

I mostly just write code for a web app I sell so I don't need the latest or most powerful Mac and the `14 model will run the current Mac OS and the latest versions of the software I use most, mainly BBEdit and web browsers.

I know I'd be pretty disappointed if I'd bought a Macbook M1 and that happened to me.

To be fair, every computer got obsoleted fast on those years. The Moore law was strong back then.

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