Apple computers have a good reputation of lasting for many years, but like any hardware component, there comes a time when it comes to renewing or dying. In this article we are going to tell you what are the symptoms that should make you think about renewing your Mac and changing it for a new one, updating its hardware or discarding it and switching to Windows.
Despite the excessive price that brand products have, as in all electronic devices they have a certain useful life that, whether we like it or not, also depends on the use we make of the device and how we have treated it.
How to know if it’s time to renew your Mac
It is not the same to have a fixed laptop in an office than to be constantly traveling with it (since in this case it will be more prone to receiving bumps and rubs, and we will be giving more use to the battery), so let’s see which ones These are the symptoms that should make us consider renewing a Mac.
You run out of disk space / little RAM for what you need
One of the biggest disadvantages of Apple computers is that they are very limited in terms of hardware, and if you want to buy it with more RAM or more storage you have to go through the box (in the past it was not, but on current Macs you no longer have the possibility of expanding RAM or disk easily because they are soldered on board).
If in your case you bought a Mac with little disk capacity, at the rate at which the space occupied by applications and documents grows you will quickly run out of space .
The same is true with RAM. In the past, it was very common for computers to be sold with just 4 GB of RAM, an amount that today is clearly insufficient and even more so with the MacOS operating system, which “eats” RAM at almost the same rate as Google Chrome.
If your Mac is one of the old ones, you can probably give it a new life by adding more RAM memory or changing the hard drive for a SSD with more capacity, but even so, if it is too old, each update of the operating system is being optimized for the New generation hardware, and as a consequence it will continue to work slowly and poorly over time.
Bad hardware
With use things end up spoiling, and as we have mentioned before, this becomes even more evident in laptops if you have been using them to go from one place to another. The laptop may fall and become damaged, or the laptop key may be damaged. It is also quite frequent to see iMac that have been hit and whose fragile screen has broken.
Depending on the problem you are having, and more so in the case of Apple, the repair will probably cost you more than the equipment is already worth, so it is an unequivocal symptom that it is time to update your Mac.
You can no longer update the operating system
Apple is very fond of “scheduled obsolescence”. And not only because she has been accused of deliberately slowing down old computers with updates to her operating system (something that has not been proven yet), but because there comes a time when, depending on the hardware you have, she no longer allows you keep updating to new versions of operating system.
In addition, as we mentioned previously, each new version is working a little bit worse as the hardware becomes more outdated. With everything and with that, the programs are also updated and there comes a time when they tell you that they no longer work in your version of the operating system, so you will not be able to continue using them.
Renew Mac, or switch to Windows?
You may also be tired of Mac. They are very aesthetically beautiful computers that usually last a long time, but they are also extremely limited given how closed the ecosystem of Apple products is. For this reason, if your Mac has any of the symptoms described above, maybe you should also ask yourself if you want to continue with Mac or maybe the time has come to switch to Windows.
At the end of the day they are more powerful equipment, cheaper and with much greater versatility. They may not be so pretty or they may give more problems, but as always everything has its pros and cons, and if the time has come to renew your Mac, you should definitely consider the possibility that you no longer need it and that a Windows computer will of better service.