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0 pointssmoldesu4y ago0 comments

I'd agree if they still had 32-bit support. Nowadays though, even most creatives are getting frustrated by the vicious upgrade cycle and outright refusal to continue support for fairly modern tooling. If by "business" you mean word processing and web browsing, then... yeah. Chromebooks are also a competitor if we're bringing the bar that low.

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nyuszika7h4y ago

Honestly, Apple (and Microsoft) should have dropped 32-bit support sooner. The only reason it's such a big issue now is because lazy developers kept building apps that are 32-bit only because "it works fine on 64-bit systems". The same thing happened with the Python 2 -> 3 transition.

selfhoster114y ago

A big reason why some people stayed on 32-bit was that 64 bit consumes more memory while providing not much useful in return when your address space doesn't exceed 4GB. In an era when you rarely had machines with this much RAM, 32 bit computing is a perfectly rational choice to maximise the amount of memory available.

smoldesuOP4y ago

That doesn't really fix the paradigm today though. A lot of people (myself included) consider 32-bit support to be essential if they want their device to run everything they want, and I don't really see that going away until there are convenient, performant ways to execute 32-bit code on modern CPUs.

Tagbert4y ago

When I installed Catalina, only 6 32-bit apps were flagged. I had already known about one of them and had moved on to a replacement app. I had forgotten about the others and this was just some junk cleanup for me.

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