I think it's pretty wild my trashcan has had OS updates for almost 10 years. And researching these tools y'all are recommending it looks like it might actually still be possible to run Ventura on it.

This is actually probably my most favorite desktop computer I've ever owned. It's beautiful, and thanks to Intel's mediocre progress over the last decade, it's actually still pretty fast in all but the graphics department. Even still, it can play some modern games on low to medium settings just fine!

I just bought a new 14" M1 MacBook Pro because they stopped doing OS updates for my 2014 Intel MacBook Pro. Kinda sad, as the 2014 MacBook Pro is still, STILL - in 2022!, one of the best laptops I've had (including for running Windows via Bootcamp). Being it had no trade-in value, I'll keep using it as a test machine for Intel builds of my app.

But yeah, the new Apple Silicon laptops are incredible, and I'm happy with the new purchase. If I get 8 years out of this one too, I'll be more than happy. To me, that's a reasonable length of time to support OSes on old hardware.

That’s just the 2013 Mac Pro. I cited two other examples that apply to several other models and years.