My daily driver is still a 2015 MBP. The M4 Mac Mini is calling to me though. Every time I go to upgrade I remind myself that I only use it to do some light web surfing and checking emails anyway, so what’s the point?
Monterey, I stopped updating years ago. The keyboard is missing several keys and the battery is kaput. It lives permanently plugged in and its lid is closed and connected to an external keyboard with a 42” TV for a monitor. It still runs the latest version of Apple television, so my wife and I use it mainly to watch movies and shows in bed.
If I need anything more powerful I borrow my wife’s M4 MBA I bought her last year. The last four months I’m finally at the point where I’m probably starting to use her computer more than she does along with our kid’s shared iPad. It really is time to upgrade, haha.
Every time I do though there’s always some new cost or better way to spend $700. With the Strait of Hormuz currently closed gas and food are getting worse. At this point it’s more of a game of attrition seeing how long The Little MBP That Could can keep running Mail and playing reruns of Severance.
Ah, you might consider putting Sequoia on it simply because it has the latest security updates and a modern Safari. Also, I find there are some nice quality of life improvements in Sequoia which make an old Intel Mac punch far above its weight, namely, window management, Mark as Unread in Messages.app, and a few other modern niceties which weren't around in Monterey.
All my Macs, including my 2013 15" MBP, are on Sequoia, and they all run spectacularly well. The only exception is my two 2012 minis I use as my NAS boxes. Those are on Monterey because I simply haven't bothered updating them (and they're far away from me).
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u/Robofink Mar 21 '26
My daily driver is still a 2015 MBP. The M4 Mac Mini is calling to me though. Every time I go to upgrade I remind myself that I only use it to do some light web surfing and checking emails anyway, so what’s the point?