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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
My father is still sporting a late 2012 i7 model. I think I've changed the drive inside a couple of times to bigger SSDs down the line and added 16gb of ram. 

Stuff you can't do anymore, you gotta buy all soldered stuff unfortunately. Those M chips seems good tho.

Now of course windows 10 is on the thing, given Apple ditched support with their newer OSx.

I've already built an intel 10400 ITX rig that soon will substitute that little one, it has some woes, mainly the fan speed won't change anymore when the CPU goes hotter, but at the same time it's slow in general, even for windows/office tasks.
gpt
&gt;Now of course windows 10 is on the thing, given Apple ditched support with their newer OSx.

You can also install opencore or patchers to get newer OS Versions on the thing.

Catalina patcher will allow for MacOS Catalina, opencore/patched sur for Big Sur or Monterey (altough for the old cheese grater Mac Pro i recommend big sur. The last Version supported ob the last of these, so when using an earlier Version the OS has drivers for the "case" like the Front Audio or the ide DVD drives etc).  I feel like i forgot a Version between Big sur and Monterey. Probably not important


Windows 10 is also fine of course, that's not my point. Just wanted to say you can spoof and patch old macs up for newer OS Versions.