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neilm said:

DAalseth said:

Not to be, okay yes I'm being nit-picky, but the decade doesn't end until the end of 2020. Also 2010 was the last year of the previous decade.

That's a matter of debate, see this discussion: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/us/what-is-decade.html

The conclusion:
"Using a modified Julian date, the 2020s will begin on Jan. 1, 2021, Dr. Mac Low said.

But that is out of sync with common usage. According to Emily Brewster, a senior editor at Merriam-Webster, a decade in popular culture is not defined by scientific convention. Because of this, the 2020s will begin on Jan. 1, 2020, and end on Dec. 31, 2029, Ms. Brewster said.

“It is interesting that there is this arbitrariness,” she said. “It’s unconventional, like language.”

This is one of those cases where common usage and understanding effectively overrule the logical alternative.  

Even this article is conflating two different things:  the notion of a "decade" and the notion of the "2020s".  The 2020s absolutely begin in 2020, because that is our definition of numbers.  To say otherwise is merely to imply that next year should actually be called 2019 and not 2020.  The unrelated argument of when did the "decade" begin is quite different than "when do the 2020s start" - that goes back to the point that since there was no year zero, the first "decade" was only 9 years long.  Given all the time shifts the calendar has seen throughout the ages, I think we can all get over a single lost year.

I just still can't get over how much the value has improved.  I'm in reverse sticker shock!  Everything's better, yet it's $1,000 less than the prior model (at the same configurations).  Before, I was facing paying more than I'd ever spent on a MBP yet accepting a laptop configured with less than my minimum requirements, 'cause I simply couldn't afford it.  At these new lower prices, not only can I afford what I need, I'm now considering splurging on a 4TB hard drive - it's still cheaper.

You guys might want to consider a trade in:  Even though the value of your 2016-2018 Macbook Pros has fallen, the lower new prices might compensate for that.

I just wish we'd get larger high quality monitors.  We were at 32", 43" was coming online slowly, but in the past 2 years we've seen a massive slide back to 27" monitors.  Didn't monitors hit 30" back in 2010?  What's this obsession with putting all the quality in tiny monitors?  Don't get me wrong - I can use a 27" monitor fine, and larger monitors are mainly a luxury.  But still - with televisions being 65" there's no reason we can't shoot for a 49" pro-monitor.  Or at least 32".

Instead, we're getting these bizarre ribbon monitors that are 6 feet wide and 1 foot high.

Not a dumb question. The Medium post has most of them linked. Here they are:

Sierra: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202
High Sierra: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208969
Mojave: https://support.apple.com/HT210190
The rest: https://support.apple.com/downloads

Further back than that, the best way is hitting the App Store from a Yosemite Mac and checking out the Purchased tab -- assuming that's where you got the OS from.

Thanks so much for these details.  But is it likely that Apple would update any of theses?

StrangeDays said:

bobolicious said:

...and so if one wants a new retail mac that can still run a more debugged macOS and 32 bit apps is time running out...? Will the iMac be locked down and T2'ed as well ?

Dude get over it -- 64-bit is coming and they’re not going to pull a Microsoft and bend over backwards to support legacy dinosaurs.

Uhhhh.... they've been doing that since 206, with zero cost. There's no reason they can't release a software emulator to help out users who need certain older programs. Many programs are still being released today in 32-bit, for no understandable reason.