BigDann

While the USB 2 port was anemic at 480 Mb/s you forgot about the 800 Mb/s FireWire port which was more often used.

True, the Thunderbolt port was only 10 Gb/s given the generation it was way ahead of its time!

 

Let's correct a bit of the Keyboard problem. The 2016 & 2017 had the most issues. The 2018 & 2919 are better for sure! They are still failing just the same. A lot of it has to do with different keys wearing out.

Depending on what your game is you can kill the Shift key, Space or a collection of letters or numbers. As an example A, E, S & R are the ones I tend to use more. I wore out two 2016 and one 2017 at which point I gave up on the newer systems, bought a second 2015 and have not worn out keys just the keycaps!

The biggest issue is the inability to service discreet key you need to replace the full keyboard. But even that is not possible! The full uppercase needs to be swapped out. So while we have four years of free coverage what happens then? A very expensive repair! Apple and all of the others need to alter their throw-away mentality! Most laptops today have no reason not to last six to eight years.

The only drawback with the display is the brightness its hard to see outside. The iPad Pro's with 120 GHz and HDR are just perfect! I'm sure microLED's will improve the brightness, I just hope we don't loose the Hz or HDR.

One slight correction Xerox PARC group only opened the eye's of Steve on what was possible!

Xerox corporate just didn't get what it had, as its focus was on copiers and printers. Not the composition aspect and even less interest in personal computers.

While I'm sure some moneys where given for the visits and some questions afterwards Xerox did not offer that much more to Apples Lisa project which gained what was learned and was the first graphical mass market computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa

You know there is a very easy fix here!

The installer looks at its certificates and the systems date. So as long as the systems date is older than the expiring cert the installer won't be the wiser!

As an example I just installed Sierra on an old 2011 iMac. I altered the systems Date & Time setting to manual and then back dated it to Jan 2017. Restarted the system and then ran the OS installer USB thumb drive I've setup. Once done reset the Date and Time to automatic and its done!