Re: Hard locks attract workarounds, workarounds become a honeypot for malware.
"Maybe time for an upgrade (doesn't need to be brand spanking new, just new to you!!)"
Firstly, it's Apple's choice to give it away for free, I'd happily pay to keep the 24'' iMac current because there is no like for like replacement for the 24'' 1900x1200 display.
It's Apple loss because it's perfectly possible to run Windows 10 on these iMac 24's. Takes a bit of work, but does work, and doesn't require 3rd party workarounds.
You have missed the point completely. Windows 10 uses 'soft locks' (lack of fingerprint drivers for instance, Validity FP Readers, poor Touchpad drivers - lack of two-finger scrolling) which act as inconveniences in terms of upgrades, macOS uses hard locks, to force obsolescence.
There is absolutely no need to have hard locks on Apple's macOS upgrades because as said, those workarounds that appear all over youtube+other sites acts as honeypots for malware, and Apple know this.
Some of these videos describe a process very similar to the iffy telephone support calls, in terms of downloading and installing software, all because Apple use a hard lock.
Apple shouldn't be putting their users in harm's way. Hard locks do that.
Why would anyone landfill a perfectly good iMac 24'' + separate 24'' Apple Display, when a simple Wifi card replacement would allow that machine to run macOS High Sierra, as it's then no different, in hardware terms to the late 2009 iMac 21''.
Blotto, a few of us, quite like Apple stuff, but we're not so obsessed we need the next new, shiny thing. Security updates are all I'm interested in, and in terms of El Capitan, they will finish soon enough, 2018.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
