I came from PC which in many ways is far more “future proof” — which is a bogus concept in tech like this, in my view — than Mac. Apple eventually breaks their machines. I have 2-3 Macs that are unusable because they cannot install an OS. And then everything else starts to become incapable of update. They need to be taken offline.

Windows is guilty of this, too. But it isn’t as egregious.

The more I learn about Mac the more I get its vibe. The highly spec’d machines are built for those with the money to use them. It’s not like buying a “quality good” like a Volvo 240 that will run forever. It’s like buying a private jet because you actually need it for business.

I don’t know the workarounds. We used to be able update CPU and RAM and HD, but this doesn’t seem a possibility with new manufacturing model trying to meet a specific price-point. Also, the way Macs are built now makes their performance possible but it also makes updates impossible? Everything is on the chip and the enclosure is fine tuned to the chips etc

The “future proof” is the capacity to update seamlessly. And to keep it affordable, so that you can always afford “future” products, rather than over-buying and not having the money to buy “the future” when it arrives 12-18 months later.

Mac allows for migration. I don’t know a lot about it. But let’s say a person bought a Mac with big CPU specs and RAM, and then bought a fairly big HD. I suppose they could buy a slightly larger HD next purchase and migrate the data. Old HD gets ditched. $1000 gone. Although, I think you can use an old Mac as just an HD using a TB4 cable.

Or buy an external HD rig that can be used for decades. Save your money spent on Apple HD for your new Mac in 18 months. That’s future proofing perhaps.

Data / content is just sitting there waiting to be loaded into RAM. Writing the data in audio hasn’t been an issue for years and years. These external drives are blazing fast.