do you... have any plans to upgrade? A gen 2011 computer is going to get harder and harder to make work. even a used macbook from like 2019 would probably be a steal at this point, and that's 8 years further along

All the new AI toys especially seem to love beefy newish hardware and especially GPU hardware if available

makes one think that perhaps Apple isn't a good long term choice...

Apple is a fine long-term choice (speaking as a recent linux advocate actually, lol). But that computer is 12 years old

So what? This crazy thing runs fine, albeit slowly, on my 12 year old ThinkPad. It's actually digesting an image of an anteater while I write this. Because of course it plays nicely and doesn't hog the hardware.

Justine says it needs MacOS 13.6+ - does that run on that machine?

Yes, with a patch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#macOS

from https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.ht...

I thought my 2015 MBP wasn't able to upgrade. Good to know it's still supported.