I’m writing this on my main computer, a 2011 Mac mini (running OS X Yosemite) with:

• 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core I5
• 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory
• AMD Radeon graphics with 256MB
• 500GB 5400-rpm hard drive
• 802.11n Wi-Fi (more than fast enough for 35+ Mbps d/l broadband speed)
• USB 2.0

After 5 years, it’s still going strong and I feel no need to upgrade. My Mac mini is fast enough (and capacious enough) for general use:

• email and web surfing
• word processing, blogging
• image and video editing
• running VirtualBox VMs (Windows 7 and Linux)
• dual boot with Windows 7 Boot Camp
• software development in Python, Go and Smalltalk, as well as Java for Android and Objective-C for iOS
• FTP and remote sessions

So I wonder…what the hell are people doing with their Macs that require them to upgrade so often???

(I don’t play video games on my computer.)