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Incidentally, the MBA 2012 is a great Linux machine. It was used by Linus himself for pretty long. Near flawless support, except for a somewhat unstable wireless probably due to a bad quality antenna and/or Broadcom driver.

So when software support gets phased out, you might be able to get a few extra years on Linux if you wish to do so.

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I've got a 2008 13" alu Macbook that's still going strong, dual booting Snow Leopard and Ubuntu.

Heat is an issue, but with upgraded RAM and a SSD, it's gets the job done.

Any reason you've stuck with snow leopard? I know it was pretty solid but I'm using same laptop and mavericks runs great on it with ssd and ram maxed.

IIRC I has some issues with Lion around when it came out, so just kept it at Snow Leopard. I've also been put off by the general sense that newer versions of OS X are progressively worse, but I haven't bothered to find out for myself.

Mainly, I mostly use it as an Ubuntu machine at this point.

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