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Cosigned, and writing this comment on my own faithful 2010 MBP. Still works like a charm, even if some sites don't load due to legacy browsers.

Having the correct USB plug-ins for my old-but-durable wacom tablet and an internal CD drive is still critical for my usage and I can't believe some of those parts were the first to go in the madness. Currently tempted to switch to the M1, but still worried about loosing the parts mentioned.

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Seconded. But why legacy browsers? My mid-2010 MBP, still going strong, runs High Sierra, which supports all current browsers.

I have a early 2011 MBP on High Sierra.

I recently reported a bug to Mozilla that I was experiencing in Firefox. They couldn't reproduce it, but it was essentially the integrated graphics are so old in this machine that their new render engine was causing major glitching issues. The solution was to hard code the use of the previous engine for older laptops.

This, among a number of other issues made me decide to recently upgrade... but hearing about these old-but-new features makes me want to cancel my order and wait it out a bit longer.

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