Planning on Obsolescence

    Earlier this week, Apple made their yearly announcements about upcoming products.  The biggest one was about their new augmented reality headset, due out next year.  Among their other announcements were the new Mac Pro, updates to the MacBook line, and tweaks to the Watch and AirPods lines.  The new updates to their operating systems were also announced.  The new version of Apple's OS will be called "Sonoma."  I feel that Apple is soon going to run out of cool-sounding Californian geographical features to name stuff out of.  Apple already ran though so many big cats with their original naming system.  Some of the new features include the following:  in-picture framing for live presentations when you want to work on something else simultaneously, a special 'game-mode' that re-directs power from background apps so that any games will work faster, and the removal for the need to say "Hey" when one wants to use the Siri app.  This last feature will be included on iPhones and iPads as well.  Unfortunately, none of those features will work on models as old as my MacBook Pro, only newer models.  That's fine, as I wouldn't normally need any of those feature anyway.  On the other hand, it also marks the end of OS updates for me, as next year's update will probably not work on my MacBook.  I'm not even sure if I'll be able to install this update when the time comes.  While the previous update worked fine, I had to make a lot of extra room just to get enough memory for the previous update.  I was fearing I had to do worse for the current one.  Sierra I believe it is called, but I rarely pay attention to such things any more.  I just allot a good hour or so one day a few months after the update drops a click.  When I finally try to install this last update, it will surely be the last one, as the specs for it suggest that the next one won't work on my soon-to-be six year old computer.  I first got my Mac five years ago due to my online grad school classes, that I still haven't completed my degree.  Maybe this fall, or not.  That was the period when the magnetic cord connectors were replaced by c-ports, but only two.  Nowhere near the amount previous models had.  No disc reader either, rendering many functions that I would have liked to add obsolete.  These features have slowly come back in more recent models.  I feel that I will have to upgrade in the next year or so, just to make sure I can keep computing.  My iCloud storage is running close to full, and I keep being notified every few days about buying more space, something I just don't think I can manage at this time.  I delete old photos every few weeks just to make do with what I have left.  I worry about every download, if it will be the one that breaks the barrier.  I'm not looking forward to going to the Apple Store in its new location, if it doesn't move again in the interim.  It was in a somewhat high-end location with plenty around to go to as well.  Its new spot is even higher-end if possible, with pretty much nothing else around that sounds intriguing to me.  I definitely can't order on online.  That is way more money than I would like to transfer electronically, but I'll just have to see.  When I first got my MacBook, I 'knew' that I would have to get another computer one day, but it just started to affect me this past year.  I've done so much on what has become my first computer that I just hate it that I'll need to replace it soon.