Apple to add some 2009 & 2011 Macs to vintage and obsolete list on Dec. 31
Starting Dec. 31 of this year, several 2009 and 2011 Mac models will reportedly join Apple's list of "vintage" and "obsolete" products, making them ineligible for most or typically any official repairs.
The "obsolete" additions include 2009's Mac mini and 13-inch MacBook models, while the "vintage" items are the early 2011 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros, 9to5Mac noted. In general, both categories are cut off from first-party support, but the vintage devices have some limited options in California and Turkey.
Vintage products are identified as having been discontinued between 5 and 7 years ago, while obsolete ones have been out of manufacturing for over 7.
In mid-October Apple added a variety of products to its list, most notably 2010's iPhone 4 -- a huge hit that stayed in use for many years.
The "obsolete" additions include 2009's Mac mini and 13-inch MacBook models, while the "vintage" items are the early 2011 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros, 9to5Mac noted. In general, both categories are cut off from first-party support, but the vintage devices have some limited options in California and Turkey.
Vintage products are identified as having been discontinued between 5 and 7 years ago, while obsolete ones have been out of manufacturing for over 7.
In mid-October Apple added a variety of products to its list, most notably 2010's iPhone 4 -- a huge hit that stayed in use for many years.
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Apple should be completely embarrassed of their computer line up. Next time Tim says that the Mac is very important and that they have an amazing pipeline, he should be booeed off the stage.
They introduced new laptops.
The Mac Pro is from 2013.
Your post is 100% factual. Everything you say in this post is indisputable. Yet you got a "dislike" for it. I conclude that some people dislike facts that fail to fit with their opinions. i think that's a big part of why Kosh said that humans aren't ready for immortality and why a person paraphrasing a German physicist (never directly quote German physicists --paraphrase only) said that science progresses one funeral at a time.
They have the hardware and software completely locked down -- so when they declare something to be too old then it is, by definition, too old.
Can you spell: " 1 9 8 4 "?
What bothers me more is when macOS doesn't run on my Macs and I'm hoping Apple doesn't use the same correlation between vintage/obsolete hardware and its ability to run the current version of macOS. I have a perfectly usable early 2011 15" MBP (with replacement motherboard covered under Apple's program a couple years ago).
I went to the Apple link listed above, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624, and don't find any 2011 devices listed so the assumption is these are vintage products but not obsolete. Of course, there are Apple Service Providers who have older parts who will sell them to customers along with generic third-party parts (disk, RAM).
"Vintage products are those that have not been manufactured for more than 5 and less than 7 years ago. "
"Obsolete products are those that were discontinued more than 7 years ago."