
Service providers cannot order parts for Obsolete products,” the company said. “Apple discontinues all hardware service for Obsolete products, with the sole exception of Mac notebooks that are eligible for an additional battery-only repair period. However, once an Apple product has not been distributed for sale for seven years, it is considered “Obsolete”.Ī product being called “Vintage” means it is about to die and ones that are “Obsolete” are pretty much dead and done with. Whether you need to edit large video files. The computing power available to a Apple MacBook user is perfectly balanced with the easy-to-navigate interface, enabling employees to conduct both routine and complex tasks in an efficient manner. Service and parts could also be available for a maximum of seven years for a device depending on their availability. Apple MacBook Pro is a perfect example of the successful culmination of these two driving principles.

For all devices currently available in the market, Apple offers both services and repair parts for a minimum of five years after a product is last distributed for sale. To understand exactly how Apple classifies its Vintage devices, it is important to understand the repairability clauses. Additionally, it gets harder and harder to find repair parts for older devices making it hard to keep them in working condition. Understandably, most devices do not age well and its components and shipsets cannot keep up with the newer software requirements. For this purpose, you need to rely on external CD/DVD drives. With your new Mac devices, you are not able to run CDs or DVDs. Later, Apple discontinued manufacturing MacBook and iMac with optical drives in 2016 and mid-2011, respectively. As Apple explains on its support page - “Products are considered vintage when Apple stopped distributing them for sale more than 5 and less than 7 years ago.” Apple has begun to stop installing CD/DVD drives since the introduction of MacBook Air in January 2008.
