“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. Service and parts could also be available for a maximum of seven years for a device depending on their availability.
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. Apple MacBook Pro 13.3' Laptop - mid 2012 16gb ram i7 processor 155.00 40.50 shipping or Best Offer APPLE MACBOOK PRO 13' A12 INTEL I7 2.9GHZ 8GB RAM 750GB HDD T12-B14 198.00 Was: 220.00 17.00 shipping or Best Offer Apple A1278 MacBook Pro 13' Mid 2012 i7 8GB RAM 256GB SSD Laptop working READ 200. 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.
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Understandably, most devices do not age well and its components and shipsets cannot keep up with the newer software requirements. 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.”