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Apple To Obsolete iPhone 4 and Late 2010 MacBook Air On October 31 (macrumors.com)
Apple will make all iPhone 4 models, the late 2010 13-inch MacBook Air, third-generation AirPort Extreme, and mid-2009 AirPort Time Capsule obsolete come October 31, MacRumor claims, citing a different report. From the report: Apple products on the vintage and obsolete list are no longer eligible for hardware service, beyond a few exceptions. Apple defines vintage products as those that have not been manufactured for more than five years but less than seven years ago, while obsolete products are those that were discontinued more than seven years ago. Each of the products added were released between 2009 and 2010. The report specifically pertains to Apple's vintage and obsolete products list in Japan, but the new additions will more than likely extend to the United States, Australia, Canada, and the rest of the Asia-Pacific and Europe regions.
They do this all the time, and have for years.
Jony Ive appears on screen, against a stark white background. "The design of our new MacBook Pro fuses form and function into a new degree of usability and intuitiveness. Once you pick it up and start using it, all of the cares of the world simply fade away behind the brilliant illumination of our Super Retina display. It's a design that is at once both futuristic, and timeless. But not TOOOOO timeless - our world class engineering teams will only support this miraculous marvel of engineering for the next five years, so get yours while you can."
Ditch the grand experiment of the trash can Mac and give me a new workstation-class case.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
While we're on the subject of support for aging Apple products... SMH.
How nice of you to invent unspoken positions for Trump supporters, then trash those supporters for holding those unspoken positions you invented for them - it saves them the hard work of forming their own positions and articulating them.
These invented positions, coupled with unsubstantiated allegations about Trump, definitely convince me that you're having a hard time coming up with actual facts to discredit Trump with...
Ken
Recently Slashdot ran an article about Apple hardware lagging behind the latest technologies by as much as a year or two, couple that with their decision to stop supporting hardware after seven years, and current Apple products are over-priced devices with a limited useful life, dictated by the whims of designers.
Sure, older Apple desktops and laptops are still useful after Apple drops support for the OS running on older hardware, but their usefulness diminishes without OS security patches/updates.
Ken
'96 Civics are some good cars. Someday when I have time, I'm going to get one and put those low-profile tires on it and the ground effects and lower it and fix it up like a proper tuner. Decals. Loud stereo so I can fuck with my neighbors. I'll just set it in my driveway and wash and wax it like all the time.
You are welcome on my lawn.
If the source code for the OS in old Apple hardware were made public those old machines might become a magnet for hackers. Also, how much of the current software contains much of the old code? I wonder if the latest Mac OS is 90% the stuff that's five to seven years old.
I don't know anything about your Telecaster but my guess it's not connected to the Internet since it was born in 1967, long before the Internet existed, so public information about it is not likely to result in any hacking of its usefulness.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
Worthless is in the eye of the beholder. I wouldn't go for the big spoiler, but I would very much like the loud muffler.
Nah, that's not a small penis compensator. Now THIS is a small penis compensator:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/...
You are welcome on my lawn.
My 96 Civic must be worth a fortune.
Vintage is millennial speak for 'piece of shit'.
Sold until September 2013. I guess that 3 years renders a product "obsolete" in the Apple world...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
"Loud stereo so I can fuck with my neighbors."
Keep in mind some neighbors have no compunction about acting extra-judiciously to curb your behavior. First few times you might get the cops called, after that its rocks through your windows.
Good-bye
You are arguing 'security through obscurity'. I thought we killed that line of thought years ago...
Good-bye
Not really. What I'm saying is that should Apple or other PC makers release their OS software code to the public all hell would break loose not only for the old hardware but new OS/hardware too. Of course, high end, sophisticated hackers manage to find ways to defeat the newest stuff. Just don't make it easier for them and others.
The Fender hardware could be hacked but that would occur by a repair shop and easily traced to its source.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
Enjoying your butthurt? I sure am.
Extra-judicially, maybe. Extra-judiciously? Doubtful.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
My 2007 Macbook Pro is still find hardware-wise, though I did upgrade the hard drive a few years ago for more capacity. It hasn't been able to run a supported version of OS X for a while. I've re-imaged it with Linux so I could continue to safely use it online. I was not heavily invested in Apple apps, so was not a tough call.
I can understand the business decisions at work here, and am glad to have an option other than ponying up for shiny new hardware.
I just updated my 2006 Macbook Pro C2D to KUbuntu 14.04 from SnowLeopard because Chrome/Firefox don't support it anymore..
For some reason the 64 bit version couldn't boot so had to be 32bit KUbuntu. Google Chrome doesn't come for 32bit Linux, Chromium does but couldn't load pages. Fortunately Firefox still works but I fear I won't get many more years out of it.
SO everyone is up in arms that Apple is obsoleting a 6 year old phone and computer.
Yet they don't say shit when HTC/Dell/HP/Samsung does the exact same thing every year to all the models that are 1 year old or more.
Go ahead and get a Software update from HTC for that HTC ONE 7... to the latest released android.. which is version 7.0... homm wierd not even the HtC one M8 or M9 can get 7.0 installed....
Huh....
Don't even need that. 90's civics have easy to access electrical systems. 120V at 20 amps solves the problem very cleanly and destroys the amps and radio well before the fuses blow.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Actually, it's "you're" fun at parties...
You can write drivers for windows and if you have enough money, they will include features for you.
Software is no more or less vulnerable with the source code available. Everything can be decompiled to a hex dump and then to assembly instructions. With the code available at least the interested parties have a chance to patch vulnerabilities as they are discovered, with an abandoned piece of software they are SOL. I'd take a slightly lower barrier to discovery over an inabiliy to fix any day. That said, as someone mentioned before, I suspect intellectual property is the biggest barrier to companies releasing abandoned code. These products dont get rewritten every release, they evolve, and I imagine we'd be surprised how old a lot of the code in these products is.
My 96 Civic must be worth a fortune.
Since you can name the year of make - yes, it is vintage. That's what vintage means. Look it up.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
I choose to look for the good in everyone.
Welp...
You are welcome on my lawn.
I have the white Macbook 2.1 "Late 2007 Santa Rosa" 2Gb of ram max. I installed Kubuntu to get Chrome again. I only changed the battery in 2010.
FYI, Ubuntu is very smooth and fast on my 2008 mbp, FreeBSD runs nice too but drivers less so. Just because Apple doesn't want you to use it doesn't mean it's useless, don't buy more Apple shit if they keep prematurely obsoleting things with hardware that's barely improved.
You can still use your 5 year old devices, they won't spontaneously explode.
I heard that they recently contacted Samsung in order to find a way to fix this problem.
It just needs an update (as does the whole Mac line at this point).
i.e. you need to buy a new one, rather than just doing the sensible thing like replacing the GPU with something more capable like you used to be able to do with Mac Pros. It's a real wasteful consumerist mentality of throwing away things you don't need to.
Apple make a lot of good design decisions but they make a lot of crap ones too, especially with the new Pro. The worst of which is the rotation to access back ports, which of course looks nice in their marketing but in practise is completely stupid because to rotate it you need everything you have plugged in to have enough slack on the cables to be able to haul up on to the desk and wrap around the thing as you turn it, even the power cord!
It ends up being an un-upgradeable mess of cables that the apologists praise for the things that don't matter in a workstation. Like whether it looks nice and some people get sucked into Apple's slick marketing but the results are ugly anyway. Thanks to the idiotic GPU setup you can't go cutting edge with graphics either, instead of a standard GPU you have to wait until a special custom board is made (if ever) just for the new Mac Pro.
I know the apologists are now saying "well if you really need cutting edge then just don't buy Apple" but that's not the answer, we used to be able to when they made good cutting edge products that were supported with standard components going forward.
FYI, mental health services and trans-cranial electro-shock therapy is covered under Obamacare.
Just saying.
In most cities there are laws as to the amount of noise emitted and times of day it's emitted. In the end you'll probably have to sell that tricked out Civic to pay for your legal battle that you will undoubtedly lose.
Any significant upgrade would be replacing Broadwell or Skylake w/ Kaby Lake, and upgrading the memory and SSD densities in a workstation (Or whatever the Xeon equivalents of those CPUs are). But on the CPU front, Intel has long gotten to the point of diminishing returns, so there's nothing much to gain by updating it.
This workstation is an excellent design, and reminiscent of the stuff that used to come out once upon a time from Silicon Graphics. And the OS too is just perfect - it's FreeBSD under the hood (talking userland here, not kernel), and if one needs snazzy graphics and animation, there is Quartz above the hood. Just the perfect Unixstation to address anybody's needs.
My mid-2010 15'' MBP still works as a champ (dual 512GB SSDs, 8GB RAM). It goes or I go.
How many other computer companies are currently selling new hardware that's pretty much the same as their 6 yr old consumer hardware?
Um, all of them?
I've got a 1967 Fender Telecaster. It's a beauty. Plays a treat. Fender probably don't support it any more but my local guitar tech can fix it as he's got wiring diagrams etc.
Bit of a difference there. Like dozens of orders of magnitude.
The "electronics" in a 1967 Fender Telecaster (like most "electric" guitars/basses) is laughably primitive. A couple of Potentiometers, a Capacitor, a 1/4" Jack, a pickup-switch (if needed) and one or more inductive pickups. We're done now.
Now, let's compare that with the electronics in a Macbook Air...
If the source code for the OS in old Apple hardware were made public those old machines might become a magnet for hackers. Also, how much of the current software contains much of the old code? I wonder if the latest Mac OS is 90% the stuff that's five to seven years old. I don't know anything about your Telecaster but my guess it's not connected to the Internet since it was born in 1967, long before the Internet existed, so public information about it is not likely to result in any hacking of its usefulness.
That Fender Telecaster not only doesn't run any code; but it doesn't even have one transistor, let along the millions that are in something like a MacBook Air.
Even Guitars/Basses with "Active Electronics" are not even 1/4 as sophisticated inside as a 1960 battery-operated AM transistor radio...
You are arguing 'security through obscurity'. I thought we killed that line of thought years ago...
No doubt. Since Linux has by far the smallest desktop marketshare of any OS and yet has many more times the malware than does macOS (OS X).
The general rule of thumb is, if you're not an app dev (iphone or android) then don't buy macs. Period. The same money will get you a x3 more powerful republic of gamers or a lenovo or an xps notebook.
So sez an ANONYMOUS, COWARD.