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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.
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.
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:
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You are welcome on my lawn.
When Linux doesn't meet your use case, you can fix it or pay someone to have it fixed. When OS X or Windows have the slightest bug, tough cookies, there's precisely nothing you can do.
And for this particular article, you can use Linux on that 2010 MacBook Air just fine. Linux doesn't support hardware forever -- the kernel requires at least 486 and Debian just bumped the minimal requirements for i386 to 686, but for the latter that's still good 20 years of support.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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!
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....
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.
When Linux doesn't meet your use case, you can fix it or pay someone to have it fixed.
Yes in theory, but in practise regular users do not do either of those things. Yes it's annoying that support for older hardware is stopped but users just buy new hardware with supported software rather than switching to Linux and paying developers to fix problems for them. In fact unless you can find a cheap developer the former is probably more cost effective anyway.
FYI, mental health services and trans-cranial electro-shock therapy is covered under Obamacare.
Just saying.