Apple adds iPhone 4, 2010 13" MacBook Air to vintage and obsolete list

All iPhone 4 models, the 2010 13-inch MacBook Air, third-generation AirPort Extreme, and mid-2009 AirPort Time Capsule will be added to Apple's vintage and discontinued list, as of Oct. 31.

The report specifically addressed adding the products to the vintage/obsolete list in Japan, but will most likely extend to other regions, including the U.S. The changes were first discovered by Macotakara.

Vintage Apple products are models that have not been manufactured for more than five years but less than seven, while obsolete products were discontinued more than seven years ago. Each of the products being added to the list on October 31 were released between 2009 and 2010.

Limited support may still be available in some regions. In California, for instance, Apple is legally required to provide support for Macs, iPhones, and iPods.

CDMA models of the iPhone 4 were sent to the obsolete list last month, while the 2010 MacBook Air joins the 2010 Mac mini and mid-2010 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro to obsoleted notebooks. The current model of the MacBook Air hasn't been updated in a little over a year, but an updated version is expected as early as this month.

9 Comments

rotateleftbyte 1630 comments · 12 Years

About 8 years ago

and next week, the 2015 range in its entirety will be obsoleted as Apple cease production of Computers than can run MacOS. :'(

macxpress 5910 comments · 16 Years

rotateleftbyte said:

and next week, the 2015 range in its entirety will be obsoleted as Apple cease production of Computers than can run MacOS. :'(

Jesus Christ...give it a rest. Apple will update its god damn line up soon. Its hard to update your Mac lineup when there's nothing to update to unless you like the good ole days of Apple releasing Macs with a 100 or 200 MHz upgrade (essentially what Apple would have done) like back in the later PPC G4 days, or sometimes the previous version being faster than the new lineup.

MacPro 19838 comments · 18 Years

I like that word, Vintage. :)

Well at least amongst my collection of iPhones starting with the very first one, the 4s is still left standing. I use it as an iPod via Bluetooth in my Jeep and it works great for music and audio books through the built in audio system and Apple still update its OS albeit stuck at 9.

misa 827 comments · 13 Years

I hope Apple actually does a power upgrade, not a weak bump.

I really want to see a new Mac Pro, but honestly the "trashcan" Mac Pro was ultimately a failure as a "Pro" product, but might have been perfectly fine as a MacMini redesign.

The iMac's can't really get any more powerful or thinner. If they are made thinner, they're really just batteryless laptops.If they are made more powerful they need more surface area for heat dissipation, and should just be using MXM video cards (those are the kind high end laptops like Dell use,) that would at least get more life out of the iMac platform, and returning to user-installable RAM.

I feel that the entire "no user serviceable parts inside" thing is going to eventually come back and bite Apple.

But as for the Mac Pro and Mac Mini, The Mac Pro really needs to return to the Tower design, redesign it to fit the E5's and NVME drives, but otherwise there was nothing wrong with the original design. The Mac Mini, if they want to redesign that, should take the Mac Pro design cue but use desktop Radeon R9 series as the GPU, and use the other panel for NVME drives.