{"id":342191,"date":"2017-05-29T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T10:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/29\/apple-obsoletes-last-17-inch-macbook-pro\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T10:08:21","slug":"apples-last-17-inch-macbook-pro-set-to-become-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apples-last-17-inch-macbook-pro-set-to-become-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Last 17-inch MacBook Pro Set to Become Obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[unable to retrieve full-text content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple will soon make the Mid-2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/macbook-air\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/retina-macbook-air\/\">MacBook<\/a> Air<\/a> and Late 2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/macbook-pro\/\">MacBook Pro<\/a> obsolete, meaning the two models will no longer be accepted for official repair in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/apple-retail-stores\/\">Apple Stores<\/a> from June 30. <\/p>\n<p>The computers are about to be added to Apple&#8217;s vintage and obsolete products document, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2017\/05\/27\/apple-moving-macbook-pro-air-and-iphone-to-obsolete\/\">9to5Mac<\/a><\/em>, indicating that Apple has discontinued hardware support for both MacBooks in all regions except for California and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/05\/apple-mbp2011-17-angle_osx-lg-800x409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-567442\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAlso set to be included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201624\">obsolescence list<\/a> is the Mid-2009 17-inch MacBook Pro, which is the last 17-inch computer Apple has made. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s large form factor laptops first made an appearance in 2003 with the launch of the 17-inch G4 Powerbook, which cost &#36;3299 and featured a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 60GB hard drive. A 17-inch MacBook Pro formed part of Apple&#8217;s notebook lineup between April 2006 and June 2012. The last major update to Apple&#8217;s 17-inch Pro machine came in January 2009, when a unibody variant was unveiled. <\/p>\n<p>Apart from the computers, the iPhone 3GS and the first generation 802.11n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/airport\/\">AirPort<\/a> Express will also be added to the list, as part of Apple&#8217;s routine practice of making legacy devices obsolete. The company ended support for the polycarbonate MacBook and mid-2009 MacBook Pro models <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/01\/2010-macbook-now-obsolete\/\">earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Tag: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/vintage-and-obsolete\/\">vintage and obsolete<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/apple-obsoletes-last-17-inch-macbook-pro.2047587\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=HHLx04WGw9Y:NmHCoEsBHSI:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=HHLx04WGw9Y:NmHCoEsBHSI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/HHLx04WGw9Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-342191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}