There is no doubt that Apple makes the most innovative product when it comes to notebooks and they launch new Macs every 4 months that is why there is a term called early, mid & late with a prefix of the year (Late 2015 MacBook Pro) any product made by apple is considered vintage when apple stopped distributing them for sale more than 5 years and less than 7 years ago which technically mean post the warranty expire you can get the device repaired from them for 7 years from the date of launch. If you have an old macbook and if you try to enter the apple repair center in Mumbai what will happen? You can give it a try but here are the answers of many users they may diagnose it but the climate answer is motherboard is dead you can get a new Mac and get some exchanged money on this. Now, why even if the device is 4 years old the answer is they do not have stock parts for any old model, and if they accept for repair the part comes from the factory which is very time-consuming and required them to continue to follow-ups.
Software Updates:
They do release the macOS update which users can install and enjoy the new features but these updates are very heavy due to a number of additional features that put the hardware of the macbook to run on it at a max speed which results in heating, battery draining, etc the best solution to it update macOS only when you think you required that as certain apps do not work when you have old macOS but remember these updates are important as it has security updated too on it.
Exception:
Apple repair store does consider battery replacement option even when the device is 7 years old and but as there are many devices making that part available for them becomes impossible and again time-consuming in few instances we have even seen a customer has to wait for 20 days with no positive result to check if your mac you chat with the apple repair center customer care before checking in to the store.
Mac products vintage worldwide:
Mac products vintage worldwide: Here is the list of the vintage models of apple MacBook Pro along with this apple is also adding the 2012 MacBook Pro MD101 to its vintage list on 31 Jan 2022, this was the last Mac with a built-in CD/ DVD player the last sale for this model was made till the late of 2016. This macbook was easily upgradable and repairs were economical when compared with the apple macbook retina. The parts for this model are still available with a third-party macbook repair center as this is one of the most sold macbook also apple stopped giving software support with Big sur in mid-2020.
- MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2014)
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)
