How can an item be both vintage and obsolete?

As these fade into obscurity rites of passage denote their namesakes "Vintage & (or) Obsolete"

• Vintage and obsolete products - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624

This April (2020) a few more met this fate; they may still see some support by authorized service at

Apple. And 'independent' business could do work on old vintage, with sourced outdated new parts.

Usually for five years after Vintage status these still see some support at Apple, & authorized repair.

• These MacBooks will hit Apple's dreaded 'vintage and obsolete' list soon - cultofmac (April 2020)

https://www.cultofmac.com/698321/these-macbooks-will-hit-apples-dreaded-vintage-and-obsolete-list-soon/

(Certain models produced in 2011 are obsolete; & still are serviceable to some degree. My 2005/2006

iBook G4 and early MacBook1.1 still do fairly well. While my mid-2012 MB/Pro 13-in 2.5GHz runs well

enough with a blade SSD and more RAM; minimal hardware upgrades, with Mojave.)

• Identify your MacBook Air model - Apple Support

• Apple adds 2013 and 2014 MacBook Air, Pro models to vintage and obsolete list | appleinsider

Nothing really new in this schedule, almost routine in fact.

Good luck & happy trails!🌻🌤

2 MacBook Airs, 11-inch models, are listed as both vintage and obsolete. Is that correct?

Some MBA models are vintage while others are obsolete. To distinguish one from another please refer to Vintage and obsolete products - Apple Support.

There are a lot of 11" MBAs out there. To which specific models are you referring? Are they truly the exact same model versions? Of course, it may simply be a model that was vintage and just became obsolete. I suppose one could argue that even an obsolete model remains vintage depending on how each is defined. Is this an issue of sufficient importance to require a topic since no problem question has been stipulated?

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Mine are working fine, they perform everything i need on a daily basis. The battery lasts long enough and type words very good!

i added a 264 gb ssd to the 2010 mba last week and replacing the display on the other one that is running snow leopard.

i just wished apple had my enthusiasm on these fine laptops, and even my itouch from that era.