{"id":1032801,"date":"2026-09-02T11:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032801"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:47:04","slug":"apple-added-these-macbooks-to-its-obsolete-list-what-it-means-for-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/apple-added-these-macbooks-to-its-obsolete-list-what-it-means-for-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple added these MacBooks to its \u2018obsolete list\u2019: What it means for users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has officially added the 2018 Retina MacBook Air, the 13\u2011inch 2018 MacBook Pro (four Thunderbolt 3 ports), and the 13\u2011inch 2017 MacBook Pro (two Thunderbolt 3 ports) to its obsolete products list. This means that the users of the above mentioned MacBook will not be able to receive hardware repairs. All three had previously been sitting on Apple&#8217;s separate &#8220;vintage&#8221; list before being moved into the more restrictive obsolete category.<\/p>\n<p>How Apple&#8217;s vintage and obsolete system works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has officially added the 2018 Retina MacBook Air, the 13\u2011inch 2018 MacBook Pro (four Thunderbolt 3 ports), and the 13\u2011inch 2017 MacBook Pro (two Thunderbolt 3 ports) to its obsolete products list. This means that the users of the above mentioned MacBook will not be able to receive hardware repairs. All three had previously been sitting on Apple&#8217;s separate &#8220;vintage&#8221; list before being moved into the more restrictive obsolete category. How Apple&#8217;s vintage and obsolete system works<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032802,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032801\/revisions\/1032802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}