When Apple abandons a Mac depends on where you live.

[Lionel Mandrake]

In another thread, I was asking advice about replacing an old Mac Pro desktop. How old is old? I had a clue about Apple's policy, but I didn't know the details. Now I have found a web page where Apple lays it out (see below).

I was surprised to learn that things are different in the State of California than elsewhere. Here Apple is re required by state law to support a "vintage" Mac (i.e., a model they stopped selling 5-7 years ago). My machine is in this category, which is why an Apple rep told me to take it to an Apple service provider. In any other state, I would have been told that my machine can't be fixed.

For some of you who live in redder states, it might be worth a trip to California in order to get your vintage Macs fixed.

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

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Interesting, thanks ! nt

[Lionel Mandrake]

3. You're quite welcome.

Did Galileo really say that?

[eppur_se_muova]

5. It's apocryphal -- meaning no one really knows.

Quite likely it was attributed to him by an admiring biographer because it sounded like something he should have said.

Oh, and he probably got the spelling right.

[Lionel Mandrake]

6. It's something Galileo might have said when it was safe to do so.

If he had said it at the trial, he might have been tortured -- or even burnt at the stake, like Giordano Bruno.

[pansypoo53219]

2. i have had only 3 i-macs since 2000.i do not upgrade. i upupupgrade.

[Lionel Mandrake]

4. You have been lucky.