Until today (17 September 2018), the Macintosh Plus has continued to hold the record for the longest production life of any Mac model, with it having been on sale from 16 January 1986 until 15 October 1990, a total of 1,734 days (source: https://support.apple.com/kb/sp190).
Unless Apple surprises us all and releases the long-awaited Mac Pro 7,1 before the end of today, the Mac Pro 6,1 aka the "trashcan" will shortly enter its 1,735th day on sale (having been released on December 19 2013) and beat this record that with the speed of change in computing most would have assumed would be impossible to beat (although the 2012 MacBook Pro, the last one with an optical drive that stuck around for a good few years, was starting to come close when it was finally discontinued).
Not long to wait now until a full five years without an update - if it gets there, I wonder what Phil Schiller will say about people who use five year old computers then, should they buy a new one that is identical to their old one to avoid being "sad"?...
Unless Apple surprises us all and releases the long-awaited Mac Pro 7,1 before the end of today, the Mac Pro 6,1 aka the "trashcan" will shortly enter its 1,735th day on sale (having been released on December 19 2013) and beat this record that with the speed of change in computing most would have assumed would be impossible to beat (although the 2012 MacBook Pro, the last one with an optical drive that stuck around for a good few years, was starting to come close when it was finally discontinued).
Not long to wait now until a full five years without an update - if it gets there, I wonder what Phil Schiller will say about people who use five year old computers then, should they buy a new one that is identical to their old one to avoid being "sad"?...
