MacBook Pro 15' (mid 2014) considered obsolete?

[edavidson67]

Hello. I read from the following website that Apple will discontinue the following products:

AirPort Express Base Station
iMac (20-inch, Mid 2007)
iMac (24-inch, Mid 2007)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.4/2.2GHz)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, 2.4GHz)
XServe (Late 2006)
XServe RAID (SFP, Late 2004)
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3G (China)
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 3GS (China)

Link is provided below:

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/05/17/apple-to-make-several-iphones-and-macs-obsolete-next-month/

Among them is the MacBook Pro 15-inch, 2.4/2.2GHz model....which I just bought April of this year . Even though this computer was made last year (I think it was a mid 2014 model), does this mean they will not support it anymore...despite I purchase AppleCare ? Sorry for the question but I'm a noobie to Apple products, and not familiar to their lifecycle. Thank you!

 

[CanadaRAM]

Your MacBook is not the model that they are moving to "obsolete": the one they are talking about in the article is the 2007 15" and 17" SantaRosa model ID MacBookPro3,1

http://www.everymac.com/systems/app...k-pro-core-2-duo-2.4-15-santa-rosa-specs.html

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html

The article is not specific, and you aren't used to Apple's convention of applying model names and then not having a clearly identifiable difference between years and versions.

 

[Brian Y]

With Apple, the first generation of a product doesn't have a year attached. The rest do. So, the models might be:

MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro (2006)
MacBook Pro (Early 2007)
MacBook Pro (Late 2008)... etc.

As a general rule of thumb Apple supports most models for 6 years (a little more in California where it's legally required).

 

[redheeler]

Among them is the MacBook Pro 15-inch, 2.4/2.2GHz model....which I just bought April of this year . Even though this computer was made last year (I think it was a mid 2014 model), does this mean they will not support it anymore...despite I purchase AppleCare ? Sorry for the question but I'm a noobie to Apple products, and not familiar to their lifecycle. Thank you!

The MacBook Pro model they're talking about came out back in 2007, not 2014, so you're fine