Apple Says These Products Are Now Vintage

Apple contiguous updated its vintage products list to adhd the 2018 Mac mini and the iPhone 6s, devices that volition get much constricted work and repairs present that they are considered vintage.


The ‌iPhone‌ 6s initially launched successful 2015, but Apple kept it astir arsenic a low-cost instrumentality until 2018, which is wherefore it is lone present being added to the vintage list. The ‌iPhone‌ 6s had Apple's A9 chip, and it was equipped with a strengthened aluminum chassis to hole the ‌iPhone‌ 6 "bendgate" plan flaw. It was besides the archetypal ‌iPhone‌ with 3D Touch, and the past flagship ‌iPhone‌ with a headphone jack.

The 2018 ‌Mac mini‌ came retired earlier Apple transitioned to Apple silicon, and it was really the past ‌Mac mini‌ that had Intel chips inside. It was equipped with Intel's "Coffee Lake" chipset with 4-core and 6-core options, positive it had Intel UHD Graphics 630.

A instrumentality is considered "vintage" 5 years aft it was past distributed for sale. For vintage products, Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASPs) are inactive capable to connection repairs, but lone if the required parts are available.

At the 7 twelvemonth people aft a device's past day of sale, it is considered "obsolete." Apple Stores and AASPs mostly bash not repair products that are obsolete, and parts are nary longer provided by Apple.
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