Apple keeps a list of older hardware that the company no longer supports. That list is about to gain some company in the form of G4-powered Macs. The full list is after the jump but this could possibly explain why these G4 towers Peter spotting in Japan are so damn expensive. It’s cause they are museum pieces. Collectibles, if you will. If only I could sell my G4 Mirror Door tower for anywhere near that price.
- Xserve Raid*
- Xserve (Slot Load)*
- Xserve (Cluster Node)*
- PowerBook G4
- Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio)
- Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver)
- Macintosh Server G4 (Digital Audio)
- Macintosh Server G4 (Quicksilver)
MacMerc via arstechnica
Oh, darn…I just retired my nine-year-old PowerBook G3 “Pismo”, and picked up a near-mint PowerBook G4 aluminum (1.67GHz…the last PB before the MacBook Pros came out) for about $450. This news just breaks my heart…*not.* ;-)
It’s “obsolete” when I say it is.
- Barrett
It is interesting that they don’t show the Apple Lisa in their obsolete products list but they do have products all the way back to the Apple II listed there and have the Lisa’s successor the Mac 128k listed.