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I think that's overstating what happened. What I'd look at is the first release of MacOS that didn't support the old hardware. That was Snow Leopard in 2009.

I think that's overstating what happened. What I'd look at is the first release of MacOS that didn't support the old hardware. That was Snow Leopard in 2009. At that point, PowerPC users couldn't upgrade to the newest OS. Apple released the last security update to Leopard August 13, 2009. If you had bought a Powerbook May 15, 2006, the day before they announced the MacBook, you would have gotten three years and three months out of it before you stopped getting security updates. These days people wait longer than that to replace their computers, but the computer was definitely not a brick after a year.

gilgoomesh 8y ago
And to put things in perspective... Apple announced in June 2005 that they were going to phase out PowerPC, so anyone actually buying a Powerbook in May 2006 knew that they were going to get a reduced lifetime. Wikipedia's timeline lays it all out pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processors#Timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_... There was 4 years from the official announcement to dropping support in the latest OS and 7 years between the official announcement and the last official software release.