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 kn

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.