The Late 2012 iMac – both 21.5-inch and 27-inch – becomes officially obsolete on January 30. As usual, the machines are instead labelled ‘vintage’ in California and Turkey, where the law requires Apple to continue to offer support …
A memo seen by us states that the machines will still be eligible for service under the Repair Vintage Apple Products Pilot program. This means that it will still be possible to have your machine repaired through an Apple Store provided that parts are still available. However, if the parts inventory is exhausted, you’ll be out of luck.
The pilot repair program was introduced in November of last year, and was initially applied to the iPhone 5 and mid-2012 MacBook Air. It was also extended to the mid-2011 iMac in the US and Turkey.
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