The White MacBook Is Dead [VIDEO]

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If you own a white MacBook, it's now vintage. Apple officially ended its waning existence, pronouncing the product as "End of Life."

For consumers, this is kind of déjà vu. Apple actually discontinued the white MacBook from its lineup last summer, when the MacBook Air line was refreshed and took over the honors as Apple's entry-level notebook. However, the company kept the white MacBook around in its education channel, offering it to students and schools.

All of that is over now. We haven't heard back from Apple as to why the white MacBook is no longer available, but MacRumors, which originally reported the missing Mac, speculates that production of the white model probably ceased some time ago, and Apple chose to slowly sell off the remaining inventory in its education channel.

Now if you want an Apple laptop, it's all aluminum, all the time. The move to a purely Air and Pro product line hasn't hurt Apple's bottom line, with the company posting big gains in laptop sales since the new Airs were launched in July 2011.

The white MacBook was the first model in the MacBook consumer line, introduced in July 2006. Although it was preceded by the MacBook Pro a few months earlier, the white MacBook design was notable for making widescreen displays and "chiclet" style keys the norm for Apple's consumer laptops, features absent on it predecessor, the iBook. It was also the first consumer Apple notebook to use Intel processors.