Technology moves quick, and Apple is not one to let their customers hang on to old products for too long. There are far too many cool, shiny toys to buy, so letting you sit on old and boring, but functional, laptops would be negligent.

To that end Apple has announced that, along with a number of other products, the PowerBook G4 is obsolete.  This means that Apple will stop producing replacement parts for this machine.  

I’m sorry, sweetheart, but this means that your laptop is official old.