The phrase "look obsolete" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to appear old-fashioned or out of date. Example: "The antique furniture in the room gave it a look of obsolescence, but it added to the overall charm of the space."
Gizmodo says it just made the MacBook Air and the iPad look obsolete.
For the more sophisticated cybercriminal, though, this way of doing things is beginning to look obsolete.
Ed Blind, the starter, said that the turf course at Fort Erie is the best anywhere, and that the starting gate made other gates look obsolete.
James Milner has sampled the misery since he started three of England's four matches at last year's World Cup, where Germany made Capello's squad look obsolete.
"It makes the Academy look obsolete," added Laura Poitras, a past nominee and member of the Academy whose documentary, "The Oath," was nonetheless on the snub list last year.
That's one reason that solid, disciplined, at times harsh project management is so important in successful game production: so the product doesn't look obsolete by the time it comes out.
It looked obsolete and less vibrant, like a remnant of an early episode of The Andy Griffith Show.
He was 61, and in a nice Johnson sentence "looked obsolete, washed up, a great Edwardian sea creature flapping helplessly on the shingle and spouting empty nothings from his blowhole".
Six years ago, McDonald's looked obsolete.
Capitalism looked obsolete; the idea that society by organized collective actions can better itself sounded progressive and morally right.
Meanwhile, the Impressionists were making Courbet's eclectic chiaroscuro styles — later ridiculed by the American Impressionist Childe Hassam as "molasses and bitumen" — look abruptly obsolete.
