Apple on Monday unveiled the newest model of macOS and within the course of minimize a bunch of Intel Macs from the compatibility checklist. However when you’ve got one of many fortunate fashions that made it by way of, there’s dangerous information on the horizon—Apple has introduced that macOS 26 Tahoe would be the ultimate model that helps any Intel Macs.
Because it stands, only a handful of Intel Macs assist macOS Tahoe:
- The 16-inch MacBook Professional from 2019
- The 13-inch MacBook Professional from 2020 with 4 Thunderbolt ports
- The 27-inch iMac from 2020
- The Mac Professional from 2019
That’s considerably stunning, since macOS Sequoia retained assist for a stunning variety of Intel Macs. Tahoe drops assist for a wide range of Mac fashions, together with:
- MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2020)
- MacBook Professional (13-inch, 2018, 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports)
- MacBook Professional (15-inch, 2018)
- MacBook Professional (13-inch, 2019, 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports)
- MacBook Professional (15-inch, 2019)
- MacBook Professional (13-inch, 2019, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
- MacBook Professional (13-inch, 2020, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
- iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019)
- iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2019)
- iMac Professional (2017)
- Mac mini (2018)
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The Macs above will nonetheless get safety updates for 2 years, in order that they’re not precisely out of date, however lower than 5 years of OS updates on this case of the MacBook Air is considerably out of character for Apple. So it’s clear that Apple needs to rapidly transfer away from designing new OSes for 2 units of processors.
When explaining the transfer to the Liquid Glass interface, Apple stated that the Apple Silicon had enabled “software program supplies and experiences we as soon as might solely dream of.” And sadly, these desires don’t embrace Intel chips.