Apple Says macOS Tahoe is Compatible With These Macs

[redheeler]

I think macOS 26 should have been the perfect start point for Apple Silicon only Macs. New version numbering, radically improved design. It's the perfect line in the sand moment.

They could have given macOS 15 an extra year of support to compensate those using legacy hardware.

Shame.

MacOS Tahoe supporting Intel Macs doesn't affect you or how it runs on your Apple Silicon Mac, why do you feel the need to complain?

 

[SactoGuy18]

In short, I kind of wouldn't recommend MacOS 26 unless your machine runs the M1 or later SoC.

 

[TVreporter]

Thanks Tim, guess my 2019 iMac aill stay on Big Sur indefinitely!

 

[cnnyy20p]

MacBook Air 2020 Intel owners were scammed hard. /s Glad I sold it for M1 refresh before the price was crashing. Damn you Apple!

 

[Corefile]

I think M1 will be cut off in macOS 27 too.

 

[Spacedust]

Moby is still using a trashcan for his work, so even the real Pros doesn't need everything latest and greatest:

 

[redheeler]

In short, I kind of wouldn't recommend MacOS 26 unless your machine runs the M1 or later SoC.

The Intels being supported are late / high-end models (with the possible exception of the 13" 2020 MacBook Pro). We don't know how well it'll run yet (and betas don't count), but likely it'll be fine. Not as fast as Apple Silicon but still usable.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

I think M1 will be cut off in macOS 27 too.

I think the M1 will get a couple years past the Intel deprecation.

 

[JosephAW]

Wait, which Apple studio models did they drop? 2022 and higher?

 

[Mackan]

Exactly - They won't get you there truly because of the hardware - but create obsolescence using software...

Everyone should take a while and think about this. Apple is in control of their hardware and software, and decides exactly when they want to stop supporting the hardware. Their hardware is also often locked to boot only their OS.

If you enter the Apple world, be prepared to see your expensive machine out of date sooner than you expected. It won't last 10 years, where you add more RAM and install Linux on it. The freedom is not there.

 

[JosephAW]

Next year they should call it Lake Tahoe, dropping Intel support, just like they did with leopard, snow leopard came out and dropped power PC support and ended up being the best macOS version for many years.

 

[sdfox7]

The fact that the 2020 Intel MBA was only supported with OS upgrades for 4 years is a scam.

The fact that Walmart is still selling the 8GB M1 for $650 is a bigger scam. People buying those new today will be in for a rude awakening when the performance will be horrible and support is dropped in a few years. Since OCLP is Intel only, Silicon users have no alternative. Apple now has total control over Silicon Macs.

 

[dumastudetto]

MacOS Tahoe supporting Intel Macs doesn't affect you or how it runs on your Apple Silicon Mac, why do you feel the need to complain?

As I explained, it makes sense with these changes they are bringing in this year to drop Intel support. It's a clean break moment. I'm pretty sure Steve would have done it.

Giving Intel users an extra year of macOS 15 security updates would have been sufficient.

 

[woolypants]

My guess is that it isn't squeezing in at all though, just because it came out just after models that were discontinued, it's also way better than those. I bet it'll be supported for years to come. I've owned one since it came out, and it's still a powerhouse, almost no reason to upgrade.

I bought mine in August 2022! So it's not even three years old for me!

 

[dumastudetto]

I think M1 will be cut off in macOS 27 too.

I think they'll want one year where they drop Intel and all Apple Silicon Macs are supported. Next year will be all about the end of Intel and macOS.

 

[DakotaGuy]

2020 Macbook Air, only 5 years of support is not so good Apple.

Well technically it’ll still get a couple more years of software updates and support since Apple generally keeps the latest and two prior versions maintained, but I know what you mean.

 

[JosephAW]

It’ll be interesting to see how small the next macOS version is when they strip out all the Intel universal binary code, we should gain a sizable footprint increase for those of us with only 256 GB internals.

 

[woolypants]

Moby is still using a trashcan for his work, so even the real Pros doesn't need everything latest and greatest:

My old MacBook Pro 2015 had an optical audio out combined with the headphone socket. This was lost in the Apple Silicon models, including the M1 Max model I upgraded to.

There's nothing at all wrong with those old Intel models for audio production provided you don't mind staying with old versions of macOS. I have my old 2015 model setup as a music workstation. Aside from the fans spinning up to remind me it's an Intel chip, it's still perfect for the task. I upgraded the SSD to a 1GB model, and replaced the battery.

 

[ScooterComputer]

A lot of them were also purchased to run Windows in Boot Camp - which they’ll still do.

For another 4 months. And since Win11 won't run on them officially either, then 🚮. And the T2 chip in the 2018 mini is problematic for OCLP (but since the T2 is not in the 2019 iMacs, things are better there).

 

[Zdigital2015]

Does this mean that next year the M1 iMac will likely be outdated?

No, why do people keep perpetrating this ridiculous notion on these forums?!?!

 

[JosephAW]

It’s a shame that macOS sequoia never got out of beta, they’re still working on the bugs, is this the new norm, next year at this time will still be wanting for bug fixes with Tahoe?

 

[Aoligei]

For another 4 months. And since Win11 won't run on them officially either, then 🚮. And the T2 chip in the 2018 mini is problematic for OCLP (but since the T2 is not in the 2019 iMacs, things are better there).

No it was 2018 MacBook Air. It is remain to see if T2 enabled Mac mini, MacBook Pro will get OCLP treatment. Otherwise, for other 2 years, these machine will be obsolete in software support

 

[i.vanni]

Apple dropping my 2019 iMac 27’ it’s absolutely BS. Only 6 years support for almost 2k pc it’s not fair.

 

[SactoGuy18]

The Intels being supported are late / high-end models (with the possible exception of the 13" 2020 MacBook Pro). We don't know how well it'll run yet (and betas don't count), but likely it'll be fine. Not as fast as Apple Silicon but still usable.

While I agree, the slowness of the Intel CPU's versus Apple Silicon makes me wonder if it was worth it, though, in my opinion.

 

[Sevenfeet]

2020 Macbook Air, only 5 years of support is not so good Apple.

5-6 years for non-Pro Macs is actually typical. 7-8 for Pro machines.