Apple Says macOS Tahoe is Compatible With These Macs

[redheeler]

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

I agree, although to be fair, anyone who bought an Intel after the Apple Silicon announcement should've been expecting to be screwed by Apple.

edit: 2020 Air released in March, Apple Silicon announcement was in June, that's not so good...at least OCLP MacOS Tahoe installs should be possible on that machine.

 

[CosmoCopus]

This will likely be the last OS supporting Intel CPU’s

Whate a shame.

 

[BradLA]

Wow, I barely made the cut. I have the MacBook Pro (13‑inch, 2020, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports).

Skin of my teeth!

 

[AlexisV]

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).

Win 11 won't install on them officially, that's all. A quick workaround when running the installation and you're sorted.

 

[Hooper]

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

Joseph, the (Apple) Mac Studio was introduced in March 2022, thus not dropped but fully supported

macOS Tahoe is compatible with the following Mac models, according to Apple:

• MacBook Air with Apple silicon (2020 and later)
• MacBook Pro with Apple silicon (2020 and later)
• MacBook Pro (16‑inch, 2019)
• MacBook Pro (13‑inch, 2020, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports)
• iMac (2020 and later)
• Mac mini (2020 and later)
• Mac Studio (2022 and later)
• Mac Pro (2019 and later)

 

[KPOM]

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.

Particularly when Amazon frequently has the M4 for $850 with twice the RAM. But I doubt Wal-Mart sells a lot of them. I’m guessing Wal-Mart just ordered a production run shortly after Apple stopped selling them at their own stores and are selling them until they are gone.

 

[msz95]

Where is iMac Pro 🙂 ?

 

[VictoryHighway]

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.

Don’t they already do dynamic installation?

 

[Zdigital2015]

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

I spent $2969 on my 2019 Core i9/Vega48/1TB SSD model on the refurb store in 2020. I’m hoping that OCLP gets me to Tahoe, but if not I’ll survive. Sequoia will get bug and security updates for a couple more years. I might even update it to 128GB of DRAM from the 64GB it currently has and put that into a 2018 Mac mini.

Just use it and stop worrying about the OS.

 

[Le0M]

It doesn't make sense, why isn't the MacBook Air M1 2020 Retina 13-inch compatible? This is frustrating.

It doesn't make sense because it's not true.
Go and check the article again

Hopefully, Apple silicon macs will receive updates for at least another few years.

 

[JosephAW]

Don’t they already do dynamic installation?

Not sure, I know the 12+ GB installer includes both.

 

[Spacedust]

Where is iMac Pro 🙂 ?

It's gone They've killed it.

 

[dempson]

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.

Apple can't remove a lot of the Intel code as long as Rosetta 2 is present. Rosetta (1 and 2) requires all code in the process to be the same architecture, thus Intel apps require Intel (Universal Binary) libraries and frameworks.

They could remove drivers for hardware which only exists on Intel Macs, and Intel code from applications, command line utilities, and other parts of the OS which run as separate processes.

This makes me think Rosetta 2 won't last very long after the last Intel Mac is dropped - Apple would have a lot less Intel code to maintain and test. If timing is like the PowerPC transition then Rosetta 2 may only exist for one or two macOS versions after Tahoe. For comparison: Leopard (10.5) was the last version which ran on PowerPC Macs. Snow Leopard (10.6) was the last version which included Rosetta, but it was the latest version for almost two years.

 

[magbarn]

So once M1's are also dropped, will there be a OCLP option for AS? Probably not...

 

[AndreasM]

That was really close since I have an MBP 13 2020...but with 4 ports, not 2. However what's Apples policy regarding continue with security patches for older MacOs versions like Sequoia that I'm running now? Will that continue for some years or do they always just support the latest OS version also from a security perspective?

 

[Avenged110]

At this point, I consider my 2019 iMac not being supported to be the best feature of macOS 16 (bite me, rebrand).

 

[sdfox7]

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

Probably the last macOS version for x86, unless Apple would want to support the Mac Pro 2019 a bit longer, because lets face it, 6 years for such a device is just pathetic.

Then again, they're killing of a MacBook Air from 2020 too, which is also pathetic. The last 5 years have been disastrous for Apples support life cycle for Intel devices, and while it doesn't make up for that, I hope that M1 Macs will see much better support.

Yet another example that Apple caring about the environment is absolutely rubbish. They sold the 2018 Mini into 2023 and it’s allready dropped. Shame on Apple, pathetic for a company with the money and resources that Apple has.

Only Four Intel Macs left. 2019 16 MBP, 2020 13 MBP 4 port, 2020 27 iMac and 2019 Mac Pro. Next year will be Apple Silicon only.

Mourning the 2019 iMac, 2020 intel MBA, and 2018 Mac mini pretty heavily right now.

Apple could do more for "green initiatives" by just supporting machines longer. Dropping 2020 MacBooks is silly.

I have a 2019 15" MBP Vega 20 maxxed out and a 2019 16" MBP. The 2019 16" being a base model is significantly slower in every way, so I wonder what other than marketing is the reason for the cut off.

Thank goodness for Open Legacy Patcher for those who don't want to stop getting updates.

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That said, I'm gonna skip the Vista Aero Glass macOS edition anyway. I'll stick with Sequoia until I have to move forward, and maybe then it's time for linux.

The M1 Air is compatible.

The 2020 Intel model is not. My guess is Intel may be partially to blame for not supporting those low-power chips - likely why the 2 port 13” Pro also is getting cut.

It is. Only the Intel model is not compatible.

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

It doesn't make sense because it's not true.
Go and check the article again

Hopefully, Apple silicon macs will receive updates for at least another few years.

Leave it to the brilliant marketing team at Apple to muddy the waters with the 2020 MBA. One architecture supports MacOS 26 and the other one doesn’t.

They obviously should have called the M1 the “2021” model seeing as the M2 didn’t come out until 2022. That would have clearly distinguished the Intel from M1. Now every conversation that includes 2020 MBA has to indicate whether it’s Intel or AS.

 

[bsbeamer]

iMac 2019 was last Intel made without a T2 chip, which sort of looks like it will be a "requirement" for Tahoe. Very unfortunate. Will keep rolling with the 2019 MBP 16" for as long as I can and might just hold onto this 2019 iMac for another few years until software is phased out. Clearly on borrowed time from this point forward for both, however.

 

[marcel151]

Blablubb

 

[Adora]

Not sure, I know the 12+ GB installer includes both.

The full installer is 17.07 GB, about 2 GB more than the Sequoia installers.

 

[Adora]

There is no dropped Apple Silicon Mac. All AS Macs are compatible with Tahoe. Has been also said here like 5 times. Or just read correctly:

He wrote "once".

 

[frozencarbonite]

Ugh...that's cutting it a little too close to my M1 Max MacBook Pro for my comfort. 😟 But I'm nowhere near ready to upgrade.

 

[Lcohen34]

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[marcel151]

Ugh...that's cutting it a little too close to my M1 Max MacBook Pro for my comfort. 😟

That's just because Apple wants to get rid of Intel Macs. I think next year they'll drop the remaining Intel Macs (EDIT: Yes, they'll drop support for Intel next year) and after that I think we have 3 more years support for M1 (at least M1 Pro and Max). That'll be 8 years support then, typical for Apple.

 

[headsh0t95]

Anyone buying the old Mini in 2023 knew exactly want they were getting. A lot of them were also purchased to run Windows in Boot Camp - which they’ll still do.

Well, even that is not really true anymore. Bootcamp officially only supports up to Windows 10, which will be out of support this October (around the same time when Tahoe is released).
And yes, I know you can install windows 11 very easily, bypassing the checks, but that is effectively the same as installing unsupported macOS versions using OpenCore, and not something businesses who bought this pro version of the Mac mini will do.