Apple Unveils macOS 'Sierra' With New Continuity Features, Window Tabs, Apple Watch Login, Siri, and More

[opeter]

But MS service packs work on the oldest hardware physically possible. They phased out my brother's MacPro4,1 that's more powerful than every newer Mac that isn't a Mac Pro.

That's right.

Interesting, that they (Apple) still support some 2009 hardware at all. I thought, that they will drop anything below 2010.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Why are 2009 Macbooks supported, but only 2010 Macbook Pros?

 

[WMD]

It seems that they dropped all the hardware that is officially vintage or obsolete; except, oddly enough, the 2009 machines.

 

[grahamperrin]

… To clear up space, Sierra will be able to move old files to iCloud automatically. …

– Apple rebrands OS X as macOS, announces Sierra with Siri, plus focus on Continuity & iCloud​

… clear up to iCloud, at £6.99 per month for 1 TB.

Is 1 TB the maximum?

 

[Thunderhawks]

The memory of Steve Jobs died today. Surely the rename will be a contentious decision to some but macOS brings OS X bang up to date.

The vision of Steve Jobs RIP

One more thing......

Steve has been dead for many years now.
Time to let go!

 

[SgtPepper23]

Engadget got it:
MacBook, iMac: Late 2009 or later
MacBook Air/Pro, Mac Mini/Pro: 2010 or later
Xserve support is officially discontinued

Thanks for finding this! it was on the screen for too brief of a moment! i was afraid that my 2010 laptop would be excluded!

 

[citivolus]

Early iMac 2009 = Core 2 Duo, and Late iMac 2009 = Core 2 Duo, yet only one of the two is supported... Thanks, Apple.

My late 2009 iMac has an i-5 processor...

 

[Fuchal]

My late 2009 iMac has an i-5 processor...

Back to the hacks I guess I'm sure we'll unofficially get it running in no time.

 

[filmak]

Thanks for finding this! it was on the screen for too brief of a moment! i was afraid that my 2010 laptop would be excluded!

unfortunately, it will be next year...

 

[CmdrLaForge]

I hope Aperture still works. Overall very underwhelming. Looks like they lost it

 

[Klae17]

But you had to buy a Mac computer in the past, so ... and Apple will urge you, to buy a new computer sooner or later, because this free OS won't work on your 5 year old Mac computer.

Anyway, I call these "free" updates Apple's Service Packs ... like you know from the Microsoft side of the viewpoint.

That's money already spent. It is free to previous owners. You don't have to get it either. They could easily start charging like they did before.

 

[darcyf]

Engadget got it:
MacBook, iMac: Late 2009 or later
MacBook Air/Pro, Mac Mini/Pro: 2010 or later
Xserve support is officially discontinued

But why is a MacBook Pro cut off at 2010 when a MacBook goes back to 2009? I must be missing something.

 

[Jyby]

One more thing......

Steve has been dead for many years now.
Time to let go!

Its only been 5 years buddy. You must be one of the youngsters who don't even know WW1 tool place...

 

[TMRJIJ]

Looks like my late-2009 iMac is out of luck. In the past, have there been hacks to get around this kind of hardware check?

Yes. There are many threads that have workarounds and software for Installing new version of OS X/macOS on unsupported Macs.

I don’t know. Late 2009 MacBook is actually not technically different from the 2008 unibody MacBook. Same processor, graphics chip, RAM. I will definitely be looking into it.

Yep. My OS X Hackers team has a lot of work to do this summer as well.

 

[opeter]

That's money already spent. It is free to previous owners. You don't have to get it either. They could easily start charging like they did before.

Of course they could. It is their intellectual property and they can do, whatever they want with it. Even dump it, if they want and concentrate all their energy on iGadgets.

 

[shanson27]

Works the auto lock with iPhone ?

 

[RamGuy]

That Picture-in-Picture mode is killer! I have asked for this all my life. The only sites I can relay on is Twitch.tv that supports "pop-out" so I can try to re-scale the window and have it watchable at all times. This brings it to a whole new level, finally!

 

[justperry]

Works the auto lock with iPhone ?

Sadly...I guess not, they would have mentioned it.

 

[jonnysods]

Give us something new to run this in!

I had money and hope for new hardware today. Now I only have money...

 

[JesperA]

What did Craig say? 10.12 is in the developer channel as we speak, but current Public Beta testers will have to wait until July?

 

[delegagtor]

I remember when Apple made hardware other than watch bands. MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, iMac, Mini...remember those? Apple sure doesn't seem to.

 

[shanson27]

Sadly...I guess not, they would have mentioned it.

Thanks

 

[Glassed Silver]

They dropped quite a bit of hardware this time.

Time to pony up the dough, young man!

Glassed Silver:mac

 

[Erdbeertorte]

Same in the Release Notes:

Developer Preview System Requirements

The macOS 10.12 Developer Preview supports the following Macs:

MacBook, iMac: Late 2009 or newer
MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, Mac Pro: 2010 or newer

 

[RuffyYoshi]

I like the nifty new features, not many of them sadly, but really OSX--er--MacOS is already a system so good there's not much you can add. Though I may be wrong. Also still no password for folders to store my romantic action movies.