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Here Are All the Macs Compatible With macOS Monterey
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It's pretty stupid how they arbitrarily decide what is and is not supported. The 2014 Mac Mini is supported but the MacBook Pros from 2013 and 2014 aren't even though they're on par in the case of the 13" models or vastly superior in the case of the 15" models. Apple needs to do more to live up to their environmental claims instead of just paying lip service.
This is what I expected. Haswell machines are being retired and that includes the Mid 2015 iMacs that were being made for a heartbeat....May 2015-Oct 2015. The lone exception is the 2014 Mac Mini which is a Haswell machine but was being sold well into 2018, which makes those owners still fairly new. And of course, the 2013 Mac Pro continues for another year which matches the typical 8 year lifespan for Mac Pros...and I think it will be supported for a number of more years since it was made until 2019.
OK my early 2015 MBP will get Monterey but I suppose it is the last official macOS for that machine. If Apple sticks with its three-year-support-cycle, security updates will be delivered until late 2024. Nine and a half years. That is ok I'd say.
And hey, Windows will still run afterwards
(Any macOS will also "run" after 2024 but I prefer security updates on a machine that is also used for work...)
And hey, Windows will still run afterwards
(Any macOS will also "run" after 2024 but I prefer security updates on a machine that is also used for work...)
Sounds like we'll be needing an M1 MBA to replace the 2013 MBP we use for some processes at work in the not too distant future then, depending on configurator support going forward. 8 years is a pretty good life for that machine and it'll continue to work for the most part after that no matter what
The 6,1 was released at the very end of 2013, so they mean all 6,1 machines.
Aw man! That sucks. I did not fully read the post. Just assumed the list was a list of all supported.
Time to pass the Trusty rMBP to my parents when the new ones come out
(They are still using a 2010 White MBP)
Oh, I'll still use it for the foreseeable future. It's just that I get a little twinge of discomfort whenever one of my devices stops getting the updates. I once tried to run a later operating system on an old mac mini and I bricked the thing, which was sad.
Anyway, maybe there's a new iMac pro coming in the fall. If not, I can look into whatever idiotically coloured iMac my family thinks is cool if I'm really hard done by.
Apple washing their hands of Nvidia?
My otherwise identical 2014 MBP 15” spec to the 2015 15” is dropped!?
And, you don’t offer me an M2 MBP 16” replacement?
My otherwise identical 2014 MBP 15” spec to the 2015 15” is dropped!?
And, you don’t offer me an M2 MBP 16” replacement?
I only meant by way of new features. I knew this was coming the minute Sidecar wouldn't run a couple years back. Time marches on.
At least sell it on ebay. I just bought a refurb'd one for my brother.
I agree. There's nothing other than price that keeps this thing afloat. Bloating it with new OS versions will just weigh it down to the bottom of the bay.
I see no reason why Apple would drop the support for older Macs with this OS upgrade tbh.
Same. Frankly I've been afraid to put Big Sur on my 2014 iMac 5K (i5 base model) for fear it would make it intolerably slow. I'm probably going to replace it with either the new 24" iMac or whatever bigger one they intro hopefully this year.
Because it's Apple.
Why did MacBook (Early 2009) make a cut with High Sierra and MacBook Pro (Early 2009) didn't? They had the same hardware.
Answer: Because MacBooks (Early 2009) were widely used in schools.
This is why Windows is better. Longer support.
Interesting. While new iOS and iPad OS are compatible with all the same devices as the last version (in fact even two versions behind, iOS 15 supports everything that 13 supported) for the Mac they keep cutting a couple generations even though there's not much new in macOS 12.
Has to be the rush to get rid of Intel machines, right?
Has to be the rush to get rid of Intel machines, right?
I'm happy the Late 2013 Mac Pro made the cut. It would have actually been odd if it didn't since Apple is still selling them in the refurbished store in some countries like the UK.
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That's how I felt so I can finally have a reason to upgrade mine. But if it lives on I'll just keep it.
I think the author is jumping the gun a bit unless he can quote a link from Apple. As far as I can tell the device list is taken from a footnote about about a specific feature of Monterey. There is another footnote for a different feature, should he have used that one instead. In reality, I don't think the real list is published, anyway I can't find it
This seems like a pretty minor update to Big Sur, it makes no sense (except from a planned obsolescence point of view) to drop support for the Late 2014 5K iMac. Really sucks to see Apple still doing things like this.
Are you confusing vintage with not being able to support an OS? vintage is when parts are no longer available, not being able to support an OS is when the parts don't support key features. No offense to the author, but he grabbed a list of devices that support a feature of Monterey, of which there are 2 footnotes. No where in the text or the footnote say that this is an exclusive list for Monterey support, although some features may not be supported. I hope I'm right, because I support Big Sur just fine, but I am not on the list. We'll see later today I guess