I know y'all can make this happen. You did it for Snow Leopard on PowerPC. 🙂
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macOS Golden Gate 27 on Unsupported Macs Discussion
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Given Tahoe still doesn’t (to my knowledge, i haven’t kept super up to date on the thread) have a patch made, I wouldn’t hold my breath for this one.
All Arm based Macs are supported in macOS 27 and all x86 based Macs are dropped so there is basically nothing to patch.
Well it may be possible to add bits and pieces of Golden Gate to Tahoe. The first beta is usually just a modified version of the last OS. So the current beta is probably very similar to the last version of Tahoe with just the Intel stuff removed.
That will be interesting to see.
Considering that Tahoe is still unsupported by opencore legacy patcher. And with 3 developers having left the team. We hopefully get OCLP 3 but macOS 27 support is well... Interesting to say the least
I think any development progress on macOS 27 should be done on an Intel Mac that officially supports Tahoe.
kharys415
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Wasn't SL on PPC only possible thanks to a half-baked PPC beta of it existing? I doubt Apple has something like that this time since they announced ending Intel support at WWDC 2025, when first Tahoe beta released.
VMukhtarov
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All system was recompiled as arm64e version, it's impossible to do. Intel is dead forever.
5T33Z0
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And who's supposed to do that?
Certainly not him:
Certainly not him:
erikkfi
macrumors 68000
It was fun but it's over for now. I'm curious if something like this could return when perfectly good 10 year old Apple Silicon Macs are being dropped from the latest macOSes of the future.
it's Not like that. Apple has stripped away any remaining intel code from the OS, But left some for rosetta to work ( a dyld cache). But Since the Kernel is Arm64 only then there is quiet frankly *no Way* Intel boots arm64 Code unless someones reprograms the entire OS to support x86_64 which simply no one will do.
There are ARM-based Windows machines so not all non-Apple machines are only Intel based - but this (here) is not about hackintoshing.
Only question remaining is what will be Apple's future obsolescence policy on M-series Macs...
Only question remaining is what will be Apple's future obsolescence policy on M-series Macs...
Apple Silicon ARM uses custom instructions unlike the market's ARM Cpus ( like snapdragon) so making a boot loader that supports them is not easy/nor possible
Larsvonhier
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In addition: My M1 asked me to re-install Rosetta II for Intel App support. Cryptex-boot support has been added from this source previously in patch development (if I recall correctly in Ventura), so this might pose an "entry vector" for patches in Intel machines, even if this would be quite the reverse approach. Let´s see, "magic" not ruled out ;-)
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BGS
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It’s likely that macOS 28 will drop M1 Macs because past 7 years they will be obsolete for support.
Doubtful. iPhone 11 gets 8 years of iOS support. If anything, Apple may limit a few features from M1 Macs, like they’re already starting to do with Apple Intelligence. But main macOS support could see 9-10 years.
Yes, during the snow leopard development process, Apple went back-and-forth on if it would be Intel only or not for many months.
Even after it was announced at WWDC 2008, it wasn’t made clear that it was Intel only until early 2009.
Apple’s software development is quite a bit different now, and they have things quite a bit more planned than they used to back then. Apple has likely had the Intel computers being dropped in 2026 roadmap set since they announced the transition all the way back in 2020.
It also fits absolutely perfectly with apple’s regular hardware support classifications, vintage after five years (last OS) and obsolete after seven years (no more Rosetta and Intel apps).
Hopefully.
Apple’s Intel support was always very shaky, on one hand you had machines that were just supported forever like the 2007 iMac and MacBook pros, which launched with Tiger and received updates all the way through leopard, snow leopard, lion, mountain lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, and El Capitan, and received security updates until 2018, 11 years after launch.
Or the 2012 MacBook line, which launched with lion and received updates all the way to Big Sur and security updates all the way until 2023.
On the other hand… There is the 2008 MacBook Air, which received leopard, snow leopard, and lion. Nothing more. Launched in 2008, no updates by 2012.
Or the 2016 MacBook Pros, which lost support at Ventura in 2022, but that’s more Intel’s fault.
Personally, I don’t think the first round of M1s should be dropped any earlier than macOS 30, but I would not be surprised if they are.
I’d be shocked if M1 gets macOS 30. I think it gets one more update then it’s dropped.
The history is in plain sight to foresee the future. Apple will just leave out a few sets of features for the M1/M2, but keep the main OS updated. We see this today with iPads, Macs, and iPhones. iPhone 11 literally still going strong! And no one using a M1 today is really feeling any slowness (assuming they're not comparing to a M4/M5).
PotentPeas
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Never you mind other blocking issues, like figuring out GPU drivers for non-Apple systems…
not to mention that all system apps will be Arm only that includes Finder so yeah.