On the Intel side, it looks offhand like all T2-equipped machines made the cut. This is not surprising.
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macOS Sonoma Drops Support for These Macs
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When the Hackintosh project dies, M1 used Macs will be about $100 so you'll likely be able to afford one.
I wouldn't worry. I've got the same. It's not even 3 years old and it's the new architecture. I don't know of any technical reason Apple would drop it in the next 7 years, but I wouldn't put greed past them. I'd give them until at least 2027 before new OSes become "incompatible" - and again, I think that'd be for silly, stupid reasons, not for real technical ones.
Apple sunsetting support for some of its groundbreaking M-series Macs anytime soon is just a terrible, no-good, very bad look.
Open Core legacy patcher. I'm running Ventura on my 2015 iMac and 2016 MBP with it and they run flawlessly.
It's very clear Apple is trying to update-out Intel Macs as quickly as possible, and I understand why. As these new features and capabilities roll out year-to-year, a lot of them are only possible due to the power and efficiency of Apple Silicon. It sucks that such recently released machines are being updated-out of support so quickly, but the reality is the 2016-2020 Intel Macs do not really stand the test of time as well as their predecessors and successors do and will.
Apple Silicon Macs won't be on the chopping block for a longggg time.
Glad to know that my first 2018 base Mac mini I got last Friday (from ebay) is still supported! It runs great on Ventura 13.4 and watched the whole WWDC show on Apple website while on Mac mini. Not bad for a PC user since early 90's.
Wow, looks like one more year for my final generation Intel MBP. It'll be the first time I'll ever go from new-to-obsolete and it won't even be close. They really want people off Intel Macs.
Likewise and the old machine (top of the line at the time) still runs great.
A MacMini loaded seems the best replacement.
Once I get an M2 Pro Mac Mini, and I have Sonoma installed on that and my M1 MacBook Air, I probably won't be using OCLP or whatever to put Sonoma on my 2015 Retina 15" MacBook Pro, now that I'll have two Macs on hand that officially support it. At least they only moved the cutoff year up by one, instead of two, the way they did going from Monterey to Ventura.
More to the point it starts the countdown till the end of Intel support. The 2019 Mac Pro was the last Intel Mac being sold. There's no reason now why Sonoma couldn't be the last Intel compatible version. Some jurisdictions may require them to keep a supported OS for ~5 years after the last machine was sold but AFAIK nothing, apart from PR, obliges Apple to provide new OS features for existing kit. Assuming the Intel MP was discontinued today they could have made Sonoma Apple Silicon only.
Damn. My 2017 27" iMac still runs perfectly. I use it primarily for photography with Lightroom and Photoshop. (100K plus image catalog). It runs just fine as it is a maxed out model. Really don't want to have to replace it yet so maybe I'll hold out for a while and see what's next.
it is getting tight for the remaining Intel machines
Looks like my MacBook Air 2020 will be getting dropped in two years at this rate.
No, not that one. The other one. The one they released in the Spring with an Intel processor. Everyone remembers its more famous sibling, the one they released in the Fall with the M1.
But they made it super clear in the presentation that time is ticking for the Intel models. Every Mac they released was compared to "the fastest Intel Mac." That's about as direct as Apple gets in these carefully crafted marketing presentations.
Expect the team at OpenCore Legacy Patcher to render this list completely moot, at least for some recent, non-T1 machines. One can hope…
I still enjoy and use my 2019 MBP (same as yours) so if you go by the list next year might be the last year of OS support for these machines. I also still like how Windows support is still baked in natively so I'm definitely not upgrading for a few more years. This thing is plenty powerful for me and will continue to be so indefinitely.
That's still being sold as new. It will wind up being one of the longest supported Macs.
Of course they dropped support for the used 2017 iMac I just bought two months ago.
Same on my 2014 retina iMac. I forget it's not supposed to run it as its so damn smooth
Heck, I'm running it on the venerable, last-gen A1278, the 2012 non-Retina 13'' MacBook Pro (yep, the MacBookPro9,2, obviously the top 2.9 GHz Core i7 model), and it runs flawlessly. It's insane just how good that 11-year-old computer still manages to perform in daily usage, it beat even my OG 2009 27'' iMac's record (I sold it in 2019 – as I stupidly bought a 2017 5K iMac months before the 2019 model came out, oops – and it was still running the latest version of what was then called OS X, and all kitted out with 32 GB of RAM, a Fusion Drive – oof, we still thought those were a good idea back then – and a WiFi n+BT 4.0 LE upgrade with hacked Continuity/Handoff support).
Once newer versions of macOS cease to run at all on that thing (I'm cautiously optimistic that it might just be able to run the very last Intel-compatible one, it would be just hilarious 😂), I'll probably buy a MacBook Air and install Linux on it, or something.
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You can play the "should I wait another year" game forever. That said, at least wait until the unbiased reviews of the 15" are out.
Same as... especially as I have a very high spec (i9, 64GB, 2TB). If it stops support then I'll keep going with OCLP all the while they support intel Macs.