Is it just me or does 2017 feel like yesterday? So that means my 2019 MacBook Pro probably has about 3 more years of support. Ugh.
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macOS Ventura Drops Support for Older Macs, Works With 2017 and Later Machines
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Most likely to faster force people to start buying Apple Silicon Macs.
pretty sure the Mac Pro folks will have it running on a 4,1 at some point in the near future 
I wouldn't even count on that. They are gonna wanna obsolete Intel Macs quick.
what does the EU have to say about this? Outrageous and preposterous
Let’s complain. A lot.
I have one and that’s NOT OK. I don’t care if they want to dump Intel, I’m not rich enough to upgrade only every 5 years
More eWaste for the fires, guv'nah! The furnaces CRY OUT for eWaste!
Imagine Apple bragging about their 'environmental record'...
That is poor, those are still highly capable machines.
Wow! I understand the 2015 MBPs but even the 2016 ones?!
The 2015 MBP had 8 (count 'em) supported MacOS releases.
2013 was Monterey's oldest supported machine. 2017 for Ventura. Only one year later. Dire difference here, folks.
As brutal as the obsolesce is (they'll still run monetary security updates for a year or 2), the power pc to intel switch was faster and harder IIRC.
Yup - almost the same will happen as with the PowerPC iBooks/PowerBooks or the Core Duo (32-bit) Macbook Pros...
Wow the same Mac mini which was sold from 2014 through 2017 just got axed.
Exactly. And even more brutal was the CD -> C2D transition.
As the owner of a 2016 15” MacBook Pro and given that it is simply Skylake and not Kaby Lake, I too am a bit perplexed at this cutoff choice. The 2017 also lacks a T2 chip, still retaining the T1 and moving the GPU to the 5xx series, while everything else hardware wise remained essentially the same. I’m not going to cry about it, but it is sort of puzzling. I get the 2015 as it’s Haswell, etc, much different hardware, but I digress.
Support for Mac Studio dropped, according to Apple.
Well they don’t mention it
Well they don’t mention it
Why are most in here are acting as if they can't run Monterey anymore or won't see any security updates for Monterey post Ventura release?
Apple is not dropping support entirely for non-Ventura compatible Macs just yet. You're "just" not getting Ventura.
Stop the hyperbole.
Your Mac doesn't die because it's stuck on Big Sur.
Big Sur got a security update less than a month ago. Even Catalina got one too even though it launched back in 2019.
Quit this update mania.
*Also. This is clearly an effort to speed up the move away from Intel machines. Once the M2 machines are out, you can easily grab any of the low-end M1 machines and get vastly better performance than most Intel Macs for just a few hundred dollars and Apple will most likely offer years and years of updates for those (in an effort to incentivise all Mac users to move to Apple Silicon).
Apple is not dropping support entirely for non-Ventura compatible Macs just yet. You're "just" not getting Ventura.
Stop the hyperbole.
Your Mac doesn't die because it's stuck on Big Sur.
Big Sur got a security update less than a month ago. Even Catalina got one too even though it launched back in 2019.
Quit this update mania.
*Also. This is clearly an effort to speed up the move away from Intel machines. Once the M2 machines are out, you can easily grab any of the low-end M1 machines and get vastly better performance than most Intel Macs for just a few hundred dollars and Apple will most likely offer years and years of updates for those (in an effort to incentivise all Mac users to move to Apple Silicon).
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The thing is, people paid a lot of money for these machines. And they are completely free to feel ripped of. This will make the company look bad on customers' eyes and is not great for their claimed environment objectives. They will loose customer trust. Those who bought a 2016 MBP with Skylake only received 5 years of full updates and will only receive 7 of security updates.
Yeah, this isn’t the EU’s business, so they can shut it and go back to their little bureaucratic holes and stay there.
Ding-ding. The next few years are going to be rough for the Mac support window but, if the iPhone and iPad are any indication, it will drastically improve once the support window is all Apple Silicon.