With it being 2024, let's hear everyones speculations on Intel macOS support.

[mactinkerlover]

I know there are other threads about this, but with it being 2024 now, and Intel clearly getting closer to it's death on macOS, what do y'all think will happen with Intel macOS support. I've listed some possibilities I thought of in the poll. Feel free to comment if you think something else.

 

[padams35]

Voted last 2019/2020, but that is more of a worst-case.

I expect the late 2018 mini will also be supported.

Best case all Late 2018 and newer Mac’s are supported (maybe excluding the 2019 iMac and/or officially require an SSD install)

But yay, some but not all intel machines dropped from OS15, with all remaining intel then dropped from OS16.

 

[Luna Murasaki]

I think that either Sonoma will turn out to be the last version of macOS to have an Intel build (most likely), or macOS 15 will be. In the case of the latter, I don’t think macOS 15 will support fewer Intel Macs than Sonoma does. I don’t really see the justification/benefit of cutting more Macs unless you are going to make the sort of changes to the OS that wouldn’t be worth doing right before Intel support is dropped anyway. Meanwhile, it would feel really weird justifying the Intel build - which has to be an enormous amount of work - only to support it on so few Mac models. Maybe they might do something like that for PR reasons, since it would make the drop of Intel support appear more soft and less abrupt to the public, but I don’t think they’re overly concerned about that perception anyway, so that seems pretty unlikely to me.

No way macOS 16 supports Intel. It will probably still have Rosetta 2 though - they are clearly nowhere near as eager to dump that as they were with Rosetta 1.

 

[aj_niner]

2020 Intel Mac will receive final Security Update in 2028.