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macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era
- tpmoney 4mo agoFor comparison, the transition from PPC to Intel started in 2006 and the first MacOS version to require an Intel processor was just 3 years later in 2009[1]. By comparison, the M series transition started in late 2020/early 2021. That said they were still selling Intel based macs up to 2023, but if you were buying an Intel Mac Pro in 2023 you had to know you were buying dead end tech. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Intel_processors#Ongoing_support_for_PowerPC_following_transition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Intel_proces...
- Trung0246 4mo agoRIP hackintosh
- pjmlp 4mo agoIt has always been a kludge, I am happy they are finally dead. Now hackintosh users have to finally take a stance, buying into Apple with all that it entails including their beloved margins, support GNU/Linux OEMs growing their customer base, or go with 80% of desktop market into Windows.
- reddalo 4mo agoIt doesn't make any sense for a macOS user to migrate to Windows. Linux is the closest you can get and it's better than Windows anyway.
- KetoManx64 4mo agoDoes anyone still do Hackintosh considering how well Linux has been working the last couple of years?
- arkwin 4mo agoFor everyone on an Intel MacBook, myself included, running Fedora 44 with t2.linux has been a breeze. About the only things not working are slow suspend/resume and a bit of a hacky workaround to fix the touchbar on resume (if you have one). Other than that, using the t2.Linux Fedora ISO has everything working right out of the box.
- skylurk 4mo agoIf my M1 MBP dies, this is what I would replace it with. I want off the OSX ride.
- KetoManx64 4mo agoAsahi works great on M1. I haven't booted into MacOS since the day I received it and installed Asahi Arch on it.
- K7PJP 4mo agoI hope most Intel Mac users avoided macOS 26. I kept my remaining Intel Mac on macOS 15, even though it supports macOS 26. It's not as bad as those poor folks who got stuck on OS X Lion many years ago, but it just felt wrong to move to a new (and somewhat broken) OS knowing the machine would likely never get the eventual fixes.
- reddalo 4mo agoI did the same, my Intel MacBook Pro will stick to macOS 15 forever. I won't update to Tahoe which is clearly a botched beta with no further updates.