MacOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, while Apple pulls Intel Mac time

Like Apple announced last yearthis year’s macOS release may support Intel Macs. The macOS 27 Golden Gate release will require a Mac with an Apple Silicon chip inside, including the original M1 installed in the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini in late 2020.

Intel Macs running macOS 26 Tahoe can wait for security and Safari patches for another two years after the release of macOS 27 Golden Gate. Macs running macOS 15 Sequoia will receive one year of updates. Apple Silicon Macs will be able to run Intel Mac software through the Rosetta 2 compatibility layer in macOS 27, but future releases will begin to limit the technology (Apple says it will be used mainly to support older games that still use Intel code).

This change has been a long time coming, and every new release of macOS has gone away a long and long list for Intel Macs in the background. But many Mac owners who bought Intel machines late in 2019 and 2020 were able to run the latest machines, as well as third-party hardware such as OpenCore Legacy Patcher helped avid Mac owners to use their long unused devices.