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Comment by bxparks | Hacker News Reader

It looks like Ventura drops support for the 2nd generation (Late 2010 to 2017) MacBook Airs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air). So let's figure one more year for Big Sur, then another year for (edit) Monterey, then I guess they will need to migrate to Linux.

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Ventura even drops support for the 2016 (Touchbar) Macbook Pros which is frustrating. The machines are certainly powerful enough. But support for Intel Macs will probably be dropped sooner rather than later.

I’m specifically peeved about this. My personal 2016 mbp has nearly identical specs to my work 2017 mbp but my personal one is being left behind. Maybe there’s some minuscule hardware issue they couldn’t be bothered to work out but 5-6 years of OS updates is upsettingly short. I’d expect that for an android phone but not a high end laptop…

There does seem to be a dev working on porting over the OS if anyone has an earlier mac and really wants the new OS.

  > My personal 2016 mbp has nearly identical specs to my work 2017 mbp but my personal one is being left behind.

its crazy, my macbook (12 inch) 2017 with a dinky dual-core 1.3ghz is supported but not my quad-core 2.6ghz w/discreet gpu isnt... totally bonkers

Still on Catalina here, yikes

(Concerns about potential VirtualBox issues held me back though I suppose I can/should at least upgrade to Monterey now.)

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