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Apple to end support for Intel Macs next year: macOS 27 to require Apple Silicon

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I'm on a 2015 Macbook Pro, 15". There is no reason at all this shouldn't be my daily driver for another 5 years but for Apple's kneecapping.

Meanwhile no better computer has been produced.

Me too - late 2015 - best machine I ever had. Stashing parts from ebay to hold out and make a last stand beyond use by date.

At least the price of a used Intel Mac will plummet. They sometimes make for good Linux machines.

"That 3000 dollar tool you paid us for? It's a brick." -Tim Apple

> Of course, Intel Macs will continue to get critical security updates for some time thereafter. But users should not expect to be able to update to get new features from macOS 27 onwards

Crazy to see how fast Intel got dethroned. ARM on the server is cheaper for the same performance, and the M* is unbelievably faster at the lower energy budget of a laptop.

It’s a brick, except a brick that can do the vast majority of things a laptop can do other than update to the newest OS and install the very latest software?

My PowerMac G4 still works, and I run Tiger on that. In a similar way I plan to remain on Ventura on my main Mac. All my hardware and software applications continue to work just fine.

Apple empire is crashing down....finally!

Apple used to be against the app store business model until trey tasted it and ever since, app store business model is their main income. I mean, it was, Apple lost the lawsuit against Epic Games regarding its mandatory 30% for any sales and it must be done via Apple Store.

Apple no longer sells hardware as it used to, app store business model is their everything now. But with the lawsuit giving them the middle finger, Apple will do everything they can to lock their hardware and services even more. If you are still using Apple hardware in 2025 for whatever reason, you won't be able to use anything else.

I am pretty sure those Intel Macs are still good hardware, but due to Apple being greedy as usual, Apple is forcing people to destroy it or install Windows or Linux on it assuming that still possible.

Even if you can use Intel Macs as it is, Apple own history will make them incompatible with new software releases so sure, it works but zero support whatsoever forcing users to use third party software.

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