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macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era

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For 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_proces...

For 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.

If my M1 MBP dies, this is what I would replace it with. I want off the OSX ride.

Asahi works great on M1. I haven't booted into MacOS since the day I received it and installed Asahi Arch on it.

I 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.

I 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.

RIP hackintosh

It 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.

It 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.

Does anyone still do Hackintosh considering how well Linux has been working the last couple of years?

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