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Does this give us any indication on when Apple will be ditching x86 support?
by opengears 1y ago
Does this give us any indication on when Apple will be ditching x86 support?
- SG- 1y agoany day now, usually after 6-7 years after hardware releases.
- icedchai 1y agoWe probably have a few more years to go then. Consider that they were still selling Mac Pro 2019 Intel systems as late as June, 2023.
- philistine 1y agoI'm not convinced this year's OS release will support Intel. When they switched to Intel, Apple was quicker to dump PowerPC than people remember.
- icedchai 1y agoI'd be surprised if they don't support it for at least one more release. With Intel, they discontinued the PowerPC systems much faster (by the end of 2006.) They were still selling Intel hardware 2 years ago, a couple years into the ARM / Apple Silicon transition.
- snovymgodym 1y agoLate 2027 or 2028 most likely. MacOS version lifespan is about 3 years give or take so we'll have a better idea once they announce whether or not MacOS 16 (Sequoia's successor) will support Intel Macs. I have a hunch we'll get one more MacOS version with Intel support since they were still making Mac Minis and Pros with Intel chips in the first half of 2023.