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macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

They stopped selling the last Mac Pro and mac mini 3 years ago.. So literally, their top end computer had 3 years of support of the latest OS (if you bought at the end of the cycle). And, they pulled this same BS from PPC to Intel, so, its not the first rug pull. And, its not like Windows hasn't maintained excellent backwards compatibility otherwise (they still offer windows 95 backwards compatibility in a lot of cases in the latest OS). In fact, if your computer supports it, you also got a free upgrade to Windows 11 .

In this case, the Intel Macs include a T2 chip, so, its not like there is a valid security reason to break MacOS.. They literally just blatantly screwed them (the Mac Pro was NOT a cheap computer).

Coincidenally, MacOS 27 beta breaks Linux too. https://www.phoronix.com/news/macOS-27-Beta-Breaks-Asahi .

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    I'd agree that buying an Intel Mac Pro three years ago and losing support is shitty, but on the other hand anyone buying Intel in the past six years certainly should've known their days were numbered.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Has it really only been three years? I was thinking it’s been six, but you’re right. I had to double check Wikipedia. I did read on HN that the asahi issue is a bug and not intentional.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    They started selling 7 years ago the Mac Pro.. but, only stopped selling 3 years ago apparently. Microsoft offered 10 years of support for Windows 10, and Ubuntu even offers 15 years.

    Apple generally classes their products vintage after 6-7 years..

    Normally, I'd say "fine", but, this is now the second time they've done this within 20 years (they did it with the PPC -> Intel too), and the exact same way, and not all new apps are generally backwards compatible with the old CPU architecture either. So realistically, a lot of people are forced to upgrade regardless.

    The Mac mini.. Fair enough, its cheap. But, the Mac Pro was ridiculously overpriced (even the wheels cost $700 lol). You had to even pay extra money for 3 years of HARDWARE warranty.

    The reality is, nobody knows is the Asahi breakage was intentional or not at this time. All we know is that Apple has contributed absolutely sweet F*** all to asahi Linux (despite it benefiting Apple primarily). The timing is interesting though..

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I remember the ppc to intel transition. That’s when I bought an Intel Mac running leopard, right before snow leopard came out iirc.

    I agree it’s shitty (especially since it’s only been three years).

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