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Posted by Skywatcher
Jun 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Andy Brice wrote:
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>I understand macOS 26 is not going to support Intel chips. So you won’t
>be able to update that expensive Intel Mac you bought in 2020. It looks
>like Intel apps will continue to run under Rosetta translation, for now:
>https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-to-phase-out-rosetta-2-starting-with-macos-28-as-intel-era-ends.2458631/
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Starting macOS 28 , not OS26. So, in the year 2028. It’s written in the title of the link you posted.
Also, support for Intel is not going to be dropped entirely in os28 ( year 2028 ) , as written in the link you posted :
“ Beyond this timeframe, we will keep a subset of Rosetta functionality aimed at supporting older unmaintained gaming titles, that rely on Intel-based frameworks.“
But yes, support for Intel processors will likely to be entirely dropped in 4 or 5 years from now. For anyone old enough to remember, the same thing happened when Apple transitioned from Motorola/IBM PowerPc processors to Intel, decades ago. In a similar way Rosetta 1 provided emulation for software written for PowerPc processors, and was dropped a few years later to only support Intel processors ( it lasted less than the actual Rosetta 2 , which will be providing full Intel support for at least 6 years, then probably a much limited support for a few more years beyond that ) .
Posted by Skywatcher
Jun 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Actually , as new releases of MacOS and iOS are traditionally announced ( and beta released) at WWDC in June, but publicly released around October, that means the limited support for Intel will begin closer to the year 2029…
I think 6 years ( beginning in 2020 ) is a reasonable time frame for developpers to transition their code from Intel to the Silicon Mx processors ?
Posted by Skywatcher
Jun 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Skywatcher wrote:
Actually , as new releases of MacOS and iOS are traditionally announced
>( and beta released) at WWDC in June, but publicly released around
>October, that means the limited support for Intel will begin closer to
>the year 2029…
>
>I think 6 years ( beginning in 2020 ) is a reasonable time frame for
>developpers to transition their code from Intel to the Silicon Mx
>processors ?
EDIT : sorry, MacOS 2028 will be released in late 2027, not 2028 as I wrote. So , full support of Intel will diminish starting October of next year.
( I wish there was a way to edit our existing posts instead of having to post new ones to rectify something in it )
Posted by Andy Brice
Jun 11, 2025 at 01:20 PM
>sorry, MacOS 2028 will be released in late 2027, not 2028 as I wrote.
It is confusing, isn’t it?
But it looks like macOS 26 (released 2025!) will continue to support Intel chip:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/apple_macos_26_last_intel_support/
My mistake.
Posted by macosxguru
Jun 12, 2025 at 07:28 AM
I tried to address your questions in:
Abandoned Software and Lock-in
https://bicycleforyourmind.com/abandoned_software_and_lock_in
#macOS #software