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    macOS Sequoia is out

    Released Sep. 16th, 2024.
    Version 15.0, build 24A335 (same as RC published Sep. 10th).
     

     

     

     
    Sonoma drops official support for Amber Lake MacBook Air8,1/8,2 thereby raising the minimum MacBook Air platform to final 2020 Ice Lake-based MBA9,1. The rest of the supported platforms remain identical to Sonoma. Support for Kaby Lake graphics remain provided with all KBL kexts still present so good news to all owners of Skylake laptops who will all be able to run Sequoia with full acceleration through the SKL graphics patch required since Ventura. For other iGPUs, patches are available through OCLP tool to regain graphics acceleration.
     
    Officially supported Intel platforms are now limited to :
    iMac19,x (8th gen. Coffee Lake)
    iMacPro1,1 (Skylake Xeon)
    MacBookPro15,x (8th gen. Coffee Lake)
    Macmini8,1 (8th gen Coffee Lake)
    MacPro7,1 (Cacade Lake)
     
    With Sequoia, Apple introduced artificial intelligence features that are only available to Apple Silicon models. Intel platforms are not compatible with these.
     
    NB: macOS Monterey is now officially unsupported.

    macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 update is out

    Released August 7th, 2024.
    Build 23G93.
     
    This version was quickly released after Sonoma 14.6. Bug fixes ans security update. Safe to install on our Hackintosh platforms.
     

     
    Also released on August 7th:
    macOS Ventura Security Update 13.6.9 (Build 22G830)  
    Previously released on July 29th:
    macOS Sonoma update 14.6 (Build 23G83) macOS Ventura Security Update 13.6.8 (Build 22G820) macOS Monterey Security Update 12.7.6 (Build 21H1320)

    macOS Sequoia unveiled

    WWDC Keynote, June 10th, 2024.
    Apple unveiled macOS 15 Sequoia.
    As usual, 1st beta version was immediately made available to developers and 1st public beta will be available in July with a final release in the fall.
     

     
    Very little in terms of (exciting) new features in Craig's presentation, apart from iPhone mirroring.

     

     
    Surprisingly, Sequoia only drops support for 2018/2019 8th gen. Amber Lake MacBookAir8,1/8,2 thereby raising the minimum MacBook Air platform to final 2020 Ice Lake-based MBA9,1. The rest of the supported platforms remain identical to Sonoma so we can kind of thank Apple for the reprieve. Who knows whether Apple will chop it all next year or retain only 10th gen. Comet Lake/Ice Lake models next year in Sequoia's successor?
     
    KBL graphics drivers remain provided so that'll be good news to all owners of Skylake laptops who should all be able to run Sequoia with full acceleration through the SKL graphics patch required since Ventura.
     
    Minimum platform requirements are therefore:
    iMac19,x (8th gen. Coffee Lake) iMacPro1,1 (Skylake Xeon) MacBookAir9,1 (10th gen. Ice Lake) MacBookPro15,x (8th gen. Coffee Lake) Macmini8,1 (8th gen Coffee Lake) MacPro7,1 (Cacade Lake)
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