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    The end: macOS Tahoe unveiled

    WWDC Keynote, June 9th, 2025.
    Apple unveiled macOS 26 Tahoe.
    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.
     

     
    The major novelty is Liquid Glass that replaces Aqua. And the version numbering, of course, which Apple will now unify across the board (macOS, iOS, etc.).
     

     
    As expected, this is the very last macOS version to support Intel platforms; it will therefore put the final nail in the coffin of Hackintoshing on Intel platforms; after nearly 20 years, it will have been a good run!
     
    Tahoe drops support for all systems older than 9th gen. Coffee Lake, 10th gen. Comet Lake/Ice Lake and Cascade Lake platforms, i.e. those 8th gen. Coffee Lake MacMini8,1/MacBookPro15,x/iMac19,x and Skylake iMacPro1,1 that had remained supported in Sequoia. Surprisingly, 10th gen. Ice Lake MacBookAir9,1 laptops appear dropped too but, given that 2020 ICL-based MBP16,2 remain supported, those last Intel MBA should nevertheless be able to run Tahoe too -to be confirmed-.
     
    Minimum Intel platform requirements are therefore:
    iMac20,x (10th gen. Comet Lake) MacBookPro16,1 (9th gen. Coffee Lake) MacBookPro16,2 (10th gen. Ice Lake) MacPro7,1 (Cascade Lake)

    macOS Sequoia is out

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

     

     

     
    Sequoia 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)
    iMac20,x (10th gen. Comet Lake)
    iMacPro1,1 (Skylake Xeon)
    MacBookPro15,x (8th gen. Coffee Lake)
    MacBookPro16,x (9th gen. Coffee Lake and 10th gen Ice Lake)
    MacBookAir9,1 (10th gen. Ice 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 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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