Don't spend too much time on any Apple silicon hardware, you'll never go back to Intel. It's like the 2006 PowerPC to Intel changeover. The speed and lack of heat generation will spoil you immediately.
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macOS 15 Rumored to Support Same Macs as macOS Sonoma, With One Possible Exception
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If T2 starts being a requirement it will be interesting to see if it can be circumvented by patchers or if OCLP/Hackintoshes stop here.
Maybe, on the other hand my 2020 iMac. maxed out with the "better" GPU and CPU, 64GB RAM and 4TB SSD does everything <i need him to do, without hearing ist most of the time. For me it would be enough, if it would get just security updates. Even my 2014 iMac is still a computer I can work with, it is a shame, that it does not get security updates. (I tried Open Core several times, but that never worked for me).
Someday I will replace the iMac with a Mac Studio and Studio Display, but when paying so much for a computer I expect it to last a long time. Especially from a company, that always states, hoe environmental friendly they are.
That’s what they’re doing, it’s like a soft dropping of support. I suspect the hard drop is coming next year.
I have a 2019 iMac … this is just another reason I want them to get an M4 Max MacStudio out ASAP.
I bet this will be macOS Mammoth
Now, as for the compatibility, this might be the last release of macOS officially supporting Intel macs.
Now, as for the compatibility, this might be the last release of macOS officially supporting Intel macs.
Still just waiting for a year with "Only T2" support, before Intel macOS just stops shipping... I was betting on T2 only this year:
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That being said, my 2019 iMac still thinks it is overheating all the time and runs at only 800MHz, so it is a pretty sad machine.
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Attached: 1 image So only T2 Intel Macs will be supported next year? Will that be the last, or 2nd last Intel build?
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That being said, my 2019 iMac still thinks it is overheating all the time and runs at only 800MHz, so it is a pretty sad machine.
A big part of the T2 chip's security functionality was handling disk encryption. On T2 systems (and M systems beyond that) the SSD controller is baked into the T2 chip itself and the SSD chips soldered to the logic board were just raw NMVe chips. By comparison an M.2 SSD card (or SATA SDD or SATA hard disk) has the controller chip on the card/disk itself.
The 2019 iMac still used Fusion Drives as the default option. Since Fusion Drives had their own controllers built into the drive unit the T2 chip wouldn't have been able to do its thing, so it was omitted. The 2020 iMac was the first model to go 100% SSD so it got the T2 chip. The 2017 iMac Pro was always SSD-only so it got the T2 chip early.
M-series Macs have the SSD controller built into the SoC itself.
If they fix the System Prefs layout I might actually update to it.
So a Mac book pro from only 2017 is just about dead in the water,? That's just egregious. My 2013 iMac is still kicking, client work, you name it. actually wanted to buy my old workplace MacBook pro that was a 2017 model because it just ran so well and I had just started learning after effects it was perfect.
updating Mac OS used to be a big deal until stability became a real issue and Apple started slipping with stupid bugs that once fixed only months later hey it's a new OS version all over again. I can't do this year to year stuff it doesn't make sense and introduces an instability I'm not prepared to deal with.
Hell, my m1max book is still on Monterey. I don't care about apples updates to silly little stuff like notes and Safari and crap since I don't use any of their software services.
updating Mac OS used to be a big deal until stability became a real issue and Apple started slipping with stupid bugs that once fixed only months later hey it's a new OS version all over again. I can't do this year to year stuff it doesn't make sense and introduces an instability I'm not prepared to deal with.
Hell, my m1max book is still on Monterey. I don't care about apples updates to silly little stuff like notes and Safari and crap since I don't use any of their software services.
Let’s hope the finally start using some name that matches the number
15 - O. Some nice name area in California with an O?
15 - O. Some nice name area in California with an O?
I wish they would return or add the ability to have independent settings for Display Sleep and System Sleep. I like the screen turning off in 10 min of inactivity but not the system necessarily. Maybe 30 min or so. Right now it's as soon as the screen turns off in 10 min which is what I like just for the screen.
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Well, that's good, because then I can still use my 2018 work MacBook Air for at least another year!
Now you know that "future proofed" is a stupid term that has no meaning. Don't buy something based upon speculation on the future.
not necessarily
we don't know yet if it needs T2 to run or if that's just the cutoff
if it's just the cutoff then it also may depend on if it looks for the chip or just the smbios
impossible to really say until we try to boot it up
