One last look at software support as macOS 26 Tahoe winds down the Intel Mac era
Second, there is the Apple T2 to consider. Macs with a T2 treat it as a dependent co-processor, responsible for the crucial operating system functions such as activation of the Touch ID, serving as a SSD controller, coding and decoding of videos, communication with the webcam and the integrated microphone and other operations. But Apple has never opened T2 to anyone, and there is a bit of a black box for the OpenCore / Hackintosh community and people who execute operating systems based on Linux like Ubuntu or Chromeos on this equipment.
The result is that the MacBook 2018 and 2019 tunes which did not take charge of MacOS 15 SEquoia last year had never taken the support for them added to the Legacy Patcher OpenCore, because the T2 chip simply does not communicate with the OpenCore firmware started. Some Mac T2 does not have this problem. But if yours, it is unlikely that anyone can do anything, and your software assistance will end when Apple says.
Does all this mean for Apple Silicon Mac’s support?
The late model Intel MacBook Airs has resisted that other Macs in terms of update longevity.
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It will probably take at least two or three years before knowing with certainty how Apple plans to treat Mac Apple Silicon. Will the company mainly examine specifications and technical capacities, as it did from the late 90s to mid-2010? Or will Apple mainly stop taking care of the equipment according to his age, as he did for more recent Macs and more recent iPads and iPads?
The three models to be examined for this purpose are the first to move to Apple Silicon: the M1 MacBook Air, Mac Mini and MacBook Pro 13 -inch versions, all launched at the end of 2020. If these Macs are deposited, let’s say, 2027 or 2028 from the software updates that they are perfectly capable of operating.
