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If today’s WWDC announcements about the new Siri and Apple Intelligence coming to macOS intrigue you, be sure to check your specs before getting too excited about the betas. macOS 27 Golden Gate, which Apple announced with a pastiche of groovy hippie vibes during today’s keynote, won’t run on any Mac still equipped with the old Intel chips that have powered the company’s machines for generations.
Apple said at its developer conference last year that macOS 26 Tahoe would be the last version to offer support for the company’s remaining models of Intel machines. Since the M1 chip was announced in 2020, Apple has kept these tricky transitional Intel machines going for a reasonable amount of time. But there’s no need to abandon your Intel machines just yet; Apple will continue to release security updates for these computers until 2028.
In case you missed any other details during the presentation, we have a summary of all the news shared during today’s WWDC 2026 keynote.
