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macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era
(arstechnica.com)
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I have a 2019 MacBook Pro and stopped updating it at Sonoma. The new OSes are just too much for that Intel chip anyway.
The M-series processors are amazing though, I've had such a good experience with them.
Yeah, say what you will about Apple, but they really nailed the M processors.
Right up until Apple drops support for them too
Just install Asahi or Fedora and get your speed back.
But can it finally run Minecraft better than a 10 year old cheap Intel?
EDIT: For the downvoters - my pet peeves with Apple is that they advertised M chips as universally powerful and good, a serious competitor to Intel. It's a mobile chip with instructions mostly for media encoding and decoding. It's like comparing Prius to a bulldozer. If your workstation involves watching YouTube and using final cut pro, then sure, but anything remotely more advanced mostly falls apart on it. Don't even get me started on AI and how slow the unified memory is
idk, I use a gaming PC for that stuff.
The Mac's are for work and creation.
I play Minecraft with the PrismLauncher on the M4 24GB. Shaders and DistantHorizon. 50-80fps
AI also works. Gemma 4 26B a4b MLX runs… somehow.