Most Intel MacBook Pro -Laptops can miss macOS 26 according to new rumors – will future updates only be Apple Silicon?
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- There is a new rumor about which Macs are compatible with macOS 26
- In theory, the lower models of the MacBook Pro 13-inch are excluded from 2020
- Logically, this also means that MacBook Pro models from 2019 are also not compatible – although there can be an exception in that respect
The newest of the rumor mill about compatibility with the next version of macOS is currently excluding a surprisingly new Mac with a Intel Chip, a MacBook Pro from 2020 to be precise.
A new list of compatible Macs for what Presumably macOS Tahoe (or macOS 26) comes from a private source on X that 9to5mac marked. The technical site notes that it keeps the account anonymous, which is fair enough, but that it is a reliable source that “regularly shares accurate information” Apple‘s software plans.
The list of Macs that ‘good to come along’ MacOS Tahoe reflects the previously leakedBorrow more weight, but it adds another laptop: Apple’s MacBook Pro 13-inch from 2020The entry-level model with only two Thunderbolt ports instead of four. (And there are potentially more MacBook Pro models omitted in the cold here, through logical extension, and I will soon return to that point).
However, the source does not sound completely convinced about what they have heard, and added that they “don’t believe it completely” as 9 to 5 mac notes.
So, assuming this is true, we have a somewhat revised list of Macs that will be compatible with macOS 26 (now apply some herbs):
- MacBook Air M1 or later
- MacBook Pro (2020, 4 port model) or later
- iMac 2020 or later
- Mac Mini M1 or later
- Mac Pro 2019 or later
- Mac Studio All models
If this suits you, it is not difficult to imagine that the next incarnation of macOS that lands in 2026 may only support Apple Silicon.
Analysis: Some difficult compatibility wrinkles?
Earlier it was thinking that only that Those with a MacBook Pro 2018 Would not be granted for macOS Tahoe, but it seems that many newer models can be bad luck here for support.
Okay, so that feels rather unlikely, that’s why the source indicates their own skepticism about what they have been told. But still, there is some sound logic in the game, as indicates 9 to 5 mac. This lower two-fever model of the MacBook Pro 2020 was equipped with an older CPU than the version with four ports, an Intel 8th gene (Coffee Lake) chip, compared to a 10th gene (Ice Lake) processor.
So that power potentially an important difference in compatibility. With the MacBook Pro 2019 that also uses 8th-gen CPUs, that will also be theoretically excluded, although there is an exception in the 16-inch spin of the laptop harvest 2019 that packed a 9th-gene chip.
However, if Apple is going to cut access to a MacBook Pro 2020 model (with 8th-gen CPU), it may seem a bit strange to ensure one of the 2019 flavors. Admittedly, we could end in a situation in which Apple Caveats that the MacBook Pro 2019 is 16-inch model is good. However, it just seems cleaner in the scenario where Apple excludes the potentially problematic MacBook Pro 2020 model, that it just cut everything for it.
This rumor can bark the wrong compatibility tree completely, please note, and the previous speculation can be correct. We will discover it soon enough, later today, when Apple decreases the wraps from what macOS Tahoe should be WWDC 25.
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