One Year Left: Apple’s Long Goodbye For Intel Macs

Apple announced at WWDC that macOS Tahoe will be the final release supporting Intel Macs, giving users one more year of new versions along with potential security fixes. Matthew Firlik, Apple Senior Director of Developer Relations, made the announcement during the Platforms State of the Union rather than the main keynote. The author argues the decision is unnecessary and wastes good hardware, while noting that the 2019 and 2020 Intel models will likely still receive security updates and can run Linux. The article also points out that the Mac Mini M4 at $599 is about 30% cheaper than the cheapest Mac 20 years ago, after inflation.