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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: [NEWS] Intel Macs and apps being obsoleted by next few macOS
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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:22:45 -0700
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On 2025-06-09 23:32, Your Name wrote:
> 
> At today's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announced the 
> newest version of macOS, now using the year *after* its release as the 
> number, and still using codenames (the only Apple OS to do so).
> 
> 
> macOS 26 (Tahoe) will be the last version that will run on any Intel Mac.
> 
> Following on from that, next year's macOS 27 will be the last version to 
> "fully" Rosetta 2 support for running old Intel apps, although Rosetta 2 
> in macOS 28 will be "scaled back significantly to support only legacy 
> apps like old games that won't be updated again."
> 
>    macOS 27 will be the last operating system to fully support Rosetta 2
> <https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/10/macos-27-will-be-the-last- 
> operating-system-to-fully-support-rosetta-2>
> 
> 
> 

So a full 7 years after the first Apple Silicon Mac was released, there 
will still be full support for running Intel software.