20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again

Ars Technica
By Andrew CunninghamJun 15, 2026, 12:32 pm130 ptsTrending
The release of macOS 27 later this fall won't quite close the book on the Intel Mac. The last handful of models that could run macOS 26 Tahoe will be eligible for security and Safari updates for two more years, and elements of the Rosetta compatibility layer for running Intel code on Apple Silicon Macs will be…

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