- There’s a brand new rumor about which Macs are suitable with macOS 26
- In concept, the lower-end fashions of the MacBook Professional 13-inch from 2020 are dominated out
- Logically, this additionally implies that MacBook Professional fashions from 2019 gained’t be suitable, both – although there might be an exception in that regard
The newest from the rumor mill on compatibility with the subsequent model of macOS is tentatively ruling out a surprisingly new Mac with an Intel chip, a MacBook Professional from 2020 to be exact.
A recent checklist of suitable Macs for what’s supposedly macOS Tahoe (or macOS 26) comes from a non-public supply on X that 9to5Mac flagged up. The tech website notes that it’s holding the account nameless, which is honest sufficient, however that it’s a reliable supply that “usually shares correct info” on Apple’s software program plans.
The checklist of Macs which might be ‘good to go’ with macOS Tahoe echoes the beforehand leaked one, lending extra weight to that, but it surely provides one other laptop computer: Apple’s MacBook Professional 13-inch from 2020, the entry-level mannequin with simply two Thunderbolt ports quite than 4. (And there are probably extra MacBook Professional fashions unnoticed within the chilly right here, by logical extension, and I’ll come again to that time shortly).
Nonetheless, the supply doesn’t sound absolutely satisfied about what they’ve heard, including that they “don’t fairly imagine it” as 9 to five Mac notes.
So, assuming that is true, we’ve got a barely revised checklist of Macs which might be going to be suitable with macOS 26 (apply some seasoning now):
- MacBook Air M1 or later
- MacBook Professional (2020, 4 port mannequin) or later
- iMac 2020 or later
- Mac mini M1 or later
- Mac Professional 2019 or later
- Mac Studio all fashions
If this pans out, it isn’t troublesome to think about that the next incarnation of macOS that lands in 2026 may solely assist Apple silicon.
Evaluation: Some tough compatibility wrinkles?
Beforehand the considering was that solely these with a MacBook Professional 2018 wouldn’t be dealt into the hand for macOS Tahoe, but it surely appears a lot newer fashions might be out of luck for assist right here.
Okay, in order that does really feel quite unlikely, which is why the supply signifies their very own skepticism about what they’ve been informed. However nonetheless, there may be some sound logic at play right here, as 9 to five Mac factors out. This lower-end two-port mannequin of the MacBook Professional 2020 was geared up with an older CPU than the four-port model, an Intel Eighth-gen (Espresso Lake) chip, in comparison with a Tenth-gen (Ice Lake) processor.
So, that may probably be a key distinction within the compatibility stakes. With the MacBook Professional 2019 utilizing Eighth-gen CPUs, too, that’ll theoretically be dominated out too, though there’s an exception within the 16-inch spin of the 2019 laptop computer crop which packed a Ninth-gen chip.
Nonetheless, if Apple goes to chop off entry to a MacBook Professional 2020 mannequin (with Eighth-gen CPU), then it’d possibly appear somewhat odd to cater to one of many 2019 flavors earlier than it. Granted, we may find yourself in a state of affairs the place Apple caveats that the MacBook Professional 2019 16-inch mannequin is okay. Nonetheless, it simply appears cleaner within the state of affairs the place Apple guidelines out the doubtless problematic MacBook Professional 2020 mannequin, that it’d additionally merely lower out all the things earlier than it.
This rumor could be barking up the mistaken compatibility tree fully, thoughts you, and the earlier hypothesis might be right. We’ll discover out quickly sufficient, later right now the truth is, when Apple will take the wraps off what ought to be macOS Tahoe at WWDC 25.
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