When will Apple End Support for Intel Macs?

Exploring Apple’s Journey from PowerPC to Apple Silicon Chips

Image courtesy of the author (Based on Apple.com)

Here it is. It took three years for Apple to stop selling the last model with an Intel processor. That was the Mac Pro, which now has its successor with an Apple Silicon chip dubbed the M2 Ultra.

Now all that’s left to do is to cut macOS support for all Intel Macs, and the company can successfully forget about this chapter of its history. But how much longer will it take?

Apple has finally completed the transition on its Macs to the new chips, at this point, you will no longer buy a single machine with an Intel processor in its portfolio.

Perhaps rightly, though, all owners of those companies’ computers fitted with these processors have been dreading this. Sooner rather than later, they won’t be able to install the new macOS on them.

PowerPC to Intel

This isn’t the first time Macs have switched from one architecture to another. In 2005, Apple announced that it would switch from PowerPC to Intel processors.

At the time, the latter had much faster and more efficient processors than the PowerPC ones, allowing the company to create more modern computers like the first MacBook Air.