macOS 27 Golden Gate Is the Last to Support Intel Apps via Rosetta 2

macOS 27 Golden Gate Is the Last to Support Intel Apps via Rosetta 2

Yeah they changed it at some point. I was thinking the same until just recently.

MacOS 27 won't run on Intel hardware, MacOS 28 will end support for x86 apps on Apple Silicon

It’s been nearly six years since Apple released the first Macs with Apple Silicon. But up until now the company has continued to support older Mac laptop and desktop computers with Intel Inside. And the company has also you to run older applications made for Intel-powered Macs on newer models with Apple M series chips. […] The post MacOS 27 won’t run on Intel hardware, MacOS 28 will end support for x86 apps on Apple Silicon appeared first on Lil…

MacOS 27 drops Intel support, will be last release with Rosetta 2 – OSnews

With the announcement of an upcoming new macOS release also come the usual changes in which Macs will still be supported. MacOS 27 Golden Gate is an important release in this regard, as it will be the first release of Apple’s desktop operating system that will be entirely ARM-only, dropping support for all Intel Macs. It’s important to note that Apple will provide three more years of security updates for the final Intel release of macOS, so Inte…

Apple Ends Rosetta 2 with macOS 27 Golden Gate: Which Plugins and DAWs Are Affected

Apple announced at WWDC 2026 that macOS 27 Golden Gate, arriving in September 2026, starts the final countdown. Rosetta 2 largely ends with macOS 28 in fall 2027. That might sound like an abstract system note, but for anyone making music on a Mac, the implications are very real: plugins that haven’t been updated to run natively on Apple Silicon by then will simply stop working. According to a community-tracked database, over 18,800 Intel-only Ma…