Golden Gate: The Mac Just Crossed Its Own Bridge
Yesterday, Apple released macOS 27. Golden Gate. It is the first version of macOS that will not run on a single Intel Mac, and it is the last with full Rosetta 2 support, the translation layer that let Apple silicon Macs run Intel software.1 Four machines that supported the previous release were dropped flat: the 16-inch MacBook Pro from 2019, the 13-inch MacBook Pro from 2020, the 2020 iMac, and the Intel Mac Pro from 2019.2 If you are reading this on one of them, yesterday was the day the current stopped. ...