MacOS 27 Golden Gate: All the Macs Compatible With the New OS

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Apple's next Mac operating system update moves on from Intel chips.

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Apple's MacOS 27 announcement at WWDC 2026 on Monday might have focused on some trippy hippy visuals and strange "summer of love"-themed poetry, but the next desktop operating system update is more representative of sterile, clean design choices.

When it arrives this fall, MacOS 27 Golden Gate will overhaul the Liquid Glass visuals that were introduced last year and add support for ultrawide displays. Additionally, Apple promises a bevy of performance upgrades, including quicker AirDrop transfers, faster start-up page loading, faster file browsing and more. Of course, there's also a healthy heaping of Apple AI features coming to the Calendar, Messages, Mail and other apps.

Not every Apple computer is going to be able to make the jump to MacOS 27, though. If your computer is too old and it has an unsupported processor, you're going...

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