macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era
macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era
macOS 27 仅支持 Apple Silicon，苹果正式终结 Intel Mac 时代
As Apple announced last year, this year’s macOS release will end support for Intel Macs. The macOS 27 Golden Gate release will require a Mac with an Apple Silicon chip inside, including the original M1 that launched in the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini back in late 2020. 正如苹果去年所宣布的那样，今年的 macOS 版本将停止对 Intel 处理器的 Mac 提供支持。macOS 27 “Golden Gate” 版本将要求 Mac 必须搭载 Apple Silicon 芯片，包括 2020 年底首次在 MacBook Air、MacBook Pro 和 Mac mini 上推出的初代 M1 芯片。
Intel Macs running macOS 26 Tahoe can expect security and Safari patches for about two more years after the release of macOS 27 Golden Gate. Macs running macOS 15 Sequoia will receive one more year of updates. 运行 macOS 26 “Tahoe” 的 Intel Mac 在 macOS 27 “Golden Gate” 发布后，预计还能获得约两年的安全补丁和 Safari 更新。而运行 macOS 15 “Sequoia” 的 Mac 则还能获得一年的更新支持。
Apple Silicon Macs will still be able to run Intel Mac apps via the Rosetta 2 compatibility layer in macOS 27, but future releases will begin to limit the technology (Apple has said it will mainly be used to support older games that still use Intel code). 在 macOS 27 中，Apple Silicon Mac 仍可通过 Rosetta 2 兼容层运行 Intel 架构的 Mac 应用，但未来的版本将开始限制这项技术（苹果表示，它将主要用于支持仍使用 Intel 代码的旧游戏）。
This change has been a long time coming, and every new macOS release has left a longer and longer list of Intel Macs behind. But many Mac owners who purchased late-model Intel machines in 2019 and 2020 could still run the latest version of the operating system, and third-party utilities like the OpenCore Legacy Patcher helped more adventurous Mac owners use their unsupported hardware a bit longer. 这一转变酝酿已久，随着每一代 macOS 的发布，被淘汰的 Intel Mac 名单也越来越长。不过，许多在 2019 年和 2020 年购买了后期 Intel 机型的用户，依然能够运行最新版本的操作系统；而像 OpenCore Legacy Patcher 这样的第三方工具，也帮助了一些爱折腾的用户让不支持的硬件多服役了一段时间。
Those workarounds will presumably no longer work for macOS 27 Golden Gate. Apple is jettisoning most of the remaining Intel code in macOS, as it did when ending support for PowerPC machines in the Mac OS X Snow Leopard release; without that code, continuing to force new macOS versions to run on old Intel machines will become functionally impossible. 可以预见，这些变通方法在 macOS 27 “Golden Gate” 上将不再奏效。苹果正在剔除 macOS 中大部分剩余的 Intel 代码，正如当年在 Mac OS X Snow Leopard 版本中结束对 PowerPC 架构的支持时所做的那样；没有了这些代码，强行让新版 macOS 在旧款 Intel 机器上运行将变得在功能上无法实现。
Even some Apple Silicon Macs will miss out on some of the new Apple Intelligence features Apple demonstrated during its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote today. The basic version of Apple Intelligence will continue to work on all Apple Silicon Macs, including M1 devices and models like the MacBook Neo with just 8GB of RAM. But Apple’s more capable on-device models will require an M3 Mac or newer with at least 12GB of RAM. 即使是部分 Apple Silicon Mac，也无法使用苹果在今天全球开发者大会（WWDC）主题演讲中展示的一些全新 Apple Intelligence 功能。基础版的 Apple Intelligence 将继续支持所有 Apple Silicon Mac，包括 M1 设备以及仅配备 8GB 内存的 MacBook Neo 等机型。但苹果更强大的端侧模型将要求搭载 M3 或更新芯片，且至少拥有 12GB 内存的 Mac。
The first macOS 27 and developer beta is available now, and a version aimed at public beta testers will follow in July. The final release will land in the fall. macOS 27 的首个开发者测试版现已发布，面向公开测试人员的版本将于 7 月推出。正式版将于今年秋季发布。