… 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. …
… Companies are used to competing on price and features with $1,000-and-up Apple laptops like the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, but their $600 and $700 models usually come with cut corners and compromises that are more noticeable than the Neo’s. …
… Stating the obvious: Mac mini, Mac Studio, and MacBook Neo The Macs with the longest shipping estimates are generally the ones everyone has already been focusing on: the Mac mini, the Mac Studio, and the MacBook Neo. …
… The Laptop Ultra is Microsoft’s first attempt to follow the MacBook Pro formula: it’s like the other Surface Laptops, just with more power. …
… But MacBook Neo availability has been much better than for the Mac mini or Studio. …
… Bridge over troubled water In retrospect, the first “Apple Silicon Mac” was not the M1 MacBook Air or Mac mini that came out in late 2020 but the redesigned butterfly-keyboard MacBook Pros that released in late 2016. …
… I have the first beta of macOS 27 Golden Gate running on an M1 MacBook Air—the oldest, slowest hardware Apple supports now that Intel compatibility is out the window. …