Apple’s WWDC 2024 event on June 10 finally focused on the operating system glow-ups that’ll sit behind the screens of most Macs released in the past few years.
MacOS 15, officially dubbed MacOS Sequoia, doesn’t have an official release date yet, but typical timelines from the developer conference in years past point to beta availability across the summer leading up to official release in September or October 2024. Similarly, Apple hasn’t yet released details on the specific Mac devices that will support MacOS Sequoia. But that doesn’t mean we can’t speculate.
Firstly, any Macs with the M1 chip or higher are almost guaranteed to be safe. Past that, we can unpack lists of supported Macs from the past two MacOS launches to get an idea of the devices Apple may be cutting off.
The Mac operating system update unveiled at WWDC in June 2023, MacOS Sonoma, works on MacBook Pros and Airs from from 2018 or later, iMacs, Mac Minis, and Mac Pros from 2019 or later, Mac Studios from 2022 or later, and the 2017 iMac Pro. The most notable missing models between this list and that of 2022’s MacOS Ventura supported devices are 2017 MacBook Pros and Airs — meaning that 2018 MacBook Pros and Airs, as well as the 2017 iMac Pro, are the most likely devices on the chopping block for Sequoia.
If you’re in the market for a new Mac device ahead of MacOS Sequoia’s release, here are all of the Macs that Apple has dropped in 2023 and 2024 (so far) that you can find on sale:
MacBook Air
2023 MacBook Air (M3, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,199 $1,299 at Amazon (save $100)
2023 MacBook Air (M3, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,199 $1,299 at Best Buy (save $100)
2024 15-inch MacBook Air (M3, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,404 $1,499 at Amazon (save $95)
2023 15-inch MacBook Air (M2, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $1,599 $1,899 at Best Buy (save $300)
MacBook Pro
2023 14.2-inch MacBook Pro (M3, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,449 $1,599 at Amazon (save $150)
Mac
Mac mini (M2, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) — $499 $599 at Best Buy (save $100)
Mac mini (M2, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $699 $799 at Best Buy (save $100)
Whether you’re still rocking the Touch Bar on your 2020 Pro or gave into the M3 MacBook Pro hype, MacOS Sequoia will likely be at your fingertips come fall. Enjoy clutch iPhone mirroring (and phone control) directly from your desktop or laptop, tiled apps, a more streamlined (and less distracting) Safari experience, serious new gaming options, and Apple’s new in-house password manager.
Credit: Apple
Of course, Apple isn’t immune to the pull of AI (that’s Apple Intelligence to you), as MacOS Sequoia has also been sprinkled with magic machine learning dust from ChatGPT to enhanced Siri commands.
