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    macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review

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    By Andrew Cunningham

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    macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review

    The big missing piece for Tahoe and Apple’s other fall releases is the new “more personal Siri,” a version of the voice assistant that Apple plans to make more capable by backing it up with a large language model that can work with content on your device or in your iCloud account. This feature was somewhat infamously promised as part of last year’s release but got bumped back after development difficulties. Apple executives claim that underlying improvements to Apple Intelligence in macOS 26 and the other operating systems will make it possible to ship the new Siri this year.

    Otherwise, it doesn’t look like there’s much in the “later this fall/coming next year” category for this year’s releases. If Apple has decided to keep its focus on the ecosystem-wide aesthetic redesign and a long-awaited high-stakes Siri update for this particular update cycle, I can hardly blame them.

    Options (or lack thereof) for owners of unsupported Macs

    Usually, we talk about what options Intel Mac owners have if their hardware is still in decent shape and they’d like to continue using it with different software, but we’re getting to the point where Intel Mac owners are just running out of options.

    In past years, Windows 10 has been a workable alternative to tossing functional hardware, and it’s the only other operating system that Apple officially supported on the hardware, thanks to Apple’s Boot Camp software and drivers. But Windows 10’s security updates dry up in October of this year (or October 2026, if you jump through the hoops to sign up for a year of extra patches), which actually makes Windows 10 worse on many Intel Macs than just staying on macOS.

    Windows 11 isn’t officially supported on any Intel Mac, since Apple doesn’t enable the built-in TPM 2.0 module in Intel’s CPUs. But as of this writing, it’s still possible to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. Your experience with this should mostly be pretty good, as I’ve found on the motley collection of 12- and 13-year-old PC hardware that I’ve run it on.

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