Official List of Apple Macs that can run macOS Monterey

[tonymacx86]

• iMac Late 2015 and later
  • Model Identifier: iMac16,1
• Mac Pro Late 2013 and later
  • Model Identifier: MacPro6,1
• iMac Pro 2017 and later
  • Model Identifier: iMacPro1,1
• Mac mini Late 2014 and later
  • Model Identifier: Macmini7,1
• MacBook Air Early 2015 and later
  • Model Identifier: MacBookAir7,1
• MacBook Early 2016 and later
  • Model Identifier: MacBook9,1
• MacBook Pro Early 2015 and later
  • Model Identifier: MacBookPro12,1

macOS Sonoma

macOS Sonoma brings stunning screen savers, desktop widgets, new ways to share work and web apps along with fun personalization tools and Game mode.

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[bookercooker]

so every mac and "mac" i own

 

[TurbineSeaplane]

This is great

Hacks' look to be viable for at least 5 more years

 

[bookercooker]

This is great

Hacks' look to be viable for at least 5 more years

raspberry pi enters the chat after x86 gets dropped

 

[HawkTron]

Big sigh of relief! My 17,1 late 2015 iMac hack made the cut.

 

[Middleman]

Big sigh of relief! My 17,1 late 2015 iMac hack made the cut.

At least its not as bad as my 2006 'white' Macbook2,1. That unit officially only received 3 generations of OS updates from 10.4 Tiger to 10.7 Lion. It was capable of more but they weren't having it.

 

[Gobias]

I just recently changed my system definition from iMac 14,2 to 15,1 on my Haswell build so that I could update to Big Sur. I wonder if it would run well on iMac 17,1 or if I'd need to stick with Big Sur.

 

[trs96]

Apple dropped iMac14,2 support with the Big Sur announcement. Once again it makes no sense to drop support for the mid 2014 5K iMac15,1 and keep support for the ancient MP 6,1 and woefully underpowered 2014 Mac mini with a dual core laptop CPU. Why Apple ? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[Azimuth1]

Apple dropped iMac14,2 support with the Big Sur announcement.

Incidentally those were the last machines to have Broadcom wi-Fi/BT card?

 

[trs96]

Incidentally those were the last machines to have Broadcom wi-Fi/BT card?

The still supported iMac 17,1 has Broadcom Wifi/BT. It's a BCM943602CDP card. Super expensive though. I'd guess that the drivers for the related BCM94360CD will remain in Monterey, we'll have to wait and see once the public beta lands in July.

See: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08428ZJV9/?tag=tonymacx86com-20