macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review

macOS 27 Golden Gate marks a major strategic shift for Apple endpoints: it drops support for all Intel Macs and effectively makes Apple Intelligence a core, non-optional part of the operating system. For CIOs and IT leaders, this accelerates hardware refresh cycles, narrows the viable device fleet to Apple Silicon, and increases the importance of planning for model-specific AI capabilities, RAM requirements, and software compatibility as Apple further ties new features to newer chips. While the OS brings incremental reliability and usability improvements, the bigger business implication is that endpoint management, procurement, and security planning must now assume an AI-first, Apple-Silicon-only future.