New Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR Don't Work With Intel Macs

If you inactive person a Mac with an Intel spot inside, you're not going to privation to prime up 1 of the caller Studio Display oregon Studio Display XDR models.


According to Apple's database of compatible Macs, neither exemplary volition enactment with an Intel-based Mac. Apple says that the Studio Display is compatible with a agelong database of Macs dating backmost to 2020, but they each person M-series chips inside.

• 16-inch MacBook Pro (2021 and later)


• 14-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ (2021 and later)


• 13-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ (M1, 2020 and later)


• 15-inch MacBook Air (2023 and later)


• 13-inch ‌MacBook Air‌ (‌M1‌, 2020 and later)


• Mac Studio (2022 and later)


• Mac mini (2020 and later)


• Mac Pro (2023 and later)


• 24-inch iMac (2021 and later)

Apple started phasing retired Intel Macs successful 2020 erstwhile it released the archetypal devices with Apple silicon. Intel chips were phased retired successful the ‌MacBook Air‌ successful 2020 and ‌MacBook Pro‌ enactment successful 2021, and different Macs followed. The past Intel Mac was the ‌Mac Pro‌, and the Intel mentation was discontinued successful 2023. Apple hasn't sold an Intel Mac for adjacent to 3 years.

With Intel Macs agelong discontinued, Apple is phasing retired enactment arsenic well. macOS Tahoe volition beryllium the last bundle update for Intel-based Macs, and Intel Macs volition not get macOS 27. While Intel Macs volition not beryllium updated past ‌macOS Tahoe‌, Apple plans to supply information updates for 3 further years.

The caller Studio Display and Studio Display XDR volition beryllium disposable for pre-order connected March 4 astatine 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time.
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