macOS Tahoe signals that the end is near for Intel Macs, dumping all but four models

All Intel MacBook Airs and Mac minis are gone; just a few other models remain.

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[Galvanic]

So cool that the MacBook Air I bought my wife less than 5 years ago is no longer supported.

Did it magically stop working when Apple made the announcement? Or is it exactly the same machine as it was before this morning?

 

[Galvanic]

Apple is very aggressive about requiring the latest OS.

For example, XCode requires 15.2 or later.. which came out in December.

15.2 supports machines as far back as 2017, so I'm not really seeing that as a big issue. But again, the larger point is that a machine that's not supported by MacOS 26 works just as well at this moment (and for quite a while in the future) as it did before the keynote. It's not suddenly more vulnerable; the software on it hasn't magically stopped working. It's just a workable as it was a few hours ago.