macOS 27 Golden Gate: Apple Intelligence becomes impossible to ignore
macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review
Ars Technica reviews macOS 27 Golden Gate, the first macOS to drop Intel Macs and require Apple Silicon. The update removes the option to disable Apple Intelligence, which now consumes gigabytes of disk space. It also brings a new Siri, under-the-hood performance improvements, and design fixes from Tahoe. The review covers system requirements, the split between older and newer Apple Silicon Macs for advanced AI features, and what to do with unsupported Macs.
Generative AI is unavoidable if you install macOS 27 Golden Gate. I’m being very literal: There used to be a toggle you could hit if you wanted to turn off Apple Intelligence and delete the gigabytes’ worth of AI models it would download to your disk, and now there isn’t.