If this is as stated, then Oracle will still offer macOS&#x2F;x64 ports of Java 11 LTS, Java 17 LTS, Java 21 LTS and Java 25 LTS.Java 25 LTS was released last year. All these LTS versions are still receiving updates. You&#x27;ll only be in trouble if you need some new feature of Java that will only begin to exist in JDK 27 or later, but want to run on macOS&#x2F;x64.

June 2026 Steam Survey says 23% IntelHomebrew 30d says 27% IntelMy gut says 20-25% is a reasonable ballpark.Apple generally provides 6-8 years of OS support for hardware. My 6.5 year old 2019 Macbook Pro works fine with macOS 26; macOS 27 will drop support in September 2026; macOS 28 will drop Rosetta Intel support. macOS 26 get updates thru September 2028 at which point all Intel mac hardware will be &gt;8 years old.[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;hwsurvey&#x2F;processormfg&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;hwsurvey&#x2F;processormfg&#x2F;</a>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;formulae.brew.sh&#x2F;analytics&#x2F;homebrew-os-arch-ci&#x2F;30d&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;formulae.brew.sh&#x2F;analytics&#x2F;homebrew-os-arch-ci&#x2F;30d&#x2F;</a>

We haven&#x27;t given out an Intel Mac at work (enterprise with 50k users, maybe 1&#x2F;5th use Macs) in years....I think we might have a handful of people still using one, but it&#x27;s gotta be 500:1

Browser communites would have this, no?

I&#x27;m curious if there are any decently representative use share stats out there for Mac Intel vs ARM. I tried finding some a while ago and found nothing really conclusive (mostly for niches like developer tools or games - what&#x27;s the long tail look like?).

That sounds reasonable, Intel Macs aren&#x27;t much used anymore.

My guess (without much to substantiate it) is that it will also keep support for running x86_64 programs in virtual machines via `container` too.

Have they announced how they’re going to make it game only? A whitelist based on a hash of the executable? That seems cumbersome.

This keeps getting posted and is not true. Rosetta is still present and working. It throws a deprecation warning notice but otherwise runs fine.It&#x27;s macOS 28 that will no longer run x86_64 apps, although games are exempt. Rosetta is basically going game only at that point. They haven&#x27;t announced how long it will keep working in this capacity.

Totally makes sense, macOS Golden Gate will no longer run x64 apps.

&quot;Does the hardware physically work&quot; isn&#x27;t ever really the question under consideration, though, for better or worse. For Macs specifically, it is going to get increasingly difficult to even test things in the coming years. Mac x86 builds are by far the flakiest on GitHub in my experience, there&#x27;s no expanding capacity, only refurbished machines 6 years out, and the number of users is dwindling, not to mention the enormous performance gap. So what do you do? When we last asked about it in a project I work on a few users expressed interest, so we kept it, but that isn&#x27;t forever. The JDK as a project probably has a different risk profile than most other projects too so the cost of keeping around that code can be relatively high.Not saying it is always good, in fact I would say there is rarely a &quot;good&quot; happy outcome in these cases, just trying to give the alternative perspective when you have to make these calls.

The writing has been on the wall for the last 7 years and the LTS of JDK 25 goes until 2030, 11 years from the point Apple announced their intentions. Java for Mac apps or native Java backend development has always been niche as well. For Java development for Linux hosting, you still have a path forwards beyond 2030 with virtualization. How&#x27;s your SPARC dev machine holding up?

That&#x27;s just how things go. But, existing Oracle JDK versions will continue to work, and openjdk might continue to support osx&#x2F;amd64 as a target.. so I wouldn&#x27;t worry too much about this.

&gt; the hardware works with no problemIn the same way that PowerPC and m68k hardware still works, sure. Apple silicon is so performant that (much like those previous two hardware jumps) it&#x27;s not worth maintaining support for the old arch at this point.

Java 25 is an LTS, I guess you can use that for a couple of years still. But at some point of time, macOS will be too old and all kinds of software will no longer install.

Intel Macs can run practically anything. Mine had a triple-boot between macOS, Windows and Arch Linux, back when that kind of thing was possible.Apple&#x27;s really cut off gaming for good. My only hope is that someone ports FEX&#x2F;Proton to macOS, or finds a way to get it running with proper hardware acceleration.

Why? I can upgrade, that&#x27;s not a problem. I&#x27;m just saying macOS works fine so far, almost all of the software works too. But I see increasing amount of announcements like this one suggesting that I&#x27;ll have to replace hardware to get the latest versions. So I guess I will do that only to be able to use that software, not to get better performance.

My mid 2012 air had trouble with os x about 10 years ago. I moved to nixos and haven&#x27;t had any issues since.

I guess I&#x27;m the only one who is still on x64. I don&#x27;t like I&#x27;m pushed to migrate only because the software wants that, otherwise the hardware works with no problem.

I second that. I wouldn’t buy an Intel Mac specifically to run Linux, but my T2 Mac Minis work well for me on Linux. I did have to copy some Broadcom firmware from macOS, and I keep a small macOS installation in order to access recovery mode settings.

Not if the hardware still works and still does the job.

At this point it would be better to migrate to a new MacBook. There has been a lot performance and efficiency improvements with M1+.

If you have Apple Intel hardware, I strongly strongly strongly recommend you migrate to Linux. It works amazingly on MacOS, except I guess the sound drivers aren&#x27;t perfect. Too many security holes in old, unpatched software.

I&#x27;m hoping a 2026 MBP elides the notch

You did well to skip the 2015-2020 era (butterfly keyboards, touchbar).With that said anything M1 or newer is going to be a delightful upgrade for you. An enormous jump in performance, battery life, and thermal performance.

Guess it&#x27;s time to upgrade from my 2014 MBP

I was very confused at first when I read the headline because my brain skipped the x64 and I thought &quot;Wait! No more Java for macOS?&quot;.

&gt; WARNING: The macOS&#x2F;x64 port is deprecated and may be removed in a future release.OK, seems reasonable. Next sentence:&gt; There will be no guarantee that the port will build, much less function.This... Is something quite different? This isn&#x27;t what I think &quot;deprecation&quot; means. The message should say &quot;no longer maintained&quot; if that&#x27;s what they mean. And it should include the &quot;not guaranteed to build, much less function&quot; part.

Apple no longer supports this platform. There is no reason to target it for new releases. Java is not abandoning MacOS.

It&#x27;s only Java on macOS for x64 that gets dropped. Java on Apple&#x27;s M-type CPUs will still be alive and kicking.

It is open source, anyone is free to send patches, given that OpenJDK is like Linux distros.

Write once, run everywhere refers to the target bytecode running on a compliant JVM. Since apple itself has mentioned to officially drop intel support, OpenJDK maintainers have no reason to continue support on a deprecated hardware.
That said, if there is any enterprise&#x2F; community that requires a port for intel macs then, they can maintain it.
link to become a maintainer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openjdk.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;</a>

&quot;a Win10 machine for testing on my left hand side here...&quot;Well, the Latin word for &quot;left&quot; is &quot;sinister&quot;, so that tracks.

Wasn&#x27;t Java once a &quot;write once, run everywhere&quot;? Not that this affects me personally (I use Linux primarily; and have a Win10 machine for testing on my left hand side here), but it seems strange that Oracle supports fewer operating systems rather than more. Perhaps Oracle aims for a windows11-only Java version ... where everyone must verify his or her age.

Practically that means code that is identifiable as LLM, if the code is indistinguishable it is indistinguishable.

Isn&#x27;t this the paid version of the JDK?EDIT: I should actually click the link, not just read the title. Rip.

Thats an arbitrary decision that can easily be reversed.

LLM code isn&#x27;t allowed in OpenJdk.

People said AI was going to replace all programmers, yet AI can&#x27;t even maintain a x64 macOS port of Java.

[stub for offtopicness][Submitted title was &quot;As of JDK 27, Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS&#x2F;x64 port&quot;, which is a quote from the article, but was a bit confusing in the title]

With regards to the last bit, Apple hasn&#x27;t shipped Java as part of the OS in ages.

You may have misread: Java will keep supporting ARM macOS, they&#x27;re just deprecating Intel macOS. Also this is a decision taken by the JVM team, not Apple; the latter simply deprecated their Intel platform first.

Oh, how times have changed.Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced at May&#x27;s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif., Mac OS X will come with a full implementation of Sun Microsystems Inc.&#x27;s Java 2, Standard Edition. It will be the only high-volume OS that does soOracle screwed themselves lately, the licensing push basically started IT departments with exterminating Java and anything related to it.

JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal