Are Intel-based Macs still supported by Apple?

Apple has indeed discontinued the manufacture of Intel CPU based Macs. However, Apple still supports Intel Macs. The current version of macOS 15 Sequoia still runs on Intel Macs... FOR NOW. But like the past switch from Motorola Power PC CPUs to Intel CPUs that support won't last forever. At some point in the unknown future macOS will stop supporting Intel Macs.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard stopped support of Power PC Macs in August 2009. Apple switched to Intel in June 2005. Four years if that’s any guide to the future.

Oh, and FWIW anyone who calls you dumb while contradicting the facts is just a loud mouthed nincompoop.

All Mac models currently sold my Apple use Apple designed M series chips (also known as Apple silicon).

They are ARM-based.

If the random person needs more information, go to Mac - Apple and review each model currently sold.

Dillonms8203 wrote:

didn't apple discontinue intel-based macs?

Yes. Apple has discontinued all of their Intel-based Macs.

When Apple came out with Apple Silicon processors, they took the A-series designs from the iPhones and iPads, and scaled them up for higher performance.

The first Intel-based Macs to be replaced were entry-level ones – in November 2020. For a while, some Mac lines included both "low-end" Apple Silicon Macs and "high-end" Intel ones (that were higher-end in terms of expansion, not necessarily in terms of speed!). That gave Apple time to scale up plain M-series chips to get Pro, Max, and Ultra chips that were suitable for knocking Intel processors out of "higher-end" Mac models.

In June 2023, Apple discontinued the final Intel-based Mac – the desktop Mac Pro (2019). The transition of new models to Apple Silicon was complete.

some random person is trying to call me dumb and say that apple didn't discontinue intel macs, because as far as I'm aware, they were discontinued in 2023.

the current macs are "arm-based" right?

Yes. The Apple Silicon instruction set is based on the ARM instruction set.

Note that some Intel-based Macs are recent enough that Apple still supports them with hardware repair service. Some are recent enough that they can run the current version of macOS: Sequoia.

macOS Sequoia - Apple

Sequoia will not run on any Intel-based Mac released before 2017, and the only 2017 Mac on which it runs is the Intel-Xeon-based iMac Pro workstation. It seems likely that many of the Intel-based Macs that can run Sequoia won't be able to run its successor.