@rafaelfalcon wrote:
As part of the url article posted, it is that my MacBoo Air 2017 will not support MacOS Ventura, I hope that this article fails because of two year ago I have changed my 2012 MacBoo Air because it does no support new MacOs releases. Any way, the article is clear and so, thanks you for your help.
Sorry to be the confirmer of bad news, but your 2017 MacBook Air will not be able to run macOS Ventura. It is excluded from Apple's official support list, which you can see near the bottom of https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-ventura-preview/.
(You might be able to get Ventura working with a third-party hack but that is not a supported configuration for Apple or VMware Fusion; macOS Ventura running that way is likely to be missing support for some existing hardware features, have more compatibility issues than expected, and be less stable.)
The 2017 MacBook Air is the only 2017 Mac excluded from Ventura, because it is technically identical to the 2015 MacBook Air, apart from minor hardware changes such as more storage in base models, and in one of the base models a slightly faster CPU (of the same generation). The key reason these models are excluded is the processor generation: all Intel Macs supported by macOS Ventura have a generation 7 (Kaby Lake) or later processor, whereas the 2015/2017 MacBook Air has a generation 5 (Broadwell) processor.
This also means you may not be able to run macOS Ventura in a virtual machine on a 2017 MacBook Air, because parts of Ventura are known to require processor features which do not exist in older processor generations.
macOS Monterey is expected to get a further two years of security updates so you don't need to panic, but you will need a plan in two years time if you want to keep running VMware Fusion in a supported macOS version on an Intel Mac (required for Intel guest operating systems).
If you are looking for another Mac soon, I'd recommend avoiding other 2017 models as they might be dropped by macOS 14 next year. If you can delay the decision until mid June 2023 then we'll be able to confirm which models will be supported by macOS 14.
For using VMware Fusion you'd also be better served with a Mac that has more than two CPU cores (only having two cores can result in performance problems with virtualisation if your guest OS needs two cores, including Windows 10/11 and macOS guests). You should also make sure the Mac has at least 16 GB of memory and plenty of storage for your VMs.
Considering 2018 and later Intel Mac notebooks only, a minimum of four cores narrows the options to this list:
- 2020 MacBook Air with a Core i5 or Core i7 processor (not the entry level 1.1 GHz model with a Core i3).
- 2019 or 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro with two Thunderbolt 3 ports.
- 2018, 2019 or 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro with four Thunderbolt 3 ports.
- 2018 or 2019 15-inch MacBook Pro.
- 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro.
If desktop Macs are an option, you can add the following to the list. I'm excluding most iMacs because they don't have a T2 security chip and I'm thinking Apple might require that for Intel Macs in a future macOS version, which would result in the 2017 and 2019 iMacs (including all 21.5-inch iMacs) being dropped earlier than other models.
- 2018 Mac Mini (still sold new by Apple but probably not for much longer).
- 2020 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display.
- 2017 iMac Pro (the only 2017 model likely to be supported for longer than the rest from that year, and it has a T2 chip).
- 2019 Mac Pro.
Looking further ahead, we all need to plan for the eventual end of macOS support for all Intel Macs, which also means VMware Fusion would stop supporting Intel Macs, and it would no longer be possible to run Intel-based guest operating systems in a VM on an Mac which is still getting security updates. There are several options beyond that point, which mainly depend on whether you still need to run Intel-based guest operating systems in a VM.
