Ars Technica reviews macOS 27 Golden Gate: ‘A major leap for Apple Intelligence’

macOS 27 Golden Gate
Andrew Cunningham’s Ars Technica review of macOS 27 Golden Gate frames the release as an odd but useful pairing: a restrained “Snow Leopard”-style polish pass on last year’s Tahoe redesign, and the first real step-up for Apple Intelligence since it launched.
Apple Intelligence is no longer optional. The old toggle that let you turn it off and reclaim the models’ disk space is gone, so the AI stack now defines the release as much as the new Siri,