by Aurornis on 9/17/25, 10:58 PM
Title is misleading. Some Mac Studio M3 Ultra users are seeing upgrade failures, but others are not.
The source for this article is an Apple.com discussion forum thread with a couple dozen complaints so far.
Definitely an issue for some, but declaring it "incompatible" is misleading.
by codys on 9/17/25, 10:54 PM
It seems surprising to me that this kind of basic thing (does the update work on the hardware we've released) wasn't validated by Apple prior to releasing this software update. Perhaps a sign of issues in the QA process at Apple around MacOS?
by jtthe13 on 9/18/25, 6:41 AM
Tahoe running fine on my M3 ultra. The only issue on the studio and the laptop was the initial sluggishness that I ended up attributing to the first spotlight indexing. Nothing new then.
by daft_pink on 9/17/25, 10:50 PM
So much for buying a their most expensive model with a slower single core clock speed and slightly worse single core speed than their base model iPad Pro.
by TomaszZielinski on 9/17/25, 11:14 PM
by xrisk on 9/17/25, 10:57 PM
actual title: "macOS 26.0 Tahoe build 25A354 is incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra"
by slowmovintarget on 9/17/25, 11:48 PM
Oh how I wish Arch or even Asahi supported the current generation of Mac hardware. Great hardware and memory architecture for inference, saddled with Tahoe.
by TechSquidTV on 9/17/25, 11:00 PM
During the beta at least, inexperienced a ton of crashes
by charamis on 9/17/25, 10:54 PM
If that does not prove that Apple has been very hasty with this update overall, I don't know what does. The bar for quality control has been set kinda low.
by fakebizprez on 9/17/25, 11:03 PM
As someone who owns the M3 Ultra Studio, and has been on the iOS 26 Beta since day 1, I will keep this piece of trash off my machine as long as I can.
Brother Tim Cook's days are numbered.