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Apple Intelligence Apparently Too Smart for M1 Macs After Listing Error
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No it wouldn't. Dishonesty would do far more damage. Just put out a statement "Sorry, we tried but on-device AI is required for both privacy and security but on-device AI won't work properly with M1 Macs or on 8 GB machines in general."
Old hardware often doesn't support new features, that's not unusual. Monterey ran fine in a 2014 Mini, but not every Monterey feature worked.
And yes everyone was yelling at Tightwad Tim to get the base RAM up to 16 GB at least a year before he did it. If he's feeling guilty he could take 1% of Apple's cash and offer a fatter trade-in allowance for 8 GB Macs.
Which brings up the other question, is the NPU on the base M1 up to the task? It wasn't that impressive. I keep hearing the you need 40 TOPS and the M1 only has 11.
I approve of MR being slightly snarky in the titles on Apple's nonsense. Keep it up.
I still feel that customers are being mislead, to outright being lied to about AI (both "Artificial" and "Apple" Intelligence).
There is literally zero intelligence behind it, not what any reasonable person would consider intelligence anyways. There is zero reasoning or logical thought, just regurgitation of words it feels (via inference) best fits after the previous word based on training data. AI does not "understand" the data.
Many experts feel the AI bubble is close to collapsing, and simply used as a industry buzzword to generate venture capital, much like "quantum computing".
There is literally zero intelligence behind it, not what any reasonable person would consider intelligence anyways. There is zero reasoning or logical thought, just regurgitation of words it feels (via inference) best fits after the previous word based on training data. AI does not "understand" the data.
Many experts feel the AI bubble is close to collapsing, and simply used as a industry buzzword to generate venture capital, much like "quantum computing".
How does someone use AI correctly in your view? What kind of AI are you talking about?
Generative AI that we have now is not a bicycle for our mind, it's a replacement. Both a tool and AI save time, but the fundamental difference is there is no amount of utilizing a tool that will replace its user, because a tool (like a computer) is dumb and does only exactly what it's instructed to do, and we know (an expert at least knows) exactly how it works. AI doesn't follow instructions, it follows prompts. No one understands how it makes its decisions; so it ultimately makes its own decisions. That's a key difference.
If AI is good enough, it will replace the user, just like hiring and using a very competent assistant, or rather a "right hand" person, enough will make the hirer entirely redundant. That's great if you're rich and want to live the rest of your life in leisure. But it also erodes one's autonomy just like a rich person depending on their personal assistant so much that they no longer know how to do anything or make decisions, basically reverting to infancy (this is why some rich people refuse to hire a personal assistant). The only reason it hasn't gotten to that point is because AI is still relatively bad. But it's getting better daily.
Do you envision a consumer using AI correctly in a qualitative way? Or just arbitrarily limiting its usage? Again, I don't think you can change what it is qualitatively. It is what it is. One can limit usage, but it's very difficult to know where to draw the line.
Zero concern with either it being true or not. Turned that off day 1, saved a ton of storage space, too.
Apple confusing itself because they are not using model year naming of devices yet.
No doubt Apple went to unified model year naming of OS’s because of such confusion.
Past time to tell marketing that the deliberate intransparancy in product naming is causing errors and needs to go now too.
All the products and maybe even the chips should go to this. I am not bothered by the idea of a MacBook 27 with an M27 chip, nor a Mac 27 with an M26 chip.
No doubt Apple went to unified model year naming of OS’s because of such confusion.
Past time to tell marketing that the deliberate intransparancy in product naming is causing errors and needs to go now too.
All the products and maybe even the chips should go to this. I am not bothered by the idea of a MacBook 27 with an M27 chip, nor a Mac 27 with an M26 chip.
I have an iPhone 13 mini and it bothers me that I can't use Apple Intelligence on it. Everything else works perfectly fine and I'd like to keep this small sized format. I have 1300 tabs open in Safari - no problem! All my apps are open and there's no RAM issues or whatsoever. iOS is handling it very well and the phone is very comfortable. Only with some apps there is occasional refreshing.
But I can't use Apple Intelligence. Maybe it's legitimate. But I'd use it mainly to summarise articles in the press. I can't imagine it needs that many resources. It could easily outsource it over cloud computing also.
Is this the same person who fixes OS bugs? Apple level of lack of attention to detail
This is a sign that each M series will be dropped for support at once on some arbitrary hardware feature, even if the upgraded versions are still fast and capable of doing that a bit slower.
It could possibly be like AV1 support for M1 series, a feature that they added to M2 😄
It could possibly be like AV1 support for M1 series, a feature that they added to M2 😄
The constant push to upgrade your OS and hardware is really tiring. At some point I might switch to Linux just to escape this stupid hamster wheel.
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Apple deserves another class action for this garbage. If they will disable rollbacks and also disable a perfectly working feature (playground, for example) on a device, what do they expect. It’s pure greed.
On one hand, this is a problem if true. M1 Macs of any color are more than capable for the next 10+ years, and for Apple to deprecate them (even in part) to try and upsell newer Macs is heinous.
On the other hand, outside of the principled concern I just stated, I’d have no issues if this were true. Apple Intelligence is a marketing gimmick and most average users (like myself) couldn’t give two ***** about AI from any company. Get that **** off my computer, Apple.
On the other hand, outside of the principled concern I just stated, I’d have no issues if this were true. Apple Intelligence is a marketing gimmick and most average users (like myself) couldn’t give two ***** about AI from any company. Get that **** off my computer, Apple.
Barring quite a change in UI direction from Apple, I've pretty much already decided to just ride on Sequoia for quite a while.
It might end up pushing me to grab an M4 MBA at some point as my next laptop since that is Sequoia compatible also.
For now though, I continue to use my 2015 MBP 15" on Sequoia as my travel machine.
Unless I’m wrong, you might need to hurry with that MBA. Apple allows to downgrade to the OS the computer shipped with, so once MBAs are shipping with Tahoe, that’s it – they’ll update the firmware.
I got an open box M4 MBA recently, it was on Sequoia, and that’s where it’s staying.