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Here Are All the macOS Ventura Features Your Intel Mac Won't Support
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Not to worry, Apple is just looking out for the MacOS patcher / bootloader developers by making sure they're more necessary than ever...
Couldn't care less. I'm staying on Mojave until the last transistor on this i9 blinks out.
These nifty new features are okay but I’m still waiting for Apple to add color back to the sidebar - it’s been years now. Why they removed colors from the sidebar and also from other elements of the finder is beyond me. Don’t we still have color vision, shouldn’t we have the option to use color or not?
I wouldn’t recommend staying on Mojave as it no longer receives security updates from Apple. If you want long-term OS support then the Linux and Windows platforms are far better.
I have adult ADHD and having color in the finder elements and sidebar was great. Even though its been years since it has been removed I still miss having color as it made it much faster to move around the folders I placed there.
I plan to keep mine for a long time. Oh well it’s not like my Mac will be worthless if it won’t be able to run the OS released next year.
Apple's public release of macOS Ventura is expected sometime in October, but given the number of features in macOS Monterey that were limited to Apple silicon Macs, will Intel Mac owners again feel left out in the cold this fall?
Fortunately, it doesn't look like that will be the case this time round, with many of the major features in macOS 13 offering full functionality on both Intel and Apple silicon machines.
In fact, as long as your model of Intel Mac matches the minimum requirements for macOS Ventura, there's relatively little in terms of new features that will be off-limits to you. That said, here are three exceptions that we've been able to identify as being exclusive to Apple silicon.
Live Captions
macOS Ventura includes support for Live Captions across all audio content, and that includes FaceTime, allowing you to see automatically transcribed dialogue during calls. Live captions will be available in English and are limited to the iPhone 11 and later, iPad with A12 Bionic and later, and of course Macs with Apple silicon.
Reference Mode with Sidecar
Reference Mode with Sidecar lets you use a 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Liquid Retina XDR display as a secondary display with your Mac. "Reference" refers to the accurate and consistent representation of colors in professional workflows that involve review and approval, color grading, and compositing.
In Apple's example, the primary interface from Da Vinci Resolve is shown on a connected Studio Display, with color grading scopes on a MacBook Pro screen, and the fullscreen output image on an M1 iPad Pro in Sidecar mode.
Emoji Support in Dictation Mode
In macOS Ventura, Dictation automatically punctuates text with commas, full stops and question marks as you speak. You can also insert emoji with just your voice, although Apple says this particular feature only works on Macs with M1 and later processors.
Dictation is available in Cantonese (Hong Kong), English (Australia, Canada, India, UK, US), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland, Taiwan) and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, US).
Summing Up
As this short list demonstrates, there are far fewer restrictions in macOS Ventura for Intel users to contend with than there are in macOS Monterey. That said, macOS 13 does drop support for some Intel Macs sold between 2013 and 2016, so you may find that your model simply didn't make the cut for official compatibility.
Apple has almost finalized its two-year transition from Intel processors to its custom Apple silicon chips in Macs, with the changeover to be completed when the Mac Pro gets the Apple silicon treatment sometime this year. Expect Apple to reduce software support for Intel machines at a faster rate from 2023 and beyond.
macOS 13 Ventura is available to developers from this week, with Apple planning to provide a public beta in July.
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It’s not like a Mac that runs Ventura will be worthless if it can’t run next years OS.
Nothing here that would compel me to upgrade but my 2012 mini is stuck on Catalina and support for that ends this fall when Ventura is released. So the time is coming for me to upgrade even though the 2012 mini still runs perfectly fine for my uses although I would like to get touch ID on my desktop as well as USB C.
Sweet. Now depending on how game is programmed, it would mean able to run under Metal 3 or not. Unless Apple stops changing their Metal every year breaking old stuff in the progress I don’t see AAA title flooding mac market. Metal API is not fully working on Windows just yet.
Disconnect and continue to use.
oh wait, macOS wont work under permanent offline environment anymore.
You don’t need security updates to function. Mac will still work online.
It ... depends?
If serious security bugs are discovered in the future, it might not be safe to expose the system to a network.
Well, the big one is Parallels w/ Windows 10. Occasionally, I need to jump into Windows for some Excel add-ons, etc.
Proper Windows 10 and not the ARM version (that technically isn't authorized to run on Macs anyways). The hope is that eventually the ARM version will become more mainstream/widely compatible, not to mention authorized for Mac use.
Ye but common narrative is if the system is no longer receiving security update, it is not safe anymore. With That being said, even windows 2000 could be used today online lmao.
Passkey is the one feature I would have cared about and would have purchased a new Mac. I'm riding with my 2018 Mini until it's no longer getting security updates. I've been a light user the last 10 yrs so my current mini is more than enough.