The first Apple processor, the M1, was introduced in November of 2020. That's 50 years ago in computer years. Intel holdouts should be happy that Apple is still supporting them at all.
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Here Are the macOS Sequoia Features Intel Macs Don't Support
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Unfamiliarity or just haven’t figured out how it would fit into their lives? I’m working with a fellow now transitioning a task I’ve done for a few years that’s not automated, not complex, just, every now and then, some files will be sent… copy them from where they’re delivered to, to another directory where they will be consumed. I figured this would take 30 minutes… “Here’s the from, here’s the to, copy from here to here when asked” done.
He’s unfamiliar with File Explorer and has never had to figure out copying between network file shares would fit into his daily work (primarily legal). I’ve had multiple hours training him on this task… will likely have additional hours of training before he’s comfortable with doing it without me around and he may never understand anything about the process other than the very specific use case presented to him. There are some things some folks just aren’t interested in.
This isn't the 1990s, consumer hardware doesn't advance as quickly anymore. Devices last, and are supported, A LOT longer than they used to be.
Same goes for phones.
So, I absolutely KNOW it’s not the same group of people, but it’s interesting to see a calm “AI, a feature I’ll never want and never use” not too long after the apoplectic “WHY won’t Apple support the Maps GLOBE view on Intel? Just forcing people to buy NEW computers!” 
I enjoyed watching Steve on stage with my trusty 2007 iMac.
He gave the impression of loving Apple and its products.
I would like to see a new CEO.
Agreed
Nothing personal against Tim
Some are just better at the public facing stuff
It all feels so forced and fake with Tim
He's just not an actual passionate product guy
Oh how I remember beachballs/pinwheels. That was Apple’s fault for being stingy with included RAM. Leopard could run on 1 Gig of RAM. Snow Leopard, not so much.
Here we are in 2024 (not 2007) and Macs start with 8 Gigs. You are stuck with that choice forever.
You assume a new CEO would be like Jobs, when there is an equal (or higher) opportunity for them to be like Balmer.
The devil you know.
Nothing I need. I am buying a 2019 Mac Pro. put apple silicon off for a few years. see where it goes.
So... never change?
That's not a great way to run things
It's completely foreclosing on the possibility of getting product oriented CEO that is better in many ways
I would hope for someone more like Steve Jobs.
Not sure how MacRumors feels about YouTube posts.
Search for "Steve Ballmer Going Crazy on Stage."
While I enjoyed my old Mac, I feel like I'll be stuck with Windows. I don't know anything about the Microsoft CEO.
I need a single device for everything. A MacBook Air is simply too expensive for me. I can get what I need from Dell for about $500.
I'm not saying it can't happen, I'm saying don't count on it.
Jobs was a once in a generation tech CEO.
Last year I upgraded from a 2020 iMac to an M4 MacBook Pro + Dual Studio Display. Very glad I did. I think people will be able to eke out several more years of intel before they are firmly in a niche legacy category but not necessarily suitable as the modern main driver.
Well, maybe - because the alternatives would be (a) don't support M1 Macs at all or (b) don't add any OS features that take advantage of M2/M3/M4/M5 Macs.
...but it's not inevitable - this time round, these "not on Intel" features are all "AI" related and probably rely on the Neural Engine in the M1 and later to work. Odds are they either won't run at all without the Neural Engine, or they won't run usably without the acceleration it provides.
Also, with Intel there was a far wider range of CPUs, GPUs, device controllers etc. in the Mac range - any of which might not be able to support new features, or give adequate performance, or who's manufacturers had dropped driver security updates, or which were present in too few in-use machines to warrant supporting.
With Apple Silicon, much more is included on the SoC itself, there are only 4 significant variants of the SoC per "generation" - all built from much the same building blocks, and all with drivers provided by Apple. The move to Apple Silicon has also probably cleaned out a lot of "dead wood" legacy apps that were using obsolete libraries. There should be less reasons for dropping support from M1 or later Macs in the future. The future will show much outright "planned obsolescence" is going on.
2020 M1 MacBook air has a neural engine specifically for "AI"-type applications. 2019 Mac Pro doesn't. The Mac Pro with a couple $20K professional GPUs is probably quite capable of "serious" AI work, but "Apple Intelligence" is written for Apple Silicon. I can image someone training models on a MP stuffed with AMD's finest GPUs and 1.5TB of RAM... and then testing them on an iPad Pro...
"Support" doesn't necessarily mean "new features". Even in non-US countries with stronger consumer rights, you're not entitled to any functionality that wasn't promised at the time of purchase. In those countries Apple needs to be able to offer repair/replacement for up to 5/6 years (which you can see reflected in their vintage/obsolete hardware policy) and while it doesn't necessarily apply directly to software, lack of a supported OS could be problematic for "repairs" so they need a supported OS (not necessarily the latest) for that period.
Anyhow, the clock for that only starts ticking after Apple stop selling the model - which is why the M1 Air (disc. March 2024) will probably get longer software support than the 2019 Mac Pro (disc June 2023)
Yes, but those were the good old days where they didn't try to push out a new macOS release every 12 months.
Also, Sequoia will only be the second MacOS released - and the first announced - after the last Intel Mac was discontinued.
Tiger: released April 2005; Leopard: October 2007; Snow Leopard: August 2009
...so PPC Macs got 3-4 years of running the latest OS.
We're now 3-4 years on from the launch of the first M1 Mac, but some Intel Macs - the Mac Pro and the high-end i7 Mac Mini were only replaced & dropped in 2023 - so they probably needed to get the ~3 years of support they'll have from Sequoia to see them through to "vintage" status.
C.f. the PPC to Intel transition, which was announced in 2005 and completed in Aug 2006 - only a year from soup to nuts. There were no current PPC Mac models by the time Leopard launched.
Jobs announced the iPhone half a year before it’s release. We’re half a year from 2025.
The reason they could do that is they didn't need to worry about cannibalising the sales of an existing Apple phone because there wasn't one.
The whole industry is scarred by what happened to Osbourne Computers. They pre-announced a new product way before it was shipping and it sank the whole company because people stopped buying the current product.
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Smaller, yes. It doesn’t load the extra assets on architecture it’s not running on, so that will be the only effect.
Because AI draws data from the Internet.. the same Internet that is populated with data by humans.. like you and me. It stands to reason that you and I can obtain the same data on our own and do with it what we wish. some people seem to think that using a machine equates to a superior outcome, but they fail to realize that machines lack emotions, feelings, and common sense. Mankind survived just fine without AI this long, we don’t need AI now. No machine will ever be as powerful as the human brain. The problem we need to tackle is laziness.
Lolz - not a fan of change?
In the future there will be two classes of people.
Those with AI and those without.
Let's slow a bit and see how it goes
It's very much an unknown where this tech will end up
Welcome to the future.
Humans today have writing and language.
We are super humans compared to our ancestors that didn’t have language.
In the future there will be those with AI and those without.
Those with AI will be the next super humans that will make humans today seem like cavemen/women.
I hope Rosetta keeps alive for a long time. I use it daily to run 1Password 6. I refuse to subscribe the newer versions (and there is zero new features worth it)It’s amazing they kept Rosetta alive this long. Unfortunately most of my Intel apps have some 32bit libraries. Wish we could compile missing 32bit libs like you can with Ubuntu, even on newer 64bit versions.
Because of this limitations I have to keep an Intel Mac mini around.