It's really just a PiP iPhone to Mac AirPlay and already in some form available for developers for a long time
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Here Are the macOS Sequoia Features Intel Macs Don't Support
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Hmm yeh iMacs are in a funny place at the moment, hopefully next month we get an update.
No, it is not. Intel Macs with GPUs that have 8-16 GB VRAM can run this "AI". You just need RAM and VRAM and some CPU threads, and Intel Mac have that (except for RAM maybe). You can run llama and other models locally successfully. On Windows you can even compile "drivers" for your AMD card if it is not supported by the software that runs the models natively. It is easy, there is no magic or hard to do stuff there. I know, because I use llama daily on Intel Mac.
The problem with macOS is that Apple is not willing to write native code to support AI, and it is closed source so there is no AI for Intel Macs. The processor is not the most important thing here, it is RAM and GPU computing power.
Man, I forgot Intel Macs even exist. There must be millions of them out there being used every day.
I find comments like yours hilarious Apples implementation of AI is mostly just giving users helpful features. You are speaking about it like it’s some nefarious stuff to avoid at all cost
I use mine daily and it's a wonderful machine still. I just have no idea why Apple would include apps that don't function with this update. iPhone Mirroring is not supported on 2019 Intel iMacs, but the App is installed anyways...
As long as I can disable it, I don't care. But Apple... being Apple, this will be only partially successful just like Siri. I'd just like to properly delete the [cough][cough] features that I don't want and will never use. Come on Apple, let those of us who don't want these new-fangled features to nuke them.
And people said at one time we didn’t need cars, trains, planes at one point now we use them daily. AI is the future, no stopping it, because humanity took that path long time ago when computers and internet became a thing. Humanity would be better off without the internet probably
Yeah Macs last a long time. It was only last year when I retired my iMac Late 2013 running Catalina. The software was just getting too old for the new stuff like Ai Photo and Video work.
Apple sold the Intel Mac Pro until 2023 so they *should* have Intel build releases until 2028 to avoid potential litigation. The Dual Processor G5 owners got screwed hard, they released with 10.5 Leopard and never got a single OS update. Hopefully Apple won't cut off the Intel Mac Pro's too soon.
The useful parts of "AI" are the features that we already had before that are now just labelled "AI" to attract investing suckers, like Machine Learning, LLM, and simulation. Energy devouring garbage like Chat GPT will lose popularity when more realise they're not a search engine.
Which explains why Apple Stores across the world are unionizing en masse - because they're happy with the work environment Cook has created
i wish they would remove the arbitrary T2 limitation for phone mirroring. If a windows 95 machine could do remote desktop on 25 year old hardware, there is no crazy hardware required to show a phone screen on your desktop.
Here's a list of Sequoia features that PowerPC Macs, or Motorola 68*** Macs won't support:
All of them.
The last Intel Mac was discontinued in 2019 (that's 50 years in computer lifespans). Get over it and upgrade if you want those features. Or join a Mac User Group and do without them.
All of them.
The last Intel Mac was discontinued in 2019 (that's 50 years in computer lifespans). Get over it and upgrade if you want those features. Or join a Mac User Group and do without them.
You're proving my point.
People who wants the maximum of features and hardware for the minimum of money, is exactly the kind of customer Cook doesn't care about. It's a type of customer Apple doesn't want.
The same with someone who wants to buy a $200 Android phone.
And for customers who care about specific hardware specifications.
You're not a desirable customer in Apple's point of view and I agree. You would be much happier with a PC and an Android phone.
Honestly, the same can be said about any macOS releases post Catalina. Mostly pointless feature bloat and superfluous garbage tacked onto an increasingly buggy OS.
Bit astounding people still download these extended public beta releases on day 1.
Did you update to Sequoia yet? I have a 2018 Mini as well. Not a fan of Sonoma as Safari is worse with websites like facebook. Hoping this release fixes some of that but not hopeful. I just don't want more issues
Questions about 2 factor authentication.
Is it really needed if my computer is home and I don't use iCloud?
If it is activated on the computer will my iPhone automatically get 2 factor as well? I don't want to be somewhere needing to use the iPhone as a GPS (which is all I use it for) and not be able to access the 2 factor.
What exactly is the 2 factor authentication? Does it send a code to a phone or email?
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Is it really needed if my computer is home and I don't use iCloud?
If it is activated on the computer will my iPhone automatically get 2 factor as well? I don't want to be somewhere needing to use the iPhone as a GPS (which is all I use it for) and not be able to access the 2 factor.
What exactly is the 2 factor authentication? Does it send a code to a phone or email?
Thanks
iMac 2019 here - no big loss on the feature restrictions.
Apple has the user data - they know they can’t cut the Intel cord completely for a long time yet without a public backlash.
The only reason Rosetta was taken out of Lion was because of IBM not wanting to license the tech to Apple after their contract with them expired. At the time, Apple itself or someone in Apple said that they did not want to stop including it but it was out of their hands. Apple made Rosetta 2 themselves and learned from that past mistake of relying on a third party for such important code.