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macOS Monterey: Here Are All the Features Your Intel Mac Won't Support
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Yea that. My 18 core iMac Pro still has two more years of AppleCare left. Text to speech is integral to the workflow of way many handicapped users. Don’t even want to think of the class action that would result if Apple suddenly abandoned us. That’s ok, thanks to APFS Snapshots, I can immediately revert to Big Sur in a couple minutes (as long as I do so within 24 hours).
I'm guessing you've not spent many years in the Beta program. Apple does stuff like this all the time.
If my memory serves me correctly Global View is an old feature that disappeared around 2017. Since I travel a lot I always enjoyed using it to see where it was dark and light on Earth. Not surprising from Apple, trying to make an old discarded feature new again, kind of like MagSafe. Only I won't be able to use it on my extremely expensive late 2019 MBP 8/64.
Which must be why Apple is in Chapter 11 and the stock is worthless… Oh wait!
If that's how you really feel, your Windows clown car awaits.
Seriously, Apple has looked to the future for the 40+ years that I've been paying attention. They have certainly made many mistakes along the way (the Mac III) but the worst years were during the Scully era when the company was trying to figure out what consumers wanted and then cater to those perceived needs.
“This is a unique period in the Mac's history, as Apple is currently in the midst of a two-year transition from Intel processors to its custom Apple silicon chips in Macs, with the changeover slated to be completed by WWDC 2022.”
I wish you guys would stop repeating this patent lie. At WWDC 2020, Apple said the transition would take 2 years. That absolutely did NOT mean “two years from the moment you hear me say this.” The transition obviously began with the release of the 1st M1 Macs. I know you want to keep repeating this tripe because you’ve already got your “missed their target“ articles planned. But it’s dishonest.
I wish you guys would stop repeating this patent lie. At WWDC 2020, Apple said the transition would take 2 years. That absolutely did NOT mean “two years from the moment you hear me say this.” The transition obviously began with the release of the 1st M1 Macs. I know you want to keep repeating this tripe because you’ve already got your “missed their target“ articles planned. But it’s dishonest.
It will be supported for years to come. In their transition announcement, they spelled out in great detail how much more powerful the new chips would be. You really had no excuse for thinking Apple would feel somehow obligated to withhold features the new chips would be capable of, after crowing that the new chips would enable new things.
Same here. I spent 3,000 on a MBP in 2020 and don’t understand why apple isn’t being more supportive in the transition
Perhaps, but the reference to “All Apple Silicon Macs support Object Capture, but it is only supported on Intel Macs that have at least 16GB of RAM and 4GB of VRAM” and the fact that dictation is enabled, but limited to 60 seconds makes it seem more to me like they probably tested and enabled the new features on Intel only when they felt the performance was acceptable. Otherwise, why even bother with these two exceptions when it would give you two more reasons to upgrade?
My i7 Mac mini is currently on sale and highest priced in the range, yet will have fewer OS features than the lower priced M1 mini. It makes me wonder how quickly Intel users will be abandoned once the transition is complete.
Just download google earth instead and you can get all the map features anyway - long before Apple even integrated them!!
Windows 11 on a Mac?? OMG seriously??? It would be the greatest sin ever!!! Although I do have to admit the new Windows 11 does kind of have that Mac look about it with the new "centered" start bar... hmmm... I wonder where they borrowed that idea from??? I wonder when they're going to get round to moving the close/minimize buttons over to the left (although tbh that should be a user preference as to which side they have close/minimize on - I suppose it's like wiper/headlight controls on a car - some have wipers on left, headlights on right, others have it the other way round - and some, like my Merc, are super awesome and managed to fit them all on one stalk!).
I bought the 16" i9 Macbook Pro last month.
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<<also laughs in Hazel, Keyboard Maestro, Screenflow, Omnifocus>>
because I can.
if the investment reduces work load and time on monitor, they will as they always have. for pros, this is not emotional it is roi
My 2017 did the same thing in 2020. I had applecare so Apple replaced all of the guts and made it new again. 1 month later I traded it in for the m1 Air. A win for me.
Object Capture is all I care about from this list personally, thankfully I've got 24GB of RAM in my 27" iMac
Don’t know why interactive maps and more detailed cities are not supported on intel.
I don't have a real use for it anymore, it's just particularly interesting to me. A business partner and I were exploring product listings with AR views, and the announcement of Object Capture was a better option than what we were planning. Similar process, a bunch of photos taken on turntable, but AR object is a better experience than a 360 spin. We moved on from working on this project however, hence no real use anymore.
Apple doesn't need to play these games. Bugs are bugs, but they don't release products that aren't ready. A number of the listed features heavily rely on custom M1 silicon features, and that is the whole point behind this transition. (Not away from Intel but toward a more fully controlled stack. Just listen to the recent interview about M1 Pro/Max.
It would take significant effort to coax Intel chips to do the things that Apple Silicon does effortlessly (because they were designed for the purpose), why should they make the significant effort for hardware they are replacing?
Well, the other side of the coin is that these new features probably target the machine language of the neural network hardware. It COULD be ported to Intel, sure, but the performance wouldn’t necessarily be the same, and it would take time to port the code from Apple Silicon to Intel, then there’s the additional maintenance overload of supporting both architectures (bug fixes, QA testing, continuous integration, etc.). It’s not an unrealistic decision just to abandon the old platform for some subset of new features, especially with Apple’s yearly release cycle.
Just why do you expect computer manufactures to continue supporting machines after 5 years? At least Apple does support devices for 5+ years, have you looked up what qualifies for Windows 11?
"The processor requirement is the most restrictive; supported processors include 8th-generation and newer Intel Core processors as well as AMD Ryzen 2000-series processors and newer. These are all chips that launched in late 2017 and early 2018. Older computers can’t officially run Windows 11."
"Microsoft’s hardware changes also arrive just weeks after Apple announced macOS Monterey, with support for Mac Pros sold in late 2013 and beyond, and Mac Minis sold from late 2014 onward. Apple obviously doesn’t have to support a massive range of hardware configurations like Microsoft does, but the latest version of macOS will still run on systems that are eight years old. Microsoft’s changes mean that some PCs that are only three years old will be excluded from the Windows 11 upgrade."
When a new device is released with new hardware features, do you expect a manufacturer to recall all of their old hardware and upgrade it for free? That is what you are suggesting happen when you complain about features supported by the Neural Engine. Yeah it sucks, new hardware has new exclusive features, if those features are important to you, buy one.
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It's actually a money-saver. All the new features will likely call libraries that use M1 hardware. You'd have to write custom libraries that use Intel hardware in order for the new features to work, and they'd either be 10x slower or take 10x as long to write.