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macOS Monterey: Here Are All the Features Your Intel Mac Won't Support
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Yeah, **** Apple. No reason my 16 inch MBP can renderer Pixar level graphics but can't display a 3D globe or detailed maps. Seriously, **** them.
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in my experience zoom in and out in (google) maps is the easiest way to make the fans go full speed... with a 16" intel this could be the new apple drone
How can someone actually disagree with this?
Unlikely. Writing architecture specific code is a thing long gone in anything beyond compilers and kernels. At the application level where these things are at there is a API. True that Apple may have chosen not to implement the API on intel macs but that’d be surprising. They’d want the same base OS regardless of architecture so life is easier for developers, both internal and external to Apple.
This is a choice by Apple. And it really does feel like a business choice. The only argument I could really make is the battery life on intel macs might take a big hit using features that the neural engine is built for but that’s a pretty flimsy one as I see it.
There's never been a better time for Mac users to start transitioning away from their ancient Intel hardware.
Gotta sell my $20,000 MacPro then to get that globe in maps
Well apart from when actual useful/critical features stop working. But yeah, ok.
So, in United Sates with a 2017 Intel iMac, I’ll still be able to use text-to-speech and dictate like before?
"so expect the next version of macOS to exclude Intel-based Mac users to an even greater extent than Monterey."
Sad. I remember PowerPC macs being thrown to the curb by Apple SO DAMN QUICKLY it made your head spin. Hell they couldn't even be arsed with releasing Snow Leopard for PPC..
This time, if something similar happens, at least we can take refuge in Windows 11 land (albeit we need to modify the installation and all that, as Macs lack TPMs). Although it would still suck because you'd be missing out of so many nifty MacOS-features.
Sad. I remember PowerPC macs being thrown to the curb by Apple SO DAMN QUICKLY it made your head spin. Hell they couldn't even be arsed with releasing Snow Leopard for PPC..
This time, if something similar happens, at least we can take refuge in Windows 11 land (albeit we need to modify the installation and all that, as Macs lack TPMs). Although it would still suck because you'd be missing out of so many nifty MacOS-features.
For someone who bought a 2020 Intel MBP 13 in April that year, this seems petty from Apple.
I did, 2 in fact, one was an M1, and the other an Intel Mac Mini, and I use the Intel Mac Mini a lot more -- the exclusion of these features really doesn't bother me though, they're all pretty minor.
Even if the Mac Mini couldn't run the new OS at all, that still wouldn't bother me -- what works and does its job, still works and does its job!
You should read that as “those people believe there will not be a critical mass of people leaving their ecosystem permanently”, which is sadly the truth, and will continue to be one in the next decade or so.
Aren’t officially supported.
Here. Fixed for you.
What a money grab this is. If Google / Microsoft can figure out Air Drop, I'd be switching tomorrow.
Especially given that they're still selling Intel machines with no M-series equivalent!
This is kind of annoying. I have a top of the line iMac from last year that's still one of the fastest machines apple sell's, and it won't be able to do these tasks? It wouldn't be quite as annoying if Apple was atleast offering a fair trade in price on these machines, but they are literally only offering the max of 1500 for it.
Tell this to those people who bought $50k Mac Pro, and many more who bought thousands of dollars worth of 16” MacBook Pro.
Are you going to sponsor their transition to Apple silicon, including application support, financial support and more?
No, and that bothers me even less than these features. I use VM's, not bootcamp, and you can definitely run Win11 in a VM, and even license it, if you have an Intel Mac.
At least get the Ultra M1 Pro Max ][][+ - same great chip, but bigger and with another camera!
If you're dropping that kind of coin on hardware, the odds are great you can easily afford to transition to the all-new uber-performant Apple Silicon. Typically that total cost will be paid down within 1-3 production jobs/projects.
Or transition away from MacOS? That's more likely for me, but not because of these features -- not being able to run x86 Windows in a VM, that's a problem.
Windows+Intel is a match made in hell. Good luck if you make the switch though.
Well it's not like Apple can magically install a physical TPM chip on your systemboard, which was an original requirement for Windows 11.
Fortunately, Microsoft themselves have retreated on that front and you can now upgrade Windows 10 to Windows 11 on PCs that do not have a physical TPM chip via a registry edit.
As for myself, I bought a 2020 iMac 5K last month because I am now WFM permanently and my workflow is Windows-focused and BootCamp is very effective in supporting that. I did so in the full knowledge that future macOS releases are going to have functionality not supported on Intel hardware, which is why I have a 14" M1 Pro MacBook Pro arriving on Tuesday.