Of course they COULD support those features on Intel macs, and I have an Intel Mac, but I am not complaining one bit. Why? Because, if it were my company, I wouldn’t want to devote extra software engineering resources to supporting new features on a platform that isn’t long for this world. Existing features and security updates sure, but new stuff (especially machine learning and graphics-intensive tasks) wouldn’t make sense to develop.
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macOS Monterey: Here Are All the Features Your Intel Mac Won't Support
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The title of the article sounds like shaming those who have Intel Macs.
Instead of saying what M1 mac only features. ?
Feels like MTV cribs: Britney Spears: Now I am going in my pink helicopter and we’re gonna fly to my house…
Macrumors:
I am sitting here thinking: OMG the shame!!! I’ll never have an M1 mac and a helicopter!!!
???
Instead of saying what M1 mac only features. ?
Feels like MTV cribs: Britney Spears: Now I am going in my pink helicopter and we’re gonna fly to my house…
Macrumors:
Here Are All the Features Your Intel Mac Won't Support
I am sitting here thinking: OMG the shame!!! I’ll never have an M1 mac and a helicopter!!!
???
I would still start the planning process of buying a new Apple Silicon Mac though within next two years. Most likely Apple will drop support for Intel Macs from macOS within two to three years, earlier than scheduled to keep up with development pace.Hello! I just bought a Mac last year!Actually, not bothered by the things that won't run
Like Jobs said, technology moves fast.
Yeah, I'll keep the ability to run x86 VMs, thank you.
It definitely must be a bitter pill for those who spent considerable amounts of money on Intel based Apple products Recently. Especially loaded up MBPs, iMacs, and MacPros. I don’t understand, however, why unless you absolutely needed to, anyone would have purchased an Intel Mac last year following the release of the M1 Macs. The writing was on the wall this would happen. Of course there would be features limited to the M1 architecture. Still, I can empathize with those who won’t get certain features with sub 18 month old Intel Macs.
I am hoping Apple will offer a M1 card to swap out the Intel chip on the Pro Mac - we all cannot junk these $10,000 machines.
Honestly, I doubt anyone who bought a machine of this caliber seriously misses the ability to spin a globe in Maps (or if they do, they can just browse to Google Earth).
VMWare is available free of charge now - just register on their site and you get a single user licence for $/£0…I just downloaded that and can run Win10 on my Mac, hooked up to a 4K screen.
VMWare Fusion also runs Win11 without problems if you add a virtual TPM device to the VM (at least the Pro version does, but the free version should too).
My 16" shows Nov 3-5 on Apple's site but I checked in the UPS app and it shows a package coming from AI on Oct 26. Still no update on the Apple Store (still preparing to ship). Apple appears to be underpromising and overdelivering when it comes to shipping times.
All business/corporate stuff, with some home grown.
But no way to run x86 Windows, and Windows on Arm doesn't run everything either, nor license compliant.
If someone was to come out with a decent x86 emulation package, and/or Microsoft decides to license WoA to us normal people, I probably will think about upgrading. I was almost ready to pull the trigger with an M1 Max, but then remembered.
Mine was about 2 months past its 3rd anniversery, so I didn't even bother talking to Apple about it.
That's a good combo! I liked my MBP a lot, it's quite a capable machine. And I have available machines too, my desktop's a Windows beast, and my intel Mac Mini covers everything MacOS.
I'll trade these features for Bootcamp and full Windows support. This 16 inch intel machine still is pretty good, even if it runs hot and a tad bit noisy. Should work for a few more years I think.
Been awhile since that was discovered. Very likely Apple was investigating bringing it to Intel Macs but it got cut. I have to assume it was not running well on older supported hardware. Easier to just put in if (intel) then disable then it is to say if Intel and some GPU then ok. I fully understand, as a developer, why Apple would do this.
For those actually do serious work, they may not even bother upgrading to windows 11. Not on day 1, not after 4 years. I have seen so many machines still running windows 7 or even windows XP with their supported software today, off the internet or whatever. RDP also allows critical software to be installed and run on central server, eliminating client based update management. After 3 or 4 years, PC with those TPM and stuff will become more common, and windows 11 upgrade will not be a serious issue by then, similar to windows vista, but without the hiccup.
Besides, Microsoft doesn’t really enforce some of those security features on custom builds and/or upgrades after backlash, meaning many more can still run windows 11 without much issue, as long as they know what they are doing.
Well then. Enjoy your pristine and sacred Apple ecosystem while accepting all of its flaws as if they never existed.