OpenAI's ChatGPT App for Mac Now Available to All Users

[Dark_Omen]

INTEL USERS SCREWED. Only for M chips.

Nobody is stopping you from buying an M series Mac.

Join the peeps on the other side of the fence. It's better over here... No lag and way better battery life.

 

[nawk]

The terrible cut-and-paste from all MS Office apps is driving me crazy. You copy text from Word or Outlook and it will paste as an image into app. This is very frustrating.

 

[FloatingBones]

As long as ChatGPT and their ilk are profit-driven companies, they are part of this capitalist parasites. They are taking public (and privately held) knowledge and profiting from it without any compensation. It doesn't matter if they give a slice of the pie away or not.

I don't care what happened for thousands of years. Non-profit 501.c3 or nothing.

MacRumors isn't a 501.c3. They are taking opinions like yours and mine and profiting from it -- without any compensation to you or me. Yet you participate here. Have you considered doing a "or nothing" on these forums?

 

[Jdhommert]

Can you use this app without giving it access to everything on your Mac, or creating an account and letting it harvest all your data?

If not I think I'll just use the site...which I've honestly only used once I think lol...I should put it up in the bookmarks bar to remind me to use it here and there

 

[SoldOnApple]

I manually downloaded it and have been using it for a while. It works great. But I miss one feature from MacGPT, which is it automatically breaks the post character limit and stitches them together visually. So if you copy and paste something in that would take up three posts, it makes it appear as if it were one. And if Chat replies over four posts, it'll make it appear as if it were a single post.

 

[subjonas]

As long as ChatGPT and their ilk are profit-driven companies, they are part of this capitalist parasites. They are taking public (and privately held) knowledge and profiting from it without any compensation. It doesn't matter if they give a slice of the pie away or not.

I don't care what happened for thousands of years. Non-profit 501.c3 or nothing.

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What is “I don’t care what happened for thousands of years” referring to?

 

[ThunderSkunk]

"*The desktop app is only available for macOS 14+ with Apple Silicon (M1 or better)"

That's kind of a shame though.

It's because the hardware has to be super powerful to send the text message up to the server, so wimpy Intel Macs can't handle it.

*reboots into windows via bootcamp*
Well would ya look at that...

 

[subjonas]

yeah, im not trusting openai to install this to my everyday mac. thanks. they are so creepy from their ceo to their executives. i have my own local llm app that developed by me and serves only me.

Why do you tease us?!

 

[dontwalkhand]

Has anyone asked ChatGPT what it thinks of Siri ?

Underwhelming response.

 

[idktbh]

🥱 gpt4all + uncensored local free models

 

[johnnytravels]

I wonder how OpenAI got past the DMA regulations? /s

 

[zakarhino]

The desktop app is lacking because you can't open multiple windows to see multiple chats at once. Plus Claude 3.5 Sonnet crushes GPT 4o anyway, both the LLM and the product experience.

 

[staypuftforums]

I’ve been using ChatGPT on my iPhone and iPad, and it’s fantastic. I get all the information I need in seconds. I haven’t used the desktop version as much since it’s online, but I’m impressed with the mobile experience. There are no ads to interrupt, making it a smooth and efficient tool. However, I wonder how long this will last before monetization comes into play. If advertisers notice reduced traffic due to ChatGPT, we might see some changes. So, I suggest enjoying this ad-free experience while it lasts.

I’ve noticed AI still can’t manage simple questions, like telling me how many days until a certain date in the future. It ALWAYS gets it wrong, and usually by several months.

 

[steve09090]

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Underwhelming response.

Looks pretty accurate to me.

 

[staypuftforums]

Nobody is stopping you from buying an M series Mac.

Join the peeps on the other side of the fence. It's better over here... No lag and way better battery life.

My iMac has perfectly fine battery life, thanks.

 

[beanbaguk]

I've been using it for months now, and it's part of my daily workflow. ChatGPT allows me to work twice as fast and deliver more accurate and better quality results.

Those who dismiss it, don't know how to use it.

 

[Schiappablanca]

Anyone know if it still only works on M-chip Macs?

Unfortunately, it only works on Apple Silicon Macs. Frankly, I don't understand this limitation.

 

[Moriakum]

I don’t understand why it’s M-chip only but MacGPT works great on my Intel Mac, so all is good.

 

[cgs1xx]

No, thank you.

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

Don't see any benefit of this app.

 

[Onelifenofear]

Nobody is stopping you from buying an M series Mac.

Join the peeps on the other side of the fence. It's better over here... No lag and way better battery life.

Desktop Mac Pro with GPU still faster than Apple Silicon... may well change with M4 Max/Ultra

No lag and no battery.

It's just odd - no reason they couldn't it's a simple Xcode thing.

 

[svish]

Good to hear about this. Will be downloading it to my Macs soon.

 

[uacd]

I just use web version of Poe from Quora when I need it. Don’t really see any reason to install app, Firefox works like a charm. And I don’t need to update to Ventura for that. I mean I can but don’t want to, Mac runs perfectly well with Monterey for now

 

[uacd]

Desktop Mac Pro with GPU still faster than Apple Silicon... may well change with M4 Max/Ultra

No lag and no battery.

It's just odd - no reason they couldn't it's a simple Xcode thing.

Macbook is nice for travel tho. I also have old desktop iMac that can still do anything I would probably want (including AI chatbots, web versions). I will probably buy new mac mini some day in the future, but right now I am more than pleased with the portability of my MBA M1. Would have liked bigger 15 inch version but I am not inclined to sell my perfectly working device just for that

 

[peterharte]

Pfft. Another Mac app without the ability to remove the Menu bar icon? No thanks. Apple needs to make an option to block all of these annoying menu bar icons so we can ditch these silly menubar apps like Bartender.

Use Bartender!