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Several macOS Monterey Features Unavailable on Intel-Based Macs
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It is in Apple's interest to get as many of Mac users over to the new architecture as soon as possible.
Intel Macs should get minimum support which includes:
* Security fixes
* Bug fixing
* New version of the OS (for a few more years)
* New features on the conditions it costs Apple very little resources to implement, support and that the feature works well
Intel Macs are getting the minimum support today.
Mac Pros obviously don't need to look at 'plaything' 3D maps because they are meant for work!
That is what has been causing me so much issue with this. It appears online that my store is open by appointment. I chat in and ask if I can order my MacBook online and specify what I’m trading in and then bring it with me and pay the difference. I’m told by a few reps no the store isn’t accepting Mac trade ins and others saying yes they are and to just make a shopping appointment and purchase the MacBook in person and bring the trade as well as my work badge (we get a small discount).
If Apple would stop selling these, then I'd agree. As long as these are sold from Apple then I guess this isn't the right approach.
The latter part of your post is what I would do. Make a shopping appointment and bring your trade-in with you.
They also said Intel-Macs would be supported for years.
This is the type of subterfuge that all of us who experienced the powerpc > intel transition firsthand have been warning about.
The 3D globe is probably using some of the AR acceleration features of the Apple Silicon chips, as is the more detailed maps. The other stuff is definitely running on the M1’s machine learning accelerator and image processing accelerator. This is likely stuff that theoretically could be done on x86-64, but it would peg multiple cores and be terribly inefficient. And Apple’s general purpose CPU cores are more powerful than Intel’s anyway, so even the recent low end Intel CPUs used in the base model Macs might not be able to do these in real-time, let alone older generation supported Intel Macs.
I don’t exactly care about updating macOS anytime soon but there is book of minor features both are getting with the m1 getting just a few more. I’m not sure what the gripe is if one chip offers the ability to add a few additional that the other cant really do as well or at all.
Apple also added a feature good only on macs with at least 16gb ram. Something to do with AR. Should the 8gb users all protest? This is merely how things will go forward with two different type chips.
Apple also added a feature good only on macs with at least 16gb ram. Something to do with AR. Should the 8gb users all protest? This is merely how things will go forward with two different type chips.
It's the beginning of the end of an era. I'm reminded of how when the PowerPC-to-Intel transition occurred in 2006, the next Mac OS X version to come out the following year, 10.5 Leopard, was universal and could run on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. But iLife '08 and '09 both had some features that required Intel Macs (like working with AVCHD video, or GarageBand's "Learn To Play" interactive lessons). And of course in 2009, about three years after the Intel transition was complete, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard came out as the first Intel-only version of the OS.
But I'm glad I sprung for an M1 MacBook Air when I was ready to buy a new Mac laptop that could run Mac OS 11 Big Sur, after hearing how they were way more fast and powerful than their Intel predecessors, and how they cost less than the 13" Intel MacBook Pros still on the market at the time (the Mac laptop type I was initially eyeing, as I was waiting to eventually get a more beefed-up "M1X" Mac Mini or whatever as my first Apple Silicon Mac to replace my 2012 i7 Mini), and because Intel Mac support would be dwindling and Apple Silicon Mac support would be increasing. And once I saw I could even run a Windows XP virtual machine on UTM for running old PC games on the M1 Macs, I was sold (especially because at next year's Anthro New England I may be hosting a panel about 1990s PC games for kids and may demonstrate several such games for them.) So at least I'll still have a Mac that can run Mac OS 12 Monterey with all the features available (not that I'll really use most of them; I'm a little too old-school for them.) And then some time next year I'll still get a new Apple Silicon Mac desktop to replace said 2012 Mini (either the aforementioned "M1X" Mac Mini or the rumored Mac Pro Cube). But I'll still want to keep the 2012 i7 Mac Mini for my collection of older Macs!
But I'm glad I sprung for an M1 MacBook Air when I was ready to buy a new Mac laptop that could run Mac OS 11 Big Sur, after hearing how they were way more fast and powerful than their Intel predecessors, and how they cost less than the 13" Intel MacBook Pros still on the market at the time (the Mac laptop type I was initially eyeing, as I was waiting to eventually get a more beefed-up "M1X" Mac Mini or whatever as my first Apple Silicon Mac to replace my 2012 i7 Mini), and because Intel Mac support would be dwindling and Apple Silicon Mac support would be increasing. And once I saw I could even run a Windows XP virtual machine on UTM for running old PC games on the M1 Macs, I was sold (especially because at next year's Anthro New England I may be hosting a panel about 1990s PC games for kids and may demonstrate several such games for them.) So at least I'll still have a Mac that can run Mac OS 12 Monterey with all the features available (not that I'll really use most of them; I'm a little too old-school for them.) And then some time next year I'll still get a new Apple Silicon Mac desktop to replace said 2012 Mini (either the aforementioned "M1X" Mac Mini or the rumored Mac Pro Cube). But I'll still want to keep the 2012 i7 Mac Mini for my collection of older Macs!
The whole point of this website is for “enthusiasts” to forecast what “might” be coming from Apple. If not, there is no reason for any of us to be here. Apple Silicon is the future, Intel is not. Apple is still trying to provide some continuity for users, but they aren’t reversing course. Anyone not grasping this truth is being willfully ignorant of reality.
Most of the angst about the missing features in Monterrey has more to do with people who are still in a state of denial that Apple is dropping Intel and moving on to Apple Silicon. Even if Apple
does update the Mac Pro with Ice Lake-W CPUs and/or AMD 6000-Series GPUs, that is realistically the only Intel-based Mac that is going to get
updated despite what anyone here might think. Once the 14”/16” MBP and larger iMac debut with M2 CPUs, that’s it, Apple’s done with the transition in their minds. Mission accomplished. The Mac Pro is the outlier right now and will be for a few years. The rest of the models being on AS represent 98% of the Mac user base.
If you’re still thinking Apple is going to introduce Intel updates to the larger iMac or the 16” MacBook Pro, just stop. Accept that Apple is not going to move to AMD or reverse their decision to drop Intel and either get on the AS bandwagon or start picking out a Windows-based system. The future is clear.
does update the Mac Pro with Ice Lake-W CPUs and/or AMD 6000-Series GPUs, that is realistically the only Intel-based Mac that is going to get
updated despite what anyone here might think. Once the 14”/16” MBP and larger iMac debut with M2 CPUs, that’s it, Apple’s done with the transition in their minds. Mission accomplished. The Mac Pro is the outlier right now and will be for a few years. The rest of the models being on AS represent 98% of the Mac user base.
If you’re still thinking Apple is going to introduce Intel updates to the larger iMac or the 16” MacBook Pro, just stop. Accept that Apple is not going to move to AMD or reverse their decision to drop Intel and either get on the AS bandwagon or start picking out a Windows-based system. The future is clear.
I mean, that sure is a polite way of telling you that you’re categorically wrong.
If I wrote the site and thought I could get away with it, my error message would probably be a bit more blunt. </tongue-in-cheek>MacRumors: Complains that Apple doesn’t offer new features that privilege the M1 chip on the new iPad Pro.
Also MacRumors: Complains when Apple implements new macOS features that depend on the M1 and would be impossible (or at least highly inefficient) to run on an Intel Mac.
Right, vague, basically impossible to interpret. Let’s see if we can decipher this absolute brain buster. The article is called “Several macOS Monterey Features Unavailable on Intel-Based Macs”. So I wonder what I could be referring to. It would help if there was an extremely common critique of Apple related to devices and access to newer features. Hmmmm. 🤔
We will see…specially when new versions of my programs require newer macOS versions (that require new hardware )and won’t support any longer older versions. No idea what OCR snapshots are, but I guess you know what you use.
You seem to have completely missed my point.
My joke was that folks around here always say they are sticking with old versions of the OS (for … reasons).
Then, when the new OS has some new feature (“OCR snapshots” means “perform optical character recognition on snapshots [e.g. photographs]“), suddenly it’s super important to these same people that the new OS works on their old hardware.
Given the beta, and that coding is happening on x86 Macs, it's more likely this is just the framework and not the complete or finished product.
I think what will go into that framework is all the more compelling.