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These macOS Sonoma Features Are Not Available on Intel Macs
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That's an interesting view. I too am surprised the "Siri" is not available on Intel and only "Hey Siri". Odd. Maybe "Siri" requires mind-reading capabilities and the Intel chip doesn't have it. LOL LOL.
Work a second job at Kinko's or something on the weekend and get one. Totally worth the cost, time savings, and effort. It changed my idea of a computer and upgrading has made me money from the time saved!
Haha, I’m basically rebuilding dashboard on my Sonoma beta. Putting all the widgets I want on my desktop, and anytime I want to view them all I just flick all my apps out of the way.
When I buy a Mac for the price of a decent used car, I do so with the intention to use it for 5-6 years. This whole "the thing you bought last year is obsolete because the new one came out" is what drives e-waste and pollution, and incentivizes companies to make their products less repairable (since you want to buy a new one anyway). If customers expect the product to last, then companies eventually have to build them to last.
Isn't it funny that the latest macOS features are 2006 Stage Manager and 2004 Widgets? Soon they will recover iTunes and iSync, which I used with the Sony Ericsson T610, but for syncing Vision.
I'm not the OP but I use the Nord Modular editor with an ancient version of the OSX. Every so often I tell myself I'm going to look into what prevents it from running on a more modern OS version but I never get around to it.
Isn't this like everything? This release when they talk about new wallpapers being a thing to promote means there's nothing else worth talking about. It's like when they released Windows 98 and they were rabbiting on about 4K boundary nonsense being a promoted feature. I mean, hello?
I am sure Intel CPU can't handle the change from Hey Siri to Siri. /s
This is like when new weather animations were not available on iPhone X because the CPU cannot handle it lmao.
This is like when new weather animations were not available on iPhone X because the CPU cannot handle it lmao.
Well at least they didn't pull the rug out yet like they did to us G5 users and Mac Pro 1,1 users 
Apple always hated how the third party market sold cheap storage and cheap RAM in the Intel days so they tried to cut that off as best as they could. Apple Silicon is a godsend to Apple as all those dollars now go to Apple's bottom line as they now finally keep the third party market out.
pretty good outcome I feel as an Intel Mac owner. Nothing too major I feel is being missed. I thought there’d be a lot more gaps, or more significant ones, following some of the missed capabilities last year such as some missing features in the Maps app.
Still rocking with a Mac Mini 2012 running Mojave. Some of my friends are still on High Sierra.
In saying that does anybody say "Siri" or even "Hey Siri"? I'm just saying that I'm not saying it.
Sonoma requires basically 2018 Macs. Figure next year's release will bump to 2019, and then the 2025 release will be M1 only. That means that folks who want guaranteed OS support and complete security fixes have until sometime in late 2025 or early 2026 before they'll need to be on a M1 machine (Apple only guarantees fixes for the current OS). Practically speaking though, the do backport most fixes, so it's 2026 or 2027 for the true end-of-intel life. Open question if they'll do 'extended support' for the last intel release, but I suspect not.
I expect the M1 machines to have much longer support though. At least so far, the innovation is in the scale of the SOC, not features, so they should last longer.
Monterey rocks on my 2012 Mini. It could have been designed for this system.Still rocking with a Mac Mini 2012 running Mojave. Some of my friends are still on High Sierra.
Makes perfect sense that my 16 thread i9 with 64GB RAM can’t listen for “Siri” instead of “Hey Siri”
Timmy’s Apple.
Timmy’s Apple.
As a 2018 intel mac mini owner, I’m happy with the gap. That said, Ventura sure did slow down my machine, I actually have to wait for stuff sometimes. I’m one of those who hangs on to my computer for at least 5 years so.. doh, this December I might start scoping stuff out. Probably 2024 or 2025.
It begins...
Now that all Macs are Silicon, those of us with any Intel Macs face numbered days even if there was still an Intel Mac for sale only 1 day ago.
Rosetta 2 is almost certainly on the same clock. See Rosetta 1 deprecation as a guide.
The many apps still needing to "throw that one switch and recompile for silicon"
Suggestion: anything mission critical means keeping an "old Mac" running an old macOS around. I still have a Snow Leopard Mac for a few key things that never "threw the switch."
The single most important program I need for work is the one and only Intel app still running on my Mac. They’ve been “considering their options concerning Apple Silicon” for two years now.
Yep. For all I do my 2019 16" MacBook Pro is more then sufficient and I don't really plan to replace it anytime soon as I enjoy how thin it is compared to the new 16" MBP. I enjoy the screen size too but was waiting for the 15" MBA. Even though it would "blow" my MBP out of the water I was very underwhelmed with it from what I saw yesterday. Price is nice though but I am going to keep rocking this intel for a bit longer. 14" pro isn't off the table but again don't really have a reason to replace yet.
I as well was there from PowerPC to Intel but I mean come on you literally sold a 5 thousand dollar plus intel machine till yesterday.
eMac/Lamp iMac/15" powerbook ..
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Again, IMO, there's only one real choice here: old fashioned bootcamp (get a PC (too)).
Windows ARM has potential to cover some bases. Virtual Windows "as a service" options exist for lite users willing to pay per use and/or subscribe. But the practical option that really doesn't cost much money is a dedicated Windows PC. I bought my first one in about 15-16 years and am pleasantly surprised. Those of us long accustomed to Apple pricing (for "another record quarter of revenue & profit") may have forgotten that the ability to shop around for RAM and SSD means competitor driven (LOW) prices... and the PC industry is also insanely competitive such that there's probably nobody there with Apple's big fat margin.
So take a budget for about HALF of a "loaded Mac" and go shopping. That budget will buy a LOT of PC.
The big question now for the practical computer buyer who wants both is what combo: Mac desktop + Windows laptop or vice versa, 2 laptops, 2 desktops. And if so, big tip from me is to choose a monitor with multiple inputs so that both can easily share the same screen, keyboard and mouse... which is quite doable.
For those where money is tighter, remember that the old Intel Mac that you might leave behind for Silicon can easily become a pretty up-to-date PC running at least Windows 10. So one could embrace Silicon as a next computer and convert the old Mac to being the Windows PC to cover that base too. When it conks, buy a new PC then.
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I actually would have some hope that these features would make their way to Intel too by fall. Apple also said last year that Live Text in Ventura would be Apple Silicon-exclusive at first but after the first or second update support was brought to Intel too, and it works perfectly well.