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These macOS Sonoma Features Are Not Available on Intel Macs
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So all the people who spent $50,000 last year thanks to Apple's absurd pricing on Mac Pros, they should get no more than 2 years of OS updates?
Are you related to Steve Jobs?
Why is unsurprising to see gaming benchmarks on Apple machines with ZERO context? How about posting the resolution and graphics settings? Power draw, heat.... high and low frame rates, etc?
That chart means nothing.
Interestingly Zoom and Teams can accomplish "Presenter Overlay" just fine on Intel chips.
Apple this week previewed macOS Sonoma, the latest version of its Mac operating system. Launching later this year, the software update includes several new features, but not all of them are available on Intel-based Macs, as noted by 9to5Mac.
On the macOS Sonoma features page, fine print indicates that the following features require a Mac with an Apple silicon chip:
Apple does not indicate why the features are not available on Intel Macs, but it likely relates to performance considerations, and only Apple silicon Macs have a Neural Engine for machine learning tasks. The last Intel Macs were released in 2020, and Apple has since moved to its own custom-designed processors. The transition to Apple silicon is now complete following this week's introduction of a new Mac Pro with the M2 Ultra chip.
- Presenter Overlay, a feature that displays the user on top of the content they are sharing in any video conferencing app.
- Game Mode, which prioritizes CPU and GPU performance while gaming by limiting the performance of background tasks.
- A new high-performance mode in the Screen Sharing app.
- The ability to pair Made for iPhone hearing devices directly with a Mac.
- The ability to invoke Siri by saying "Siri" instead of "Hey Siri."
macOS Sonoma will likely be released to the public in October and is compatible with Macs released in December 2017 and later.
Article Link: These macOS Sonoma Features Are Not Available on Intel Macs
Well, a big use for Rosetta 2 is to run x86 Docker images. Sonoma also adds the ability for Linux containers and virtual machines to run its x86 apps via Rosetta 2.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"had better get with it. I presume it is a very heavy switch... as it seemed to be the last time we went through this (and a number of apps- including prominent ones did not seem to be able to lift that switch before Rosetta 1 ended).
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 ability to invoke Siri by saying "Siri" instead of "Hey Siri."
Apple this week previewed macOS Sonoma, the latest version of its Mac operating system. Launching later this year, the software update includes several new features, but not all of them are available on Intel-based Macs, as noted by 9to5Mac.
On the macOS Sonoma features page, fine print indicates that the following features require a Mac with an Apple silicon chip:
Apple does not indicate why the features are not available on Intel Macs, but it likely relates to performance considerations, and only Apple silicon Macs have a Neural Engine for machine learning tasks. The last Intel Macs were released in 2020, and Apple has since moved to its own custom-designed processors. The transition to Apple silicon is now complete following this week's introduction of a new Mac Pro with the M2 Ultra chip.
- Presenter Overlay, a feature that displays the user on top of the content they are sharing in any video conferencing app.
- Game Mode, which prioritizes CPU and GPU performance while gaming by limiting the performance of background tasks.
- A new high-performance mode in the Screen Sharing app.
- The ability to pair Made for iPhone hearing devices directly with a Mac.
- The ability to invoke Siri by saying "Siri" instead of "Hey Siri."
macOS Sonoma will likely be released to the public in October and is compatible with Macs released in December 2017 and later.
Article Link: These macOS Sonoma Features Are Not Available on Intel Macs
Why is this? it's just going away with the "Hey"....
Clearly there is a great deal of ML involved with that specific feature, because while I was expecting a nightmare of false triggers with that specific function, so far I have found it impossible to trip it up by, for example, dropping the activation word into the middle of a sentence. It has turned out to be considerably more reliable than I expected, which implies that there is a lot more going on with computation than one might expect.
I wouldn't worry about it. Just saying "Siri" is a bit temperamental anyway; I've found it better to stick to saying "Hey Siri" on my phone.
(I don't have Siri or Hey Siri activated on my laptop.)
Yup, this is one of the things that the neural engine allows for on Apple silicon where the performance would t be acceptable on that generation of Intel chip.
I’m sure the new NPU’s in the current gen Intel’s could do it, but it’s a moot point today.
In Intel Macs, Listening to "hey Siri" is done by the T2 chip, which is roughly equivalent to an iPhone 7 processor.
