Apple has made a lot of promises that Intel Macs will continue to enjoy software support for many years to come, and for good reason: A large portion of the computer catalog still runs on the good old Santa Clara processors. He even whispers that a file New Mac Pro Intel in tubes. We’re still in the midst of switching to Apple Silicon chips.
However, this week’s presentation of macOS Monterey hints at the first dividing lines between the two platforms. Many features of the new operating system will not be available on Intel Macs, even on the latest models. The small fonts below news page macOS Monterey is a killer for these Macs. We know that the following functions are reserved for Mac M1:
- Portrait mode that blurs the background of an image during a FaceTime call;
- Function live text Identifies text in Safari, images, quick appearance, and screenshots;
- 3D interactive world and detailed city discovery function in maps;
- new languages text to speech in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish;
- Local voice dictation and continuous dictation (more than 60 seconds).
Apple doesn’t explain why Intel Macs don’t take advantage of these features, but it can be argued that many of them rely heavily on the neural chip built into the M1. It’s less clear for updates on the plans.
Old Mac owners smiled when we learned models that won’t make it to Monterey – including Macs are still very capable, such as the 2014 MacBook Pro and iMac.
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