CaseySJ
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Some features that depend on exclusive capabilities such as the Neural Engine, for example, make sense to be limited to Apple Silicon. I am also puzzled by "more detailed maps" being exclusive to Apple Silicon, but have to admit I don't know what underlying processor capabilities are being used for this. Alas it's not a malicious thing they do because they should take full advantage of their own processors. And Apple Silicon owners deserve nothing less.Agreed, Apple is definitely moving on. I'm hearing that Apple is limiting certain features in Monterey to Apple Silicon Macs only: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/09/macos-monterey-features-for-m1-macs-only/
- Portrait Mode blurred backgrounds in FaceTime videos
- Live Text for copying and pasting, looking up, or translating text within photos
- An interactive 3D globe of Earth in the Maps app
- More detailed maps in cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and London in the Maps app
- Text-to-speech in more languages, including Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish
- On-device keyboard dictation that performs all processing completely offline
- Unlimited keyboard dictation (previously limited to 60 seconds per instance)
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The features mentioned in the MacRumors article that will be limited to M1 are pretty insignificant, but it seems that Apple has started down the path in bifurcating the x86 build of macOS from the ARM build. And it's kind of worrying thinking about what else will be on the cutting room floor for x86 in the next few iterations of macOS. Especially since I don't know what's so special about M1 that it can get "more detailed maps in cities like San Francisco, etc." but x86 Macs (including the potential new Ice Lake Mac Pro) won't.
Because the future for macOS is Apple Silicon, I think all of us will eventually convert. For me the tipping point has not yet arrived. I may be swayed by M1X or M2, however.
There are professional workflows that still depend on Intel or x86 architecture. But I suspect the market for a next-generation Intel Mac Pro is not that large.It would be nice to get some drivers for the newer Intel tech... but why would someone spend thousands on a new Intel-based Mac Pro that likely won't get all of the OS's new features?