macOS Ventura has exclusive features for your M1 and M2 Mac - time to upgrade?

Intel Macs are setting off into the sunset

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Appleis still moving ahead with keeping features away from itsIntelMacs as it keeps on the trajectory to move its Macs to Apple Silicon, asmacOS Venturacarries this on frommacOS 12 Montereyin 2021.

With theM2 chipofficial and launching with theredesigned MacBook Air, users were worried that there’d be a bunch of features exclusive to these chips, similar towhat macOS Monterey did.

However, it looks to be less of a sting this year, with Intel Mac users able to use Stage Manager, Continuity Camera, and of course,the Weather app.

What’s not available on your Intel Mac?

There’s only three features that are exclusive to M1 and M2 Mac users, and arguably, they’re not going to make an impact on how you use your Mac for now.

Reference Mode is more of a pro feature, where you can judge the colors in a photo or a video against aniPad Pro 12.9-inch model, while the omission of live captions can be solved with a third-party app.

However, it’s important to keep in mind that Apple said in 2020 that it was aiming to have all of its Macs on Apple Silicon as soon as possible. While it confirmed that it would be supporting Intel Macs for now, there’s always a chance that the bigger features for macOS 14 and 15 could be exclusive to these M1 and beyond Macs.

With this in mind, the Mac is in a period of renaissance, so it could be time to look into an upgrade if you’ve got aMacBook Proor aniMacthat is still running on Intel.

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