Originally published at: The Real System Requirements for Apple’s 2024 Operating Systems - TidBITS
Apple’s upcoming operating systems have good historical hardware support, but devils dance in the details. Two MacBook Airs, three iPads, and three Apple Watches fall by the wayside this year. Older devices that are generally compatible won’t be able to take advantage of all the new features. Read on to find out what your devices will support.
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Excellent survey @ace, appreciated.
All my kit will upgrade but only spot Apple Intelligence will feature is my M1 Max MBPro.
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In re Enhance Dialogue, you ask
when using built-in speakers, wired headphones, AirPods, and other Bluetooth-connected speakers and headphones (what else is there, Apple?).
Hearing aids! My partner’s Signia aids are always connected to his SE 2020. That manufacturer’s app lets him tweak the hearing-aid profile for different listening environments – noisy restaurants, windy streets, road noise from tires.
I guess we’ll have to see whether hearing aids count as a Bluetooth-connected speaker.
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Good catch! Hearing aids would seem to fall into the Bluetooth category, but it’s also possible that Enhance Dialogue would conflict with their internal processing. We’ll see!
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Hearing aids seem to fall into a special category in an already complicated area. Somewhat similar to AirPods in that may have to pause the source when a phone call comes in and then restart source (music, podcasts from different apps, YouTube, etc.). As mentioned the hearing aid apps connect with the hearing aid. It seems to me that both the iPhone apps and the hearing app can shut out background noise (hearing aids shut off their microphone [is there more than one?] or is the iPhone’s microphones involved. I haven’t tried to pin this down but the iPhone Control Center and hearing aid app seem to handle this differently. BTW I have Costco Phillips hearing aids.
I forget what all these four are.
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Does anyone know how much RAM Sequoia occupies on a fresh build? No one on the Internet reports on this.
That’s because nobody should care about RAM use since Mavericks brought out Apple’s new management system, that optimizes it’s use.