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Apple Intelligence brings incredible new features across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
I see on the Community Support page something referring to "Apple Intelligence" highlighted in blue script.
What exactly is this? Will this make using a computer by technological idiots like myself any easier to use and understand? Or will it just create even more chaos and confusion to end users like myself who don't understand why computer logic can't be far more simplistic?
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iMac 21.5″, macOS 12.7
ExplainitomelikeIm2yrsold wrote:
I see on the Community Support page something referring to "Apple Intelligence" highlighted in blue script.
What exactly is this? Will this make using a computer by technological idiots like myself any easier to use and understand? Or will it just create even more chaos and confusion to end users like myself who don't understand why computer logic can't be far more simplistic?
The latter.
ExplainitomelikeIm2yrsold wrote:
I see on the Community Support page something referring to "Apple Intelligence" highlighted in blue script.
What exactly is this? Will this make using a computer by technological idiots like myself any easier to use and understand? Or will it just create even more chaos and confusion to end users like myself who don't understand why computer logic can't be far more simplistic?
The latter.
Have you tried the user manual: Mac User Guide - Apple Support (CA)? Or the built-in user guide you can get to from the menu bar of your Finder app for a guide immediately relevant to your particular OS version:
Or, asking your "how to" questions in a community support forum - like the place you are now?
First of all, you'll need a device which is capable of running Apple Intelligence. Your tag line suggests your mac is on MacOS 12.7. For your Mac to support Apple intelligence, it would HAVE to be a Mac with a M1 Chip and be updated to MacOS 15.1.
Perhaps this link will help you better understand what Apple Intelligence is all about --> Apple Intelligence - Apple
This link explains how to get Apple Intelligence --> How to get Apple Intelligence - Apple Support (CA)
ExplainitomelikeIm2yrsold wrote:
I see on the Community Support page something referring to "Apple Intelligence" highlighted in blue script.
What exactly is this?
As was linked above, Apple marketing describes it thusly: Apple Intelligence - Apple
Will this make using a computer by technological idiots like myself any easier to use and understand?
No. Like most anything else, it’ll have advantages, and it’ll have disadvantages and tradeoffs.
Or will it just create even more chaos and confusion to end users like myself who don't understand why computer logic can't be far more simplistic?
If you want a simpler experience than macOS, an iPad can be a choice. That if your necessary apps and services are all available on iPad.
Apple Intelligence is a non-issue for an iMac 21.5” configuration (per the footer) too, as Apple Intelligence doesn’t support that. So not a concern at least until you decide to replace that iMac with a model supported by Apple Intelligence. Which might be a year or two for you, and maybe after some of the AI hype storm blows over.
For learning about Mac or iPad or otherwise more generally, Apple offers free classes for their products: Today at Apple - Apple
I'm confused what you're hoping to accomplish here? If you think adding new technology lacks common sense, is convoluted, harder to use, that's out of the realm of what we users, on this user to user only forum can do for you.
Apple Stores have sessions to help people learn more about how to use their devices. Perhaps this link will help you find a session, which will benefit you --> Today at Apple - Apple
ExplainitomelikeIm2yrsold wrote:
So, I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure there's a ton of storage left on my iMac 21.5" running macOS Monterey 12.7.6. I no longer get updates. Seems like a shame to waste it given how little I used it. Would it pay, and are there people out there who can install the M1 Chip in my 10 year old unit?
No, and no, respectively.
By the time that processor swap is completed, most everything else including memory, storage, I/O connections, mainboard, and quite probably even including the case and display, will necessarily also have been swapped.
As for free space, I’d suggest reading the docs linked above, or a Today at Apple class linked above.
Related: See used and available storage space on your Mac - Apple Support
No. That is not possible. An M1 Mac has totally different architecture and there is now way to make your Mac a M1 Mac at all.
Thank you for reply. No, IDO NOT want another device that's "simpler" to use. In what universe could another device be any easier to use? I'm sure it uses all the same non-common sense, convoluted, let's see how we can make it harder then it should be for lay people, approach in its' design. I barely know how to use the device I've all ready owned for seven years... I see so much stuff on my iMac that I don't have clues to what it is, what it's supposed to do, and NO SIMPLE instructions about how to even get started...
So, I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure there's a ton of storage left on my iMac 21.5" running macOS Monterey 12.7.6. I no longer get updates. Seems like a shame to waste it given how little I used it. Would it pay, and are there people out there who can install the M1 Chip in my 10 year old unit?
Monterey just stopped being supported with updates when Sequoia came out. I will likely still get security patches for a couple more years (possibly even longer), and it's i5 or i7 Intel chip is still quite solid. I don't think there's any reason to stop using it if it is working properly.
Understanding 'Apple Intelligence' in Community Support
