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The macOS 15 Sequoia replace will inevitably be referred to as “the AI one” on reflection, introducing, because it does, the primary wave of “Apple Intelligence” options.
That is humorous as a result of none of that stuff is definitely prepared for the 15.0 launch that is popping out as we speak. Plenty of it’s coming “later this fall” within the 15.1 replace, which Apple has been testing entirely separately from the 15.0 betas for weeks now. A few of it will not be prepared till after that—rumors say picture technology will not be prepared till the top of the 12 months—however in any case, none of it’s prepared for public consumption but.
However the AI-free 15.0 launch does give us an opportunity to judge all the non-AI additions to macOS this 12 months. Apple Intelligence is sucking up plenty of the media oxygen, however in most different methods, it is a typical 2020s-era macOS launch, with one or two headliners, a number of quality-of-life tweaks, and a few sparsely documented under-the-hood stuff that can subtly change the way you expertise the working system.
The AI-free model of the working system can be the one that every one customers of the remaining Intel Macs shall be utilizing, since all the Apple Intelligence options require Apple Silicon. A lot of the Intel Macs that ran final 12 months’s Sonoma launch will run Sequoia this 12 months—the primary time this has occurred since 2019—however the distinction between the identical macOS model working on totally different CPUs shall be wider than it has been. It is a clear indicator that the Intel Mac period is drawing to a detailed, even when assist hasn’t completely ended simply but.
