Apple's WWDC announcements should worry anyone with an Intel Mac | Engadget
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When asked, Apple said that it has to deprecate older hardware when those machines no longer support the experience that its users have come to expect from macOS.That’s notable, because macOS Monterey does support the late 2014 Mac Mini, the base model of which… packs a 1.4GHz Intel Core i5-4260U (Haswell) CPU with 4GB of RAM and Intel HD Graphics 5000. By dragging its feet with chip refreshes over the last few years (not helped, of course, by Intel’s own woes), Apple makes it harder to convincingly make a technical argument for withdrawing support for some models and not others.Similarly, even new Intel Macs running macOS Monterey will find their experience limited in some ways.
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