If you asked me to tell you all the most exciting things that have happened to Macs in the last two years, I’d start with the hardware, not the software.
The move from Intel’s chips to Apple’s silicon is transformative, with significantly improved battery life and the ability for the MacBook Air and Mac mini to do the kind of work that the MacBook Pro and 27-inch iMac needed years ago. became. The Mac Studio has successfully bridged the long-standing gap between the Mac mini and Mac Pro in Apple’s desktop lineup, and more form factor redesigns than new features in the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are more likely to mark Mac hardware lineups circa 2016. It seems like it was made specifically to address the criticism.These Macs, whether Big Sur or Ventura, would be an exciting upgrade.
On the software side, nothing has happened to Macs in the last two years. Getting new features. Windows 11 introduces some very useful window management features that I miss when I’m not using Windows 11 (especially in multi-monitor mode), but it’s still nice to work with.
However, I feel that the software side of the Mac these days lacks its own direction and originality. By and large, macOS’s new features simply help keep pace with what’s happening on iPhones and iPads. With Ventura, the core system apps have been rewritten from scratch to reflect their iOS counterparts, new window management features have been implemented on the iPad in the same way, and new and old app updates have been made. I feel the truth One of them is increasingly just an iPad app running inside a macOS window.
The summary of all these features is to make the Mac more familiar and comfortable for people who access it through one of Apple’s mobile platforms. This makes some sense. The Mac is Apple’s most powerful and scalable computing platform, both hardware and software. It also has the lowest shipping volume. Some of his first iPhone purchases may have been because he was a Mac user at first, but that balance certainly flipped a few years ago.
But when was the last time the Finder, Dock, or menu bar was given a substantial, non-visual rethink? When? The Mac has added new internal features unique to it, but the main feature is mostly iOS and iPadOS imports, especially this year.
