Magos Montrey is releasing on October 25th: This Mac is compatible

Magos Montessori has a release date. Apple’s new desktop operating system will be available to everyone on October 25, 2021. In addition to the newly announced MacBook Pros, the following devices will receive a free update.

One announced for WWDC 2021 Magos Montreux Completed after ten beta versions and will soon be downloaded to all owners of compatible Macs. However, not all devices that get the MacOS Big Sur will enjoy the new version, and some functionality will not be available on the Intel Mac.

After the apple with the big Update Magos Big Shrink Removed some old devices from the compatibility list, Montessori continues. So both the 2015 MacBook, the 2013 MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro (Late 2013) and since 2014 the Imax have officially relied on the MacOS 11 Big Surrey. This brings to an end the update journey for the devices in question.

The following Max is still compatible with MacOS 12:

• iMac (Late 2015) and newer
• Mac Pro (Late 2013) and newer
• iMac Pro (2017) and newer
• Mac Mini (Late 2014) and newer
• MacBook Air (early 2015) and newer
• MacBook (early 2016) and newer
• MacBook Pro (early 2015) and newer

With MacOS Montessori, Apple is bringing its bases even closer. So that’s a big part New MacOS functions Features introduced by Apple in September iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 Brought or will be brought.

With FaceTime, iOS 15 and Montessori users can also use it Android and Windows users: Facetimen inside. (Image: t3n; Apple)

Features include fasttime sharing, 3D audio for more spatial sound, and quick notes feature. Focus functionality, 3D map material for a few regions and real-time text recognition in photos and live text are part of the update.

The live text is part of the Magos Montreux. (Image: t3n; Apple)

Apple is also bringing the shortcuts introduced with iOS 13 to the desktop, and Safari has received a major update. The global control function (“unrestricted control”) announced in June comes with Monterey. This allows users to: work with mouse and keyboard so that they can switch smoothly between Mac and iPod without setting the function. According to Apple, the MacOS can drag and drop content between Monterey and iPods 15 devices.

Universal Control integrates iPad with MacBook and iMac. (Image: Apple)

According to Apple, some functions can only be used with newer computers with built-in processors. Intel Max is left.

MacOS 12: Among other things, the new portrait system is not available for Intel Macs. (Screenshot: t3n; Apple)

In the exclusive functions, for example, direct text recognition for photos, you can copy, translate and search the authorized text content in them. According to the footnote on the Monterey preview page, the new portrait mode for FaceTime cannot be used on Intel Max either.

In addition, the interactive 3D globe on Apple Maps is not compatible with Intel Max, nor is there a newer, more comprehensive map object, initially only available in London, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Extended text-to-speech functionality in other languages ​​such as Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish can only be used on Macs with Apple’s own chips.

Although the last betas of MacOS Montessori often seem stable, users will have to wait for one or another update before installing the latest OS version on their production devices. As a rule, one or another bug is still hidden in the final version, which is detected only when the OS is used by a large number of people.