Alex1N

This is what I’ve been waiting for - a (monstrous) replacement for my mid-2010 27” 11,3 i7 Intel Mac (which, after the macOS Ventura 13.6 update running on OCLP, is barely usable). I ended ip having to borrow my wife’s 21.5” 2019 (Intel) iMac) to keep going (she got a 13“ M3 MacBook Air). I’m planning to get a decently expanded M4 Pro version - and hopefully a decent monitor. I’m glad that I decided to skip the memory-bandwidth-lobotomised M3 ‘Pro’, and wait.

“Not available in Australia”  

Not so fast - the same list of fixes (as far as I can tell) has been released for iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 (as well as Ventura and Sonoma), making it unnecessary to update to 18 for the security fixes. And in my case I now wait until at least x.2 and the screaming and angst over .0 and .1 releases have subsided. I’ve been burnt before…

One of the main reasons that Apple gave at the announcement of Apple Silicon was its frustration with Intel not providing timely updates on its CPUs. And now, four years on, we appear (according to rumour at least, but the clock is definitely ticking) to be in a very similar situation - with Apple being the one to drag its feet. That’s not to say that Apple Silicon isn’t a vast improvement on the Intel offerings that it replaces, but timing issues are beginning to become apparent. It’s making purchasing a Mac much more of a gamble.

I’m not a fan of the old or the current OSX/maOS System Preferences/Settings. Both look like a dog’s breakfast, as already described above.

Diverting somewhat to the subject of Safari, where’s the previously much-trumpeted ‘translate page’ menu choice in the address bar dropdown featured in the article gone? Deleted? Moved to somewhere harder to find/less logical/more annoying?