On Facebook Marketplace for some reason.
Is something going on with Apple? They are selling them cheap.
I just recently purchased a Mac Mini M1 and plays WoW just fine.
Sounds like people are selling their old intel Macs, hoping to get more money than what they would get from Apple’s trade-in program.
It remains to be seen if those folks are upgrading to newer Macs, switching to Windows, or just deciding they don’t need a “home computer” anymore. Apple’s next quarterly earnings report is next week.
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Maybe word is getting out that Intel macs are getting only the next OS update and none after.
I am so old, I remember when Mac used Motorola processors. The Apple people howled when Apple said they were going to Intel. So, how long was Apple Intel reign anyway?
14 or 17 years depending on how you want to count. The first Intel Mac was introduced in 2006; the first Apple Silicon Mac was introduced in 2020, and the last Intel Mac was discontinued in 2023.
The funny thing about that first Intel Mac was that it was 32 bit only, while macOS on PowerPC was already running in 64 bit mode.
The whole “32 bit app apocalypse” (that people still complain about) would have happened years earlier, and had less impact, if Intel had gotten its @&?! together just a year sooner.
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But then Intel would have had to admit their own 64-bit architecture was a failure earlier.
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So, the difference between MacTel and the M1 through M2 Mac mini is that WoW can’t play on MacTel mini natively, you have some Rosette translator?
No, not quite.
WoW on the Mac is a universal app, which means it is native for both Intel and Apple Silicon (all the M* chips). However, since Blizz is already spending time and effort developing and testing Mac Wow on two platforms, they’re not inclined to spend additional effort on taking advantage of new capabilities of Apple Silicon, such as Metal 4.
The BattleNet app, which downloads, updates, and launches WoW, as well as handling other stuff, is only Intel native at this time, and relies on Rosetta. However since Apple has warned developers that Rosetta will go away at some point, Blizz needs to port BattleNet to Apple Silicon native as well.
I remember the upgrade to PowerPC, I actually go back to the Apple ][ days.
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Intel Mac is over and losing more and more support so it would make sense people are ditching them
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We’ve been through a lot.
Motorola 68k → PowerPC → Intel → Apple Silicon.
Seems we’re always transitioning just as we settle.
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Are you oldest to remember when the old Apple users howled at the change from Motorola to Intel? I’m really glad they switched over from Intel, not that I had anything against them. Intel makes good chips.