Starting Pages takes one second, plus another second once you choose your template. Starting Safari takes a small fraction of a second. The second thing is that the M1's GUI feels really quick at everything compared to my iMac. The first thing I want to say is that it physically runs very cold, unlike my Intel Mini which I could use as a plate warmer for my meals, even when just watching a YouTube video. But I just bought a monitor yesterday for my Mini and I did the OS updates yesterday and it's working with my new 4K monitor now. I've just started using my M1 Mini today, which I bought last year, but haven't used it until now because my iMac was still surviving. However I have learned that I can usually force the KM OCR to start working again by switching languages. I don't want to list all the problems with the KM OCR, but it often requires a root of the KM engine to start working again, and it often gets into a mode where it reduces its accuracy from about 97% to about 5% for no apparent reason.

In this case it would be especially helpful because the OCR that comes with KM is very finicky. This won't be the only feature Apple will ever introduce that is exclusive to M1. My suggestion is that for this particular feature he create an Action that uses the new M1 features (like the amazing OCR that's built-in to Monterey), whereas the old action can remain supported for as long as Peter wants to support Intel.

Peter will have to make a tough decision whether or not to support M1-exclusive features, especially when the Intel machines are going to be unsupported by Apple at some point in the future. Hmm, are you implying that KM should never support a feature that's available only on M1 Macs? Or do you think eventually KM should be allowed to drop support for Intel Macs? It's quite a shame that great new features of macOS cannot be supported just because the old processor doesn't support it.

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