Hello OpenAI Team and Community,
I am writing to express my strong desire for the ChatGPT desktop app to support Intel-based Macs. I own a 2020 iMac Pro, which still performs exceptionally well for all my needs, and I am not planning to upgrade to an Apple Silicon Mac in the near future.
Currently, the ChatGPT desktop app is only available for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. However, many users, including myself, rely on our Intel Macs and feel left out from accessing this valuable tool natively on our devices.
Given that many modern software applications support both Intel and Apple Silicon architectures, I kindly request the OpenAI development team to consider extending compatibility to Intel-based Macs. This would greatly benefit a significant portion of your user base who are eager to utilize the ChatGPT desktop app without having to resort to web browsers or third-party solutions.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. I look forward to a positive response and hope for future updates that include Intel Mac support.
Best regards,
ITcools
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Although MacGPT works OK, it seems to have lots of issues of late. I really would prefer a native Intel app.
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Intel-mac…“Don’t leave us alone”
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same issue and i pay for full chat gpt!
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More importantly, I don’t think a good answer has ever been given as to why it’s not on Intel When it can clearly work on Intel computers, and even less power, android phones
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Hello dear friend, I am in the same situation I have a macbook pro 16’ 2019 that works perfectly and fully satisfies me! I’m waiting for chatgpt that I use with a pro account to finally make the mac intel application available! It is vital to satisfy your community.
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Those with Intel Macs are missing out on more than ever with the release of Advanced Voice on desktop.
There is no reason that the ChatGPT desktop app would be unable to run on Intel Macs!
This is another request for OpenAI to support slightly older Macs.
(I will be happy to cancel my sub and switch over to whatever Anthropic releases otherwise)
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Super disappointing! If you lock intel users out, why not allow paid users to use advanced voice mode in the browser. I will have to look into alternatives.
Me too. Come on, hit ‘recompile’ for Intel!! I want the voice feature, so alternatively get that working in the browser please.
Yes - I would like to request too!
Maybe you can try this one
this is the old version released in 2023 can use on Mac Intel
I put my voice alongside all others from this topic. Not having an intel mac version is unacceptable considering the most recent intel mac released just 4 years ago. We don’t change our computers as often as our phones. My 2020 intel mac is more than functional and I don’t need to upgrade my computer yet. Plus, I’m a paid member of chatGPT+ as well.
I’ll probably cancel my sub if there’s still no intel mac support in the near future.
Then, you have people (like me and many other professionals) who have the latest Mac Intel -device that will live for long time- just left out of the game. It gets even more ridiculous when you switch to Windows on BootCamp and there you can have it running.
Yep, I have 4 intel macs and a single M3 Max one but not being able to use the desktop version of chat gpt is a bit irritating because voice support is not available as far as I know though the website.
As its just calling an api and all you would need to do is build an intel version it seems a little arbitrary to simply refuse to support them considering how much of the mac user base still uses intel macs.
Also have paid for a subscription from just about when you started offering them.
A workaround is to install a Windows emulator (e.g. Parallels) and then install ChapGPT desktop app…
It is very disappointing there is not ChatGPT App for Intel Macs. I am running the Windows App on a Dell laptop with an 8th Intel CPU and considering the AI compute task is server side there is absolutely no reason why it can’t run on a Intel Mac!!!