This week, Apple announced a series of updates/refreshes to the Mac product line bringing the iMac, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini (which also received a redesign) up to date with the latest generation of Apple Silicon (Apple M4 chips) to support Apple Intelligence while keeping the starting prices of each product line unchanged.

Apple is a year and a half into their two-year transition to Apple Silicon. With only the Mac Pro remaining in the current Mac product line to transition to Apple Silicon and the next generation Apple Silicon chip, M2, announced at WWDC 2022 with the first two Macs running on M2 - the MacBook Pro available now and the MacBook Air due out July 2022, now is a good time for businesses that rely on Macs (and are still using Intel-based Macs) to take proactive steps to ensure those businesses are ready to transition to Apple Silicon-based Macs when the time comes.

Many modern printers support driverless technology (ex: AirPrint) to install/add printers in macOS; however, if you happen to be using an older HP printer that does not support driverless technology, macOS will typically download and install the required print drivers via Apple Software Update if those drivers aren’t already included in the latest version of macOS.

If you’re ready to upgrade to Apple’s latest version of macOS, macOS Monterey, your best and simplest option is to upgrade your existing installation of macOS to macOS Monterey provided your existing Mac is supported. If your Mac supports macOS Monterey, download macOS Monterey from the App Store and run the installation (or via Software Update, if available).

Need to run Windows on an Apple Silicon-based Mac?

If you have a Mac with M1, M1 Pro or M1 Max, you can’t use Boot Camp as Apple does not support Boot Camp on M1.

Need to run Windows on a Mac?

If you have an Intel-based Mac, you can use Boot Camp to setup a Boot Camp partition on your Mac to install and run Windows.