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Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by wwweston »

SenHeng wrote: post #84

I’m surprised at all the negative takes. I thought it was refreshing, they’re reintroducing colours and icons, cleaning up and using a consistent design language across platforms, and introducing new, well tested convenience features.

> using a consistent design language across platforms

Which means that design conventions that happened to be well-optimized for the platform on which they arose are going to suffer.

But don't worry! All the lost productivity will surely be worth the sacrifice if it only provides the one thing that matters above everything when it comes to product and UX decisions: whether it can be used as a positive bullet point on resumes while they're managing up.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by jtbayly »

knolan wrote: post #100
Synaesthesia wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally I’ve had zero issues upgrading to Catalina, it seems to perform better than Mojave for me, and more stable too.

I’ve a major 10.15 issue on two Macs where doing any kind of calculation in Spotlight maxes out all cores on the CPU for 10-15 minutes.

I just read about this here:

https://talk.tidbits.com/t/psa-catalina-spotlight-is-broken-...

It's one of the most recent reasons I have yet to update to Catalina.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by beckler »

achairapart wrote: post #149

Requirements: Mac Mini 2014 and later. So, no upgrade for my Mac Mini late 2012. F*ck you, Apple. Why on earth I need a less powerful machine to run your latest OS?

I'm on an early 2011 MBP. I've been stuck on High Sierra. There's a patch for Mojave (http://dosdude1.com/mojave/), but honestly I have no reason to really upgrade to it.

The only blocker I've run across so far is that I can't compile Flutter apps for iOS unless I downgrade Flutter. Since I mostly use it to learn and not really leverage, it's not really an issue yet.

I was planning on upgrading to a new MBP next month, but now I'll just wait and see what the ARM machines look like before pulling the trigger on anything.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by racl101 »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #43
ksec wrote: post #30

The biggest question I had when I was watching, Why did they not take the chance to rename is as macOS 11? OSX has been through two transition. The NeXT team must be very proud of their foundation they built 2x years ago.

I wish it was MacOS 16. Just drop the 10. part.

> Just drop the 10. part.

It's cleaner.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by zimpenfish »

henriquez wrote: post #79

This site and its scroll-hijacking are unusably choppy on my 2018 Macbook Air. It seems like a total departure from Apple's attention to detail, but maybe that's a gentle reminder that Apple considers this computer to be EOL hardware.

On this 2017 Macbook Pro 13", it's perfectly smooth in Safari. I don't think it's necessarily the web page that's at fault here?

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by zimpenfish »

hollandheese wrote: post #51
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #32

The word is out that this is macOS 11. Personally, I can't figure out why they didn't just drop the `10.` part and call it MacOS 16.

They're signaling the death of Mac OS X.

I mean, it was renamed to macOS in 2016, I think "the death of Mac OS X" already happened.

https://fortune.com/2016/06/13/apple-mac-os-sierra/

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by thesquib »

cytzol wrote: post #52

I was really hoping they'd take some time to address Catalina's glaring issues — its slowness, bugginess, just general sloppiness — and instead they did the opposite. Honestly, every time Apple has done anything with the Mac the past couple of years, they've screwed it up. The infamous keyboards that they doubled-down and then tripled-down upon (I have personally had five keyboard replacements). The way Catalina send…

I'm still afraid to run Catalina. I have to use it on one laptop (me hardware) an it is slow and problematic. I've had actual system crashes. I can't remember the last time that happened pre Catalina

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by quijoteuniv »

As many others I have been having a bad taste in my mouth with everything Apple related. I think I finally can point it out: Apple is only for rich users. There is terrible inequality in the earth and they build computers and developed OS for the rich. Not cool. Actually is exactly the opposite if why/how they started with the Apple 1.

Re: macOS Big Sur Preview

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Post by wespiser_2018 »

I'm seriously afraid of this. I have to keep my Mac updated for work, and Catalina was both a major frustration getting my toolchain up and working, and a constant time waste due to the daily kernel panics that are caused by a persistent, yet unknown, issue.
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