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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by Shadonototra »

the best OS if you are fed up with windoze bloatware and are too lazy to setup a working desktop environment that suits you on linux

it has native unix environment, is fast and efficient

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by kube-system »

lghh wrote: post #8

Funny that they used a very clunky looking Windows laptop and a pretty dated looking Android phone to show off Facetime.

Looks about like the hardware you'd get for a N2040 laptop or a prepaid unlocked phone. Half of the stuff on the shelf at Walmart looks like this today. Just because Apple doesn't make entry-level hardware doesn't mean they're under any obligation to pretend that other companies don't. I think the image illustrates quite well what this update means -- FaceTime isn't just a rich-kid platform anymore.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by inDigiNeous »

psychometry wrote: post #12

MacOS major version release are so underwhelming to me. They're not so much OS updates as they're updates to built-in apps I don't use or use at a very surface level: Safari, Facetime, Apple Maps, Messages, etc. I'm not really sure what I'd want out of a new MacOS, though. It's been stable and (for my purposes) feature-complete for many years now. I don't remember the last time a MacOS upgrade added a feature I wante…

At least they've managed to optimize and make the OS faster. Mojave feels faster on my 2014 MPB than previous installations did. Would wish they would focus on the apps and not revamping the system each time they do an update.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by memco »

psychometry wrote: post #12

MacOS major version release are so underwhelming to me. They're not so much OS updates as they're updates to built-in apps I don't use or use at a very surface level: Safari, Facetime, Apple Maps, Messages, etc. I'm not really sure what I'd want out of a new MacOS, though. It's been stable and (for my purposes) feature-complete for many years now. I don't remember the last time a MacOS upgrade added a feature I wante…

I would love a more detailed change log of the actual OS level changes because sometimes there’s useful tidbits but you often have to be watching the WWDC content in order to see what will be in the upcoming OS. There have been some under the hood things like the APFS switch, Rosetta, and other under the hood changes that can significantly impact the OS. In this release I saw that there is a new copy mechanism in the finder which seems pretty significant but there isn’t a lot of detail about the technology behind it. I am also interested in the universal control and the ability to use your mac as an airplay device so now you can stream another Mac which used to be some thing then I did using a lunar display adapter. I also saw there’s a built in TOTP feature now which might be handy. I agree though most changes seem like app changes and services that could be decoupled from an OS update.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by comeonseriously »

hugi wrote: post #25
comeonseriously wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get that you want to show your own products in their best light, but this is just petty and beneath them.

Only if you have no sense of humor :). Reminds me of how hugely offended some people were that the icon for a Windows PC in Mac OS X’s network browser was a blue screened monitor.

I can be not offended and still feel it to be petty.
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