macOS Monterey

Post by rcarmo » Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 6:55 AM UTC

FlagsAreFun wrote: post #385

ushakov wrote: post #101

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that's great to hear i have a MacBook Pro with Intel as well Big Sur feels sluggish, it's not that it's slow, but it feels slow. I don't remember what OS my MacBook came with, but every update made it slower, especially Mail.app, which takes good 10 seconds to launch. Downloading Monterey now, hopefully will see improvements! edit: but my biggest macOS complaint yet has to be the space used by "Other", which at the m…

"Other" may be some local Time Machine snapshots, which are purgeable. It may also be an APFS snapshot, which is _not_ purgeable (indeed macOS boots of signed snapshots now)

Post by arvinsim » Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 7:01 AM UTC

ehakan wrote: post #115

The Macbook Pro 16" thermal throttling problems with external monitors [1] finally seems to be fixed with Monterey by enabling low power mode. (At least with 16:9 60Hz monitors). I've been dealing with `kernel_task` hitting 900% CPU usage and the entire window server running at 2 FPS when using external monitors since I got the mbp 16" a year ago. Good riddance. [1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-is-hot-noi…

Post by galad87 » Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 7:05 AM UTC

jabl wrote: post #455

Any word on the fate of OpenGL? Yes, it was deprecated ages ago in favor of Metal, but Apple still shipped an OpenGL implementation. However, I read some rumors that in Monterey they have finally ripped it out. Can anyone confirm or deny?

Post by shp0ngle » Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 7:08 AM UTC

0xFACEFEED wrote: post #290

MrWiffles wrote: post #181

I haven’t seen this anywhere when I’ve looked, so I’ll ask here on the slim chance maybe they really added something I badly want and somebody knows… Is there any application forced sandboxing feature yet? Something users can control to forcibly stop bad behavior from certain “must have” apps. Chrome, for example, has been caught doing entire drive scans on Windows, and I’m not sure I entirely trust Zoom either. So I…

I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…

Post by shp0ngle » Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 7:09 AM UTC

forgotmyoldname wrote: post #372

0xFACEFEED wrote: post #290

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I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…

I use Photoshop for art. Unfortunately, all other desktop software just isn't good, but thankfully Procreate is absolutely amazing software that I can use on my iPad (if you're reading this, devs, please port it to macOS. There are countless artists that'll pay to switch to a non-subscription based, non-Adobe piece of software that doesn't suck). But for desktop, I really have no choice but to buy into the Adobe sche…