Betting that the next incremental update will be named macOS Carmel.
Nah, too close, they will go farther north, I think. Point Reyes is my bet.
Closeness is the point. They did do Yosemite/El Capitan and Sierra/High Sierra, after all.
macOS Monterey
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#642Literally the only interesting feature, to me, is Low Power Mode
I wonder what the battery life on M1 pro is with Low power mode compared to m1
Re: macOS Monterey
#643I tend to just surf through MacOS releases. It's mostly just updates to the native apps which I don't use anyways, so I'm rarely affected neither positively nor negatively. Well, Big Sur made the notification widget/area worse for me, but other than that I can't remember any significant changes in the past 5 years since I've been using Mac.
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#644I 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…
I'm thinking if, for these "one-off" tasks doable only with very special SW, we could utilize that APFS snapshoting feature of macOS filesystem.
1. Create snapshot 2. Install obtrusive SW, finish task 3. Restore snapshot.
Any sources for this kinds of workflow?
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It doesn't work very well in office environments unfortunately. I gave it a try with my work MBP and Mac Pro, and the amount of cursor judder / keyboard lag was wild. It'd also just plain not work at times. I think things are better when the environment is less busy and devices can talk to eachother over the same WiFi network (instead of WiFi direct), but it has proven to be unusable in the one scenario where I'd hav…
Universal Control isn’t even out yet in beta.
It's very easy to enable. But yeah, I will admit it's not 'production-ready'.
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All that legacy bs crutchy stuff is the reason they are doing their own silicon. I am super stoked about the performance of my M1. Combine my experience w/ this machine + Apple's latest turnaround w/ the Macbook Pro's - my faith is restored. If I needed a new rig I would not hesitate to pick one of these up.
> All that legacy bs crutchy stuff is the reason they are doing their own silicon I don't deny there are some genuinely interesting tech coming out of Apple (I wish I could buy an M1 without all the Apple baggage), but the problem is not crusty old tech, there will always be flaws and technical issues... the problem is this persistent attitude of covering shit up and flat out lying to customers faces, especially when…
You're being overdramatic. They responded to the criticism of the pro community with the new Macbook Pro which has been unanimously seen as an olive branch.
Re: macOS Monterey
#647I've been away from MacOS for about 10 years. Big Sur now. Kinda hate it. I keep accidentally invoking extra layers of UI everywhere. That's fine I guess. But what I ran into that I LOVE is making EVERY app full-screen, pretending there is no desktop or window management, and just swiping right/left among them. I wish there was a way to smooth out the UX so that this feels first-class and I stop accidentally breaking…
>I wish there was a way to smooth out the UX so that this feels first-class and I stop accidentally breaking this illusion at times.
This is probably not what you meant by "smooth out the UX", but I like to enable "reduce motion" under System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display. It means when you move between apps, the sideways pan is replaced by a fade, which is nice if you do this a lot.