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Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by demallien »

Angostura wrote: post #154
AaronFriel wrote: post #147

I am deeply disappointed by the "development" of OS X. It seems that Apple has long ago gutted their x86 OS group due to dwindling profits and lack of real competition. There are a handful of reasons people buy a Mac, and I would largely put them into three groups: * Students looking for a stable and/or sexy device for their university. * Artists using applications that don't exist on other platforms (or that priorit…

Mavericks introduced a lot of tangible under the hood improvements that perhaps you missed, Ars did a thorough review, perhaps start with how the OS was changed to improve energy consumption: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/12/#energy-sa...

Yes, linux geeks can school Apple on systems engineering when they can deliver laptops with a better battery life than Macs get. As for this latest release, what, adding a new systems programming language and a whole new graphics API isn't enough?

At least my Mac recognizes and uses a second monitor when I plug it in, unlike the bloody Fedora 19 box that I use at work. And don't get me started on that second graphics card that the system can't figure out how to use! And the wifi Just Works(tm), unlike the Ubuntu laptop that I had before that.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by andy_ppp »

My wish list is per project spaces, such that:

1) a copy of mail, tasks, text editor/IDE, preview etc. Can all be opened that are specific to a project/space, say.

2) Multiple copies of apps filtered by their project

3) mail only shows emails about/from/in association with the current project

4) preview/photoshop shows project assets, these are shared in the ether via iCloud, you can see designers working on things in realtime

5) I switch spaces and they are all saved/restorable after reboot

6) developer Apis for this!

Wishful thinking I guess :-)

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by agildehaus »

demallien wrote: post #159
dev1n wrote: post #64

If possible, could someone from the Apple community please tell me if Yosemite will be faster / lighter than snow leopard? I don't want an OS that requires 8 gigs of ram to run "fast" like Mavericks requires.

whaaaaat? My 2012 MacBook Air with 4 gigs of RAM and SSD is lightening fast. The thing that kills performance these days on Macs is if you still have a spinning platter of rust as your storage. Don't do that. (Aside: this is not surprising - Apple has spent a lot of effort optimizing the core OS for iOS, which has always been flash-only storage)

4 gigs of RAM isn't much. On modern OSX, you'll overflow that quite frequently. Using your SSD as virtual memory isn't good for its longevity.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by cobalt »

aroman wrote: post #113
eurleif wrote: post #80

Which parts of the front window in this screenshot[0] are draggable? Maybe this is just me, but I don't like how the titlebar and window contents are visually merged. [0] https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/images/overview_design_her...

All of them — everywhere that isn't another control. Apple stole this design wholesale from GTK[1], but I think it's a superior paradigm anyway, so I don't really mind. [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.10/GtkHeaderBar.html

Well, windows vista had this with Aero

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by digitailor »

aeontech wrote: post #135
digitailor wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I agree. I'm a professional visual designer, FWIW. After 22 years on Macintosh, I've completely transitioned to Crunchbang on a MacBook Pro and a Windows 7/Crunchbang dual-boot workstation. I really like the translucency and general look of Win7. I had started to feel like OS X was visually dated, but more importantly, harming my workflow. For development and design, I am working nearly twice as fast in the OS u…

I'm really curious what you use for your design process. Are GIMP and Inkscape solid enough now that you can spend all day in them without tearing your hair out?

Luckily I don't have to spend all day in any apps, since I have a lot of varied responsibilities. GIMP is sufficient for me for most bitmap/photo editing work and there's certain parts of it I like better than PS. Inkscape is underpowered; okay, but not my favorite. Then again, neither is Illustrator. In a pinch, I can use Adobe products either on my old Mac or the Win7 box, but that's usually for using old files or opening files from others. (I have a KVM.) It can be inconvenient using non-Adobe tools, but I figure now is a good time to break vendor lock-in. Five years ago I still found GIMP insufficient but that's no longer the case.

Believe it or not, two iPad apps have become really important design tools for me- iDraw, a vector graphics app, and ProCreate, a painting app. They cover most straightforward duties. I was very surprised at their power, and not having to whip out the graphics tablet is nice. Working anywhere from an iPad mini retina is pretty liberating. Obviously the laptop is still needed for on-the-move coding, but again, that's Linux, despite the (good) Mac hardware.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by [deleted] »

rayiner wrote: post #6

HandOff is the kind of thing I'm surprised took so long. Honestly, I was expecting MS to get something like it first. After all, your Windows Phone already runs Windows, right?

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