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Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by aljgz »

Writing this comment from my FrameWork laptop with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 96GB Ram, 4TB Storage, that I got for $4k. Running Fedora with KDE. How much would I need to pay Apple to get a laptop with this much ram?

The day I got my only Apple device, an ipad, only to know they will kill my browser download as soon as I switch to a different app, it became my last. I don't want to pay a company only to be subject to their decision of what I can and cannot run on my machine.

If I vote for that with my wallet, I deserve it.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by kstrauser »

piskov wrote: post #378
anon7000 wrote: post #334

(This about iOS, not Mac, but obviously a lot is similar.) I might be in the minority on hn, but I’m using iOS 26 for the first time today and am pretty happy with the new design. For one, it’s a lot snappier and faster. I’m glad they finally did something about the slow-ass animations iOS had in a lot of places. Secondly, it has a lot more personality. I enjoy that. Thirdly, they finally moved more basic UI stuff cl…

The worst thing is Safari removing all tabs button. Quick way is to pinch out with two fingers but that is impossible one-handed. Another is to swipe up (or left/right) on address bar but that often triggers app switching because he indicator is 3mm lower

It’s still there, just moved. Tap the … icon next to the address bar. “All tabs” will be under your thumb.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by jachee »

piskov wrote: post #375
hk1337 wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like the Apps change. Instead of opening up the icons full screen, it opens in a spotlight search window.

Which is shit because with launchpad you had muscle memory. Imagine you no longer have pages with icons on your phone and instead only have a search bar

Your “Imagine…” hypothetical is literally how I run my iPhone. I don’t need piles of icons cluttering up my screen. I can pull down and type 1-2 characters and get any app on my phone, easily.

More room for glanceable, informational widgets that way.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by itopaloglu83 »

mhuffman wrote: post #256
dsego wrote: post #103

Awful cheap UX, cartoonish style with huge padding, lack of structure and hierarchy. The spacing is inconsistent, everything is rounded. The app launcher stutters, the icons load one by one, it flickers each time I do the 4 finger gesture. Why does the volume bubble have tick marks but the one in the menu doesn't? The trash icon looks like the windows recycle bin or gnome theme from 20 years ago, not sure why it's fl…

It really does look like ass on the laptop. Maybe it works on mobile, idk, but terrible on laptop. Also not a good sign since apple is not known for rolling back releases.

I think this might be the one.

Realistically speaking, they’re not going to rollback anything. They even kept and even double downed on that’s stupid photos app redesign on iOS.

At least the review sites are making some noise this time instead of parroting Apple’s announcements. They all sold us that awful photos app as the great new thing.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by nsagent »

robin_reala wrote: post #24

A reminder, if you dislike the liquid glass look, that going into System settings / Accessibility / Display and toggling “Increase contrast” gets you a properly nice design with actual borders and solid backgrounds. 100% recommended.

I initially tried that and thought it improved some things, but it increased contrast across the OS, such that some webpages, including stock HN became too blinding. I instead switched to "Reduce Transparency," but that has its own issues.

Overall not pleased. I really did not want to care about the UI changes at all. But having experienced it now, I'm so annoyed I upgraded to iOS 26 and I'm having trouble focusing on the screen. I want WebGPU support, but I'm very hesitant to upgrade to macOS 26 (which is required for WebGPU in Safari).

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by arthurcolle »

smcleod wrote: post #95

I've been running it since the RC and am currently in the process of uninstalling it. The new UI is so incredibly ugly I honestly cannot understand how they thought it was acceptable to even released as a beta let alone an RC and now release. There's SO much padding and wasted screen real estate, disjointed looking floating inner panels, window corners that are so rounded you see gaps in full screen apps, inconsisten…

It's very unstable, indexing doesn't work anymore

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by dartharva »

llm_nerd wrote: post #205
fridder wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there is an alternative to the m-series that lets me keep the battery life I'd jump ship. The m-series chips are just so good though

You'd jump ship because of the .0 release of Tahoe? Really? People get a little hysterical about things like this. You know you don't have to upgrade to it, right? They'll support Sequoia for years, and you could even be running Sonoma if you wanted. The response to this design is likely to be so overwhelmingly negative that we'll see a lot of subtle retreats in the point releases going forward, and when the macOS 7…

Except that it's impossible to downgrade to previous MacOS versions on new Mac computers

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by joduplessis »

If Apple stopped at the over-saturated/rounded-corners, it would have been a decent iteration on something established (and very much not broken). I realise the transparent icons are optional - but it now looks like a budget Android theme.

Re: macOS Tahoe

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Post by rd07 »

This is unrelated, but in Indonesian language, "Tahoe" is a word for tofu but spelled the old way
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