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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by nu11p01n73R »

mullsork wrote: post #7

Sort of off topic but what has happened to the web design team at Apple? Their landing pages used to be extremely pleasant to read but by now I often struggle to read their headlines. The blurred background with text on top is not easy on my eyes at all. Perhaps my eyes are starting to go bad... Their page for the new iPhone had the same issues. In my opinion their web designs has gone down hill this year.

Took some time to realise that "Available 9.25" meant 25th September. The box looked more like a disabled button.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by robin_reala »

pantulis wrote: post #11

What about performance on older machines? My mid-2010 MBP is still supported, but I'm afraid of switching if performance takes a hit. It has dual 512GB SSDs and 8GB RAM, so it runs Sierra with more or less success, but it's usable. With all this filesystem level changes, does High Sierra have more hardware requirements than Sierra?

Same hardware requirements as Sierra: https://www.apple.com/macos/how-to-upgrade/#hardware-require...

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by mrmondo »

The biggest change I’ve noticed since testing each of the betas and now running the final release is the significant decrease in interface / UI latency, it feels significantly faster to use and is a welcome upgrade.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by robin_reala »

andy_ppp wrote: post #12
cjsuk wrote: post #2

Does anyone know of any issues with this before I press the button?

Homebrew often seems to have important packages break with each major macOS release. I’ll let you go first, anyone know of anything at the moment?

Have a look and see if any of the packages you use regularly are on their 10.13 issues list: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/18493

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by aneidon »

4ad wrote: post #49
aneidon wrote: post #39

The biggest change I’m hoping for (but not expecting) is the ability to sort shared iCloud albums by time taken, not time added to the album. Currently they’re all but useless for something like a shared album from a vacation, because it groups photos by when family members upload them. I tend to upload photos at the end of each day, but other family members who were shooting on a normal camera waited until the end o…

I'll settle for when shared iCloud albums support a decent size and resolution. iCloud Photos is frustratingly bad, but I don't want to buy into other cloud ecosystem, like Google's. Does anybody know if it's possible to replicate the integration with Photos on both iOS and macOS, so I could write my own sync thing?

Not aware of those issues, what exactly are the limitations?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by smcleod »

nu11p01n73R wrote: post #51
mullsork wrote: post #7

Sort of off topic but what has happened to the web design team at Apple? Their landing pages used to be extremely pleasant to read but by now I often struggle to read their headlines. The blurred background with text on top is not easy on my eyes at all. Perhaps my eyes are starting to go bad... Their page for the new iPhone had the same issues. In my opinion their web designs has gone down hill this year.

Took some time to realise that "Available 9.25" meant 25th September. The box looked more like a disabled button.

Yes, American dates are confusing and illogical at the best of times, I wish America would standardise on the international ascending order date style of 25/09/2017.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by petercooper »

aneidon wrote: post #39

The biggest change I’m hoping for (but not expecting) is the ability to sort shared iCloud albums by time taken, not time added to the album. Currently they’re all but useless for something like a shared album from a vacation, because it groups photos by when family members upload them. I tend to upload photos at the end of each day, but other family members who were shooting on a normal camera waited until the end o…

The biggest change I’m hoping for (but not expecting) is the ability to sort shared iCloud albums by time taken, not time added to the album.

This isn't a criticism of you, but when a major OS update comes down to trivia like this, it seems a bit of a shame to me. I remember the 10.2-10.6 releases and just how significant they were and it feels like rearranging deck chairs in comparison nowadays.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by mrmondo »

fleetfox wrote: post #36

"Metal 2" Is that a new thing or just an incremental update? What is their position on Vulkan?

As per my other comment, I believe Metal 2 is likely the cause of the lower latency resulting in a much faster UI.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by petercooper »

smcleod wrote: post #57
nu11p01n73R wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Took some time to realise that "Available 9.25" meant 25th September. The box looked more like a disabled button.

Yes, American dates are confusing and illogical at the best of times, I wish America would standardise on the international ascending order date style of 25/09/2017.

I hope we'd all standardize on the opposite: 2017-09-25.. it sorts properly when used in file and document names :-)
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