“As the name suggests, macOS High Sierra is a refinement update,” Khamosh Pathak writes for iPhone Hacks.
“It’s on the same lines as Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion. While there are new features and newer technologies, the main focus in on improving performance, fixing bugs and refining features,” Pathak writes. “And right now, that actually sounds like a great thing. The Mac is a professional tool and more stable the OS, the better it is for the pro users.”
Pathak writes, “Still, there’s a lot of new exciting stuff and surely a lot of small changes and improvements!”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Pathak has Apple File System as No.1 and that’s certainyl correct. Finally, the Mac has a modern, future-proof file system!
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If only hardware improvements matched software improvements. Wouldn’t that be great!
Not being a pro user, my number one improvement would be auto play blocking
Maybe the new OS will provide NVMe support for prior generation Mac Pros.
Nah, that would be too decent of Apple…
#7 is #1 on my list – iMessages same on all devices!
So sad, Apple’s smb files transfers are 50% slower than windows 10 running on Bootcamp. Hopefully High Sierra will fix this.