“Apple will introduce OS X 10.10 Yosemite this Fall, but you won’t need to wait that long to put the beta version of the software through its paces — you don’t even need a spare Mac,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “This short and painless guide will help you get your Mac ready for Apple’s public beta.
“Apple will make Yosemite available to the first million people who join its OS X Beta Seed Program,” Evans writes. “Joining the scheme adds a new Beta Access Utility to your Mac which you use to download the OS. It also has a Feedback Assistant app preloaded in the Dock for comments and bug reports.”
“You do not want to install the Yosemite beta on your primary Mac — it’s beta software and that means problems are possible and you will not want to lose your data,” Evans writes. “All you need to do is partition your drive if you don’t have a second Mac and still want to explore Yosemite.”
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As a developer… Mission Accomplished.
No one is ever ready for Yosemite!
“Yosemite” sounded weird at first but now I really like it!
And I hope you are pronouncing it the right way!
Why, everyone knows its pronounced Yos — e—- mite !!
So will junk mail now be known as Yosemite Spam?
Would like to know if we can install it in a virtual machine?
An excuse for a paid update to Parallels 10…
Given the lack of replaceable HDs in MBPros, I wonder if the coming version of BootCamp will allow more than 2 partitions, MacOSX and Windows.
If Apple allows 3 partitions, it could do a lot for people who want an onboard clone or a separate Home folder.