“Mac sales of some 4.4 million units hit a record in the last quarter,” Gene Steinberg writes for The Tech Night Owl. “So Yosemite will arrive at a time when the Mac is doing extremely well, better than at any time in the history of the platform. So this justifies spending lots of money to improve the user experience, which takes us to Yosemite.”
“I’ve been running the developer previews since very shortly after the June 2 release,” Steinberg writes. “Although there are still loads of bugs and incomplete features as of developer preview 4, the one that is reportedly being made available as the first public beta, Yosemite has become snappier… Forgetting the glitches and a few interface changes that I don’t like — such as killing the full title bars for sites in Safari except for the tabs — I never for a moment felt I wasn’t using a Mac. Understand that I have worked on Macs since the 1980s. So I have lived through every single release — sometimes as a beta tester. I have written books and articles covering many of those releases, so I think I have a fair understanding of the changes over the years.”
Steinberg writes, “So I feel safe in assuring you that, despite the flatter interface elements and the new typefaces, you can continue to use your Mac in much the same way as you do now without regret.”
Much more in the full article here.
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Snappier!
Anyone know if iBooks in Yosemite sees any improvements? Like being able to edit (or even *see* metadata? Or simply getting a count of books in a collection? Or search speed improvements? I have a fair number of books in iBooks, and the searching seems awfully slow, especially when compared to iTunes, in which I have many more songs and movies than I have books in iBooks.
Snappier is nice but i was wondering. Is it snappier on an older mac? I’ve got a mid 2011 27′ iMac that is more than overkill for me. Long ago I updated my G4 laptop from 10.4 to 10.5 and noticed a speed hit. 10.5 was great but I should have left the old machine be at 10.4.
My mac is an 2.7 intel core i5, with 12 gigs. Anyone know if things are the same/faster/slower?
Max out the RAM as much as possible.
I’ve got a 2007 iMac 2.8 GHz core two extreme with six gigs of RAM and I’ve got Yosemite running on an external drive and it runs beautifully.
If Apple doesn’t repair the bad GUI ideas in Yosemite, it’s going to be known in history as the ugliest version of any Mac OS ever. Not kidding. But setting aside the BAD GUI ideas, it’s going to be brilliant under the hood! So it’s got lots more wonderful than horrible.
My plan: Find some sort of shareware to UN-do the bad GUI ideas, something like Flavours.
Jony Ive: Was this minimalistic ugliness YOUR idea? It’s fine on iOS, NOT on OS X! You’ve gone too far.
I think Apple is making changes for changes sake. Honestly, and it’s sad. Why fix something that isn’t broken? Yes, to keep at the forefront of the “space race” of tech companies.
I’m downloading Yosemite beta onto my old 2007 MacBook Pro to see how she flies on that older hardware, and to test out the new user interface. Individual elements look good, but I hope the overall user interface colour scheme is not too “white and bright” to be usable, especially outdoors on a sunny day. That’s one of my main concerns.
I’m surprised that the Mac App Store hasn’t received more negative feedback. It was actually a precursor to the new “simplified” Yosemite look and layout. The toolbar in the Mac App Store app is a good example… and I’ve always hated it!