“Right on schedule, Apple has released the sixth preview of the upcoming OS X Yosemite to developers today,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac.
“This new seed comes two weeks following the previous release, and it likely continues to bring performance enhancements, interface tweaks, and bug fixes,” Gurman reports. “The release version of Yosemite is currently scheduled for the later half of October, and it will ship separately from iOS 8, which is not seeing a new beta today.”
Among the changes:
• All icons in System Preferences redesigned
• Several new wallpapers from which to choose
• New charging icon in the Menu Bar
• New Safari Preferences icons as well.
More new items and screenshots in the full article here.
I am not sure if this is good news or bad news that the top 3 highlights of the release are icons and wallpapers
My MBA has been locking up when waking up under Preview 5. Hope that’s fixed. Safari also crashes a bit.
Otherwise I’m enjoying Yosemite. I wish I had another iPhone to test iOS 8. Its the two together that’s really the kicker.
Damn. Is there anyway we are going to be able to work over those sissy icons so that every screen doesn’t look like a girl’s computer?
Pastels and easter eggs. I think I’m going to gag myself. Not fatally, because I know how much I would be missed around here.
The problem is not that the “news” is about icons and wallpapers. It’s that the people reporting these releases have not bothered to look beyond the superficial. I’ve been testing Yosemite since it was first released to developers. What’s important to me is stability and usability. Both of these things improved greatly over the last two months. So much so that I was tempted at some point to install Yosemite onto a production system. I head myself back after reading some forum posts that mentioned that some of the apps I need for my daily work would not work on Yosemite yet. For existing Mac users, this upgrade will be huge. It will go beyond new icons and wallpapers. For people who are not yet Mac users, Yosemite will offer another opportunity to see the difference between an operating system made by a company that truly cares about the user experience and operating systems made by companies who are only focused on market share, and just good enough products. It’s a foregone conclusion that Windows 8 is crap. Android is crap. OS X and iOS are not perfect, and there are some features and characteristics that annoy the hell out of me, but Apple has demonstrated many times that they genuinely care about creating a great experience.
I hate it when there are typos in my posts and I can’t go back to correct them!!!!!
Has it – at long last – restored the ability to search SMB drives on the network? That disappeared in Mountain Lion and has not yet returned, making Mac frustratingly useless in a mixed computer network environment.