“This weekend was special because I finally got to install and try out macOS Sierra, the successor to Mac OS X El Capitan, and Apple’s latest and greatest for the Mac,” Jeffrey Mincey writes for Mac360. “If you don’t mind that the Mac has become a bit more iOS-like in recent years, you’re in for a treat. macOS Sierra looks like fun.”
“First, Siri comes to the Mac,” Mincey writes. “Siri searches well using Spotlight, handles iTunes, launches apps, and performs a few other tasks, but she won’t do a Starbucks run. Second, the Universal Clipboard. For those Mac users who have never used a clipboard manager, the Universal Clipboard – which simply makes whatever is on the Mac’s clipboard available on other Apple devices – will seem like a wonderful gift… Third, Messages on the Mac gets some of the love found with Messages on iPhone and iPad. That means plenty of iCandy with animations, built-in applications, stickers, even predictive emojis.”
“Apple has much more going on in macOS Sierra and as I continue to take it for a test drive I’ll provide updates,” Mincey writes. “macOS Sierra is shaping up to be one of the most fun – and less geeky – Mac OS upgrades in recent memory.”
Read about more fun macOS Sierra features in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: macOS Sierra certainly is fun, but remember that it’s a public beta, so don’t deploy it on your production machines.
Yes..fun..but pretty raw as far as a beta goes (meaning, don’t install unless willing to put up with slowness). Siri by itself makes this update worth it, imho (when officially released).
I installed macOS Sierra on a thunderbolt external SSD. It was very fast and capable. Someone will be dumb enough to install it on a Mac they they use every day with no backup. I can’t wait for the whining.
Yeah, but does it brick your mac like the IOS did to the iPad pro?
If it doesn’t, what FUN is that?
I have an iPad pro, and that update didn’t brick mine. It was fine. I don’t think it was a universal experience.
It actually runs very fast on my iMac 2013 I-5
It’s partitioned on a USB 3.0 hard drive and runs very smoothly with no hiccups as of this week
Actually, this first beta is very stable thus far, and I haven’t experienced any slowness on my machine. This was much different from El Capitan, which was very buggy at the beginning.
The downside is that there isn’t much to see yet of Sierra, it’s still pretty much El Capitan with a minimally running Siri and a couple of other changes. I suspect Apple will be rolling out the announced Sierra additions through the course of the summer.
I heard some remarks that the iOS 10 beta is remarkably stable. Some of the new features aren’t nailed down, but the stuff in v9 is still pretty solid.
MDN … not to worry about the “not for production machines” warning, since I’ve not even cleared El Capitan for that yet.
Yeah, so much ‘fun’ to buy a $300 watch to auto-unlock my Mac. Guess those Watch sales still aren’t doing all that well….
Or maybe it was just too cheap to have an always-on Siri do voice recognition- Siri, unlock.
Code is hard. Money is easier….
If it’s anything like iOS10, it’ll be amazingly stable once released.
Does universal clipboard still only allow one item at a time to be in the clipboard? If so, then it’s hardly a leap forward.