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Posted on 10/18/2014 9:33:39 PM PDT by This Just In
Good day. I downloaded the new and improved OS, OS X Yosemite. At first blush, there are some features I miss about Mavericks, but I need to waste.....I mean, spend more time with Yosemite. It's too early to say "yay" or "nay", or perhaps the conclusion won't be so black and white, unless you're a "I HATE! all things Apple...including those snobby Mac Users", of course.
What say you about OS X Yosemite? Any pointers/advice/recommendations by you techies out there?
The look and feel is slightly different: a little simpler, a little more playful/less serious. Default fonts are different, perhaps a little smaller.
Apple Mail is a huge improvement over Mavericks: it actually works!
It may be a little more responsive overall. My Late 2009 iMac became a new computer after I replaced the HD with and SSD. It may even be a little quicker now, though hard to tell for sure. Typical applications launch in 3 seconds. Computer boots in 15 seconds.
One arcane application needed to be updated.
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I’m liking it for the most part. The only thing that keeps throwing me for a loop is that the fullscreen button is now the green button on the top of the window. Granted, that makes a lot more sense than the button’s former job, which was mostly useless (toggle between the “standard” or “optimal” window state and the user state).
However, having to move the mouse to the opposite side of the window of what I am used to is throwing me off. I’ll get used to it. I got used to the window controls being on the left when I first switched from windows and I’ll get used to this.
You know, I had not noticed that! Thanks.
Thanks, Swordmaker
So far, I am liking what I am seeing. . . but like you, I have to spend some more time with it. I am finding it faster than Mavericks and I like the new flat look. I like the new icons but they took some getting used to.
Overall the fonts are more readable on my 2010 MacBook Air. I haven’t had a chance to look at my 2007 iMac 24” back at my house in Stockton. . .
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I do find it ironic that we have a totally different take on one aspect of the new OS X.
I find the new look a lot more serious and less playful. The change back to a 2d dock in particular makes the whole OS look and feel much more professional to me. I previously, had to find a program that changed the dock to 2d since I have always found the 3d dock too distracting.
Also, in making everything flat, including the buttons, they have removed the last traces of the “candy” look from previous versions of OS X.
Copy that. I like the interface, and the drop down Notification Center’s a great tool....if I can figure out how to actually add my calendar/events to it. Still reading through and learning the ropes there.
everyone I know wants to wait a month or two until the bugs are fixed but, they believe it will be huge improvement.
Ironically, I accidentally discovered it when in the process of trying to look up, “what happened to the fullscreen button in OS X Yosemite.” Safari is one of the few apps where I ever used the green button.
I had to get used to the new look, although some of the stock desktop images are better than the previous choices.
The more a mess with the Yosemite the more I’m appreciating the new features.
What are the advantages of Yosemite and Mavericks?
As an average computer user, I have used Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 7, and Internet Explorer for 16 years.
I’ve never had a serious problem.
I don’t understood the contempt that so many advanced users have for Microsoft, or the fascination they have for all things not Microsoft.
Thanks for mentioning that. I’ll review in a month.
I just noticed, there is now a setting for (third party) extensions in the system preferences that I don’t ever remember seeing before. I know Steve Jobs would have been unhappy with that, but even if I never use it I sure appreciate it.
I just installed it today on my 2011 17” MBP and so far, so good. I’ve got to change the WiFi/BT card to enable handoff, which I’m excited about. I do a lot of conference calls, so that’ll be a nice feature, if it works like they say.
I just picked up a 27” Thunderbolt Display and that I really like! Beautiful screen, plus an HD iSight camera and extra USB ports., plus a MagSafe power port for the MBP.
I’m also replacing the 750GB 5400 RPM HDD with a 500GB SSD, so the laptop should really scream. The 17” MBP is really more of a portable desktop. It’s getting a USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34, too, for an external drive. I’ll probably use it more than my 3.06 GHZ 12 core MacPro5,1 which is getting a new WiFi/BT card, too, as well as a 4 x 256gb SSD RAID drive for the system drive, plus four 3TB HDD’s for data, and 4 each SATA/3 and USB 3.0 ports.
That’s one nice thing about the Apple hardware, is that it doesn’t take complete replacement to refresh the performance like the Windoze system
do.
So far, so good. Different fonts, slightly different looks. Safari seems to run better. Great price...
I have downloaded/installed it.
No problems so far, as it seems smooth, and the new features look promising.
The “family-sharing” is a positive, and I love the new email feature, when linking websites gives those emailed the full content of what is being linked, not just the “clickable” link.
So much more to explore!
Just to keep the Mac haters happy - so you can find fault...
Doesn’t seem to recognize the old “junk email” lists, so you might have to go through labeling them all over again. But maybe I missed something?
This is not a major hassle for those of you who are relative newcomers to the Mac world. But some of us have had our email addy out there since the beginning of internet time, and these have passed around to whoever wants to sell us something.
We are constantly sent many daily emails exhorting us to buy whatever “junk” will keep them in groceries. It is a pain to have to click on that little “down thumb” again, after we thought we once doomed them to starvation, or peanut butter on crackers - when we didn’t buy whatever they thought we just couldn’t resist.
But, so be it. Everyone wants to drown us in “junk”. Why were we ever so naive to think we would be protected from hustlers invading our emails? If stuffing our snail mail p.o.boxes no longer works, maybe we will salivate for the same old cr@p in our email boxes, or so they hope and pray
I love that “down thumb” icon, for it makes me feel so powerful to send them to “junk” in a microsecond - even better than throwing the snail mail junk in the public wastebasket, right after taking it out of my P.O. box.
And, it is so “green”! Al Gore must just love it!
It’s not why I moved to a Mac, but my biggest beef with MS/Windows has long been the system registry model for storing settings for almost everything. The registry file inevitably bloats to enormous proportions (often, even with registry cleaners) and many people who aren’t aware of that are fooled into thinking they need a new computer when all the really need is to clean up the mess (unfortunately, the easiest way to do that is usually to back up essential files and reformat the HD).
Not every developer follows the guidelines on this, but these settings are generally stored in the application package (OS X applications are packages into what appears to be one file) and don’t get loaded into memory or slow your computer down if you aren’t using an app.
The reason I switched over was color management. I’m a photographer and at the time I switched, proper color management was a nightmare in windows.
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