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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.
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. . .
everyone I know wants to wait a month or two until the bugs are fixed but, they believe it will be huge improvement.
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.
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!
I’m a longtime Mac user, but I just refuse to upgrade into the cloud, accept intrusive biometrics, dumpt my trusted and reliable application for apps I don’t even have available without a wifi connection, etc...
Apple is turning all of their computers into an iPhone of various sizes, and I think it just sucks. It’s the deliberate destruction of something wonderful. I’m not 14, I’m not a bobble-headed liberal soccer mom, and no, you can’t have my freaking DNA, pulse, bloodpressure, database my organ systems, and turn my computer and private data into your scanned and cross-referenced property sold to both the NSA and every marketer on the planet while I am “allowed” to run a terminal just as limited as the one you threw a hammer at in 1984.
Forget it.
Linux here I come.
The OS is using less memory than before....around a Gb less.
The interface is more iPad-like. Simpler UI right off the bat. Folders and directory trees are so 1990s, and who wants that? You can still dig down to get to that awful crap if you think you need to, but you won’t. Mavericks is still Mac-flavored in feel and isn’t a massive change, just a measure of uniformity between all Apple OS’es.
Best functioning OS and UI out there right now, especially in continuity between OSX and iOS devices.
Microsoft Windows 11.2.1b Service Pack 3 will finally look like Mavericks sometime around Fall 2018, as long as you purchase the ‘Home Professional Extreme’ version (or higher) and not the ‘Ultimate Standard Basic’ version that Microsoft gives away free to Africa and India pre-installed on every ‘ZunePad PenTouch RT Plus+’.
Just downloaded... looking forward to it.