Today after playing with the big cat on my MBP, I was frustrated by so many pesky details (especially in respect to multitouch) that I feel better posting this.
- Quicktime Player X no longer saves Quicktime movies (it only exports, which requires transcoding)
No input on this as I don't use QuickTime Player X.
- Lots a Quicktime movies that used to play well in Quicktime X now require Quicktime 7. (an no, it's not a question of codec, it seems that QT player X can no longer play movies that were edited in QT 7 pro. Edited, not just trimmed. Trimmed movies still work).
Again, no input on this.
- The 4-finger swipe upward no longer shows the desktop (instead, you need to perform the near-impossible 4-finger pinch™).
4-finger pinch is easy. Put your index, middle, ring and pinkie finger on the trackpad all next to each other and then put them all completely straight right next to each other so it's like they're attached. Boom easy.
- Finder no longer supports pinch to zoom (makes icons bigger).
I always have hated this. I'd always do the 3-finger swipe to the sides to go back and forth between folders and sometimes instead of going back and forth between folders, it'd increase the size of folders to an extremely big size which is completely annoying. This is just my opinion, though.
- Same as above for Safari in coverflow mode (browsing history or bookmarks).
I don't use Safari so I dunno about this one.
- The path bar (Finder) doesn't show automatically in search windows. It's either always on or off.
Don't really know what you mean by this.
- If you perform a 4-finger swipe and hold your fingers on the trackpad, removing them after a while won't restore the previous state.
I never knew this could even be done until I read this post lol. Not a problem for me as I never use it, but again, that's just my opinion.
And in many (most) areas, performance has regressed: scrolling (especially in Safari, Mail and Preview), zooming (preview), video thumbnail generation in the Finder and CPU usage in Quicklook, shutdown time and RAM usage (what a memory hog
). Hopefully, these issues will be fixed in the final release.
That's just because it's the beta. You know Apple would never release a slow, laggy, memory hogging operating system.