10.9 All the Little Things!

[Sky Blue]

Some observations on an hour with Mavericks:

Grey linen has gone, some places like the login screen and notification center look plain without it.
Font used in the Finder looks a little different
- Mail is a new version (v7), but doesn’t seem any different other than a new popup on launch to add an account.
The dock looks super ugly on the left side compared to 10.8.
NC Do Not Disturb can be set from System Prefs and can be set to a timer like iOS
Game Center is still uggo
- Notes looks weird without the yellow lined paper
- Network Utility seems to have disappeared from utilities

System Prefs
Print and Scan is now Printers and Scanners
Mail, Contacts and calendars is now Internet Accounts and includes LinkedIn
Software Update is now App Store
Dictation can be set to offline use and live feedback


Seems pretty stable, i'm sure it'll evolve during the beta process.

 

[MacReloaded]

Launchpad fade-in and fade-out has changed.

 

[Drew017]

Safari seems a lot more responsive and I think that swipe-back-to-navigate gesture has (finally ) been fixed.

 

[Nero Wolfe]

Some observations on an hour with Mavericks:

The dock looks super ugly on the left side compared to 10.8.

It's basically the same dock as in Tiger, isn't it? The corners are rounded off but otherwise it looks very similar. I guess it's a flat version of the bottom dock. I really like it myself. I never liked that black one.

 

[Drew017]

Launchpad fade-in and fade-out has changed.

Yes and I seems to be a lot more responsive to the gesture (IMO)

 

[tmanto02]

They made notes look terrible and left game centre looking terrible! But damn finder will be handy...

 

[Galaxas0]

Do you even know what linen is? -.-

My bad, un-leather, but I did mean the same thing

 

[Nero Wolfe]

So running 10.9...

On 10.8 my VRAM is 512mb, which I thought was the limit on Intel with integrated graphics and 8gb RAM. But on 10.9 is shows this:



1GB VRAM. Don't know if it's a mistake or what but it's interesting anyway...

 

[MacReloaded]

So running 10.9...

On 10.8 my VRAM is 512mb, which I thought was the limit on Intel with integrated graphics and 8gb RAM. But on 10.9 is shows this:

[url=http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z116/langbj/huh.png]Image[/URL]

1GB VRAM. Don't know if it's a mistake or what but it's interesting anyway...

Can confirm the same VRAM with my rMBP.

 

[Galaxas0]

Same with my Mac Mini.

 

[justperry]

I noticed that the power button on my MacBook Air no longer displays the menu when it's simply pressed down... instead it puts the computer to sleep. I have to hold it for a few seconds to get the menu.

I got this behaviour on my 2012 Mini a few months ago, you most likely can change this in Energy Saver Pref. Pane. (Allow power button to put the computer to sleep)


I don't like some of the changes from what I see here in screenshots, for instance, ugly Dock on L/R, Activity Monitor too plain (And where is the processes button?).

Hope they don't do the same thing as with iOS, man, that is Crap, but I am fine with my 3GS.

 

[jakesaunders27]

yeah same with my 11 inch air, and do any other air users think the dock looks much more colourful almost like they have tweaked the contrast a bit?

 

[MacReloaded]

yeah same with my 11 inch air, and do any other air users think the dock looks much more colourful almost like they have tweaked the contrast a bit?

I actually noticed the same thing on my iMac during the first login after installation.

 

[C64]

Safari seems a lot more responsive and I think that swipe-back-to-navigate gesture has (finally ) been fixed.

Seriously, I could do with just that

No 2D Dock on bottom, but yes on the sides. I looked through the plist and attempted running strings on it but didn't come up with anything.

You can probably make it 2D by setting a boolean via the Terminal. In ML it's:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

2D dock looks good btw.

 

[Tmelon]

Anyone else still unable to download the dictation file?

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

So running 10.9...

On 10.8 my VRAM is 512mb, which I thought was the limit on Intel with integrated graphics and 8gb RAM. But on 10.9 is shows this:

[url=http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z116/langbj/huh.png]Image[/URL]

1GB VRAM. Don't know if it's a mistake or what but it's interesting anyway...

Because your Ivy Bridge 4000 IGP supports OpenGL 4.1 and OpenCL 1.2 under OS X 10.9, and you have obviously enough RAM (with compression).

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yeah same with my 11 inch air, and do any other air users think the dock looks much more colourful almost like they have tweaked the contrast a bit?

Apple improved the color management in OS X 10.9. This was necessary after the 10.8 ColorSync-fiasco.

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what the heck is happening with the doc guys? please let us know

Doc Emmet Brown replies:
I'm doing well.

 

[w0lf]

Anyone else still unable to download the dictation file?

Ditto. I get a message saying it's not available.

 

[Cougarcat]

Seriously, I could do with just that



You can probably make it 2D by setting a boolean via the Terminal. In ML it's:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

He said the command doesn't work anymore.

 

[ThisIsNotMe]

Interesting how Calendar works.
If you block out travel time it doesn't sync to non 10.9 calendars. Haven't had the chance to check out iOS 7 but it doesn't block it out on 10.8 or iOS 6.

Wonder if that travel time is dynamic with traffic or not. Hrm.

 

[D A]

Noticed that the clock now shows AM / PM in lowercase letters when I booted. Is there an option to show it uppercase/lowercase letters in previous versions of OS X or is this new?

 

[jakesaunders27]

Noticed that the clock now shows AM / PM in lowercase letters when I booted. Is there an option to show it uppercase/lowercase letters in previous versions of OS X or is this new?

new i havent seen that before and i noticed as well i dont like it!

 

[0000757]

I care a lot about Safari.

How well has Safari improved?

 

[vickysud]

I care a lot about Safari.

How well has Safari improved?

improved a lot i mean seriously a lot feels snappier than chrome / compared to ML its a positive.

 

[jakesaunders27]

I care a lot about Safari.

How well has Safari improved?

it has smoother scrolling, new tab screen has changed and that new shared links thing that brings links in from twitter

 

[Ddyracer]

it has smoother scrolling, new tab screen has changed and that new shared links thing that brings links in from twitter

Please can hou share the new tab ui?