I installed 10.9 last night on my Mac Pro5,1 12-Core w/ 2 27" LED LCD's. Noticed the following:
- Menubar switches between transparencies depending on which display is active
- Moving the mouse to the bottom of the other display moves the Dock to that display
- Selecting Displays in System Preferences now lists which number display corresponds to the open preference windows
Additionally:
- Much faster system, feels akin to what Snow Leopard was to Leopard
- Love the focus on power and graphics
- OpenGL 4.0 and 4.1 are 100% active now! 4.2 is 16%, that's a major leap for Apple in OS X.
- When closing an open app's window, the indicator light dims, reappears when another window is open even though the app is running in the background.
- Energy Saver now has custom scheduling for shutdown and startup times
- Network: NAS access via Finder MUCH faster
- Screen Sharing is improved in speed, less wireless access difficulties
- Interestingly, images appear brighter on my displays. Most likely a placebo effect, yet even in Photoshop CS6 editing is faster, more detailed
- New App Store preference pane allows for custom control over OS X app updates, even states my "computer is set to received pre-release Software Update seeds"
- Keyboard - short hand text support, example "wt" brings up "What Time?" in a dialog box akin to iOS, pressing spacebar accepts it, or reject it with the "x". You can add/remove presets.
Some bugs:
- iStat Menu's and a few third party app's don't work well with 10.9's dual menubar.
- iCloud accounts are a bit dodgy with passwords (I have a .Mac account along with new iCloud, everything worked fine on 10.8.4, however messages and email password acceptance is intermittent).
- My overall performance score is ~150-200 points lower in 64-bit Geekbench than 10.8 (which is odd)
- Contacts is almost too flat. The vertical lines separating sections is very faint as is the lighter grey labeling.
- Windows boot volume not shown in "Startup Disk", although Paragon NFTS and ExtFS are reading corresponding non-OS X HFS volumes
Things I'd still like to have:
- Tabbed Finder browsing is good, would have liked multi-touch support for Finder as I used BetterTouchTool to navigate through Finder with 2-finger gestures and more
- Sidebar icon colors. Used XftraFinder for such as well as cut/copy/paste/move, dual sidebars, etc
- Customization of how the Menubar and Dock operate between displays (the menubar is much more transparent on the inactive display, would be nice to modify it)
- Menubar switches between transparencies depending on which display is active
- Moving the mouse to the bottom of the other display moves the Dock to that display
- Selecting Displays in System Preferences now lists which number display corresponds to the open preference windows
Additionally:
- Much faster system, feels akin to what Snow Leopard was to Leopard
- Love the focus on power and graphics
- OpenGL 4.0 and 4.1 are 100% active now! 4.2 is 16%, that's a major leap for Apple in OS X.
- When closing an open app's window, the indicator light dims, reappears when another window is open even though the app is running in the background.
- Energy Saver now has custom scheduling for shutdown and startup times
- Network: NAS access via Finder MUCH faster
- Screen Sharing is improved in speed, less wireless access difficulties
- Interestingly, images appear brighter on my displays. Most likely a placebo effect, yet even in Photoshop CS6 editing is faster, more detailed
- New App Store preference pane allows for custom control over OS X app updates, even states my "computer is set to received pre-release Software Update seeds"
- Keyboard - short hand text support, example "wt" brings up "What Time?" in a dialog box akin to iOS, pressing spacebar accepts it, or reject it with the "x". You can add/remove presets.
Some bugs:
- iStat Menu's and a few third party app's don't work well with 10.9's dual menubar.
- iCloud accounts are a bit dodgy with passwords (I have a .Mac account along with new iCloud, everything worked fine on 10.8.4, however messages and email password acceptance is intermittent).
- My overall performance score is ~150-200 points lower in 64-bit Geekbench than 10.8 (which is odd)
- Contacts is almost too flat. The vertical lines separating sections is very faint as is the lighter grey labeling.
- Windows boot volume not shown in "Startup Disk", although Paragon NFTS and ExtFS are reading corresponding non-OS X HFS volumes
Things I'd still like to have:
- Tabbed Finder browsing is good, would have liked multi-touch support for Finder as I used BetterTouchTool to navigate through Finder with 2-finger gestures and more
- Sidebar icon colors. Used XftraFinder for such as well as cut/copy/paste/move, dual sidebars, etc
- Customization of how the Menubar and Dock operate between displays (the menubar is much more transparent on the inactive display, would be nice to modify it)
