Indeed its missing and it is still not perfect on 3440x1440 but now WAY more usable then before.
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Indeed its missing and it is still not perfect on 3440x1440 but now WAY more usable then before.
Yes, that's still present, and the same as the one on Catalina:
They have a new SF symbol for a "PC" though, which is more modern
Given that Big Sur has rounded corners that seem to fit nicely on iPad's screen (
), is this any indication that future MacBook will adopt a rounded corner display or it probably doesn’t mean anything?
That picture predates Catalina by quite a bit of time
coconutBattery is calling my OS version 'macOS Mountain Catalina'
It’s been there since 2007. Was introduced with Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. I loved it back then, but now I think they should update it with the Windows 10 bluescreen on a flatscreen monitor.
Can someone confirm whether it is possible again to display both columns for sender and recipient at the same time?
It has been really annoying that in Catalina, it was only possible to display either sender or recipient.
Thanks!
I use 3840x1080 monitor. For me, Big Sur default to render desktop at 7680x2160, then downsample to 3840x1080. This will make the fonts looks so much better.
I always do this since I use this monitor, but in High Sierra and Mojave, it can only be done via 3rd party software. Now, it's default.
This screen capture comparison shows the difference with HiDPI rendering.
Of course, the change in the font itself also helps. But not as much as HiDPI. The font smoothing (anti aliasing) really make font hard to read in non HiDPI environment.
I liked the cat names, but I think they ran out good cat names....They didn’t use my "Reindeer Kitty" you see to the left.
Could you elaborate this more about using higher resolution than what monitor is specified?
It seems like Apple finally updated Time Machine to work on APFS volumes
9to5mac.com
Would love to know if they are using snapshots on the volume or how they are doing it, snapshots would be the most easy way to do it I guess. Or did APFS gain hard link support in 11.0?
Apple adds APFS encrypted drive support to iOS 14 and APFS Time Machine backups to macOS Big Sur - 9to5Mac
Apple didn’t say much about what’s new in the Files app with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 during the WWDC...
9to5mac.com
Would love to know if they are using snapshots on the volume or how they are doing it, snapshots would be the most easy way to do it I guess. Or did APFS gain hard link support in 11.0?
Yes, that's still present, and the same as the one on Catalina:
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They have a new SF symbol for a "PC" though, which is more modern
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This has always been one of my favorite MacOS easter eggs, the bluescreened PC. I'm glad they kept it around in some form!
How the heck do you have a 1080 Ti running? I assume the machine is still running High Sierra before Web Driver support was dropped?
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That capture is from High Sierra indeed. I am now running Radeon VII. And I am too lazy to make another screen capture / comparison to illustrate difference of fonts rendering between HiDPI and non HiDPI environment.
The following capture was created during the testing of RadeonBoost. But anyway, it also captured the resolution’s info. In my case, that’s defaulted to use HiDPI rendering.
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There is no absolute relationship between rendering resolution, and the “UI looks like” resolution, and the actual monitor's resolution.
For macOS, the HiDPI mode always render at 2x the UI looks like resolution.
e.g. For 3840x2160 monitor.
If you choose 3840x2160 in system preferences, that means everything render at 1x scale in 3840x2160. For normal size monitor (e.g. 27"), everything will be very small to read.
If you choose 1920x1080 HiDPI, that means everything still render at 3840x2160, however, in 2x scale. Everything will looks 2x bigger. Therefore, you are still fully utilise all 3840x2160 pixels on the monitor, but the "UI looks like" 1920x1080 (in size).
If you choose 2560x1440 HiDPI, then everything will be render at 5120x2880, then down scale back to 3840x2160. You are still fully utilise all 3840x2160 pixels. But the UI looks like 2560x1440, and the macOS actually render the desktop at 5120x2880, which is higher than your monitor's resolution.
In fact, you can also choose 3840x2160 HiDPI. So that the GPU render everything at 8k, then downsample back to 4k, and display at 4k. In most cases, this is just a waste of the resources (e.g. VRAM). But if you connect the Mac to a large size 4k TV (e.g. 84”), this setting can be useful to make the images (e.g. fonts) looks better.
In my case, the macOS render everything at 2x the monitor resolution. Then down scale back to the native resolution. This makes the fonts looks much better (also make the screen capture, and the "zoom in" image looks much better).
From memory, OSX has this function since Mavericks.
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