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OS X 10.11 All The Little Things!
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After all the ups and downs, likes and dislikes, loving an hating I have observed concerning Yosemite. Maybe when El Capitan comes on board things will all settle down and we can start having good things to say about Mac Computing again.
I'm pretty excited to try out El Capitan when the Beta is released... but I don't think El Cap will satisfy those who hate Yosemite because of the UI changes. However you can always use an app like flavors 2 to customise the UI theme, including the old 3d look, aqua and even dark theme.
I quite like the fresh look introduced in Yosemite, but what I am really looking forward to is the faster performance and fine tuning.
No, but is that even a mistake? You drag it to the trash to eject. The logo becomes an eject button, nothing confusing about it.
Preview in 10.11 now smooths a zoomed-in image at any zoom level. Yuk. Often times I prefer to see clean pixels.
If you look closely, there are also some subtle changes in the toolbar.
If you look closely, there are also some subtle changes in the toolbar.
I've gotten that a time or two, along with
. However, it works fine after I hit "Continue".
OS X still lacks behind in some areas. Metal is a great addition, but is only supposed to work on newer Macs with modern graphic cards. This came a bit of a surprise to me. In addition, OS X still has no good OpenGL support. Even Linux has better implementation of some aspects of OpenGL... There are other areas too. HFS+ for example, or color depth as mentioned before. The changes go to the right direction, but not far enough to be technically competitive with Windows, yet.
With Intel integrated GPUs, there is 512 MB of dedicated video memory, however when you have enough system memory installed, it will use some of that as video memory as well.
The reason you are already seeing 1536 MB, is because the Intel HD 5000 and newer have always had 1536 MB of video memory in OS X, but Intel HD 4000 has been stuck with only 1 GB until now.
Ugh. Is there a way to turn this off? I do screen design stuff, working with pixel-perfect graphics, so I need to be able to see the pixels.
I am not sure, but I think this is also new: Safari now has a key icon in password fields when they are active. If you press it, a similar menu to as in the older version appears, only that in Yosemite you had to press keyboard down key to show it. The second dialogue window appears when you select other passwords.
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When you delete from Photos for the first time, it tells you that photos have been moved to recently deleted.
I still wish that could be disabled. The number of steps it takes to actually delete photos is so irritating.
Secondary click, choose delete, confirm that delete (as if choosing it wasn't enough), navigate to recently deleted (that I can't disable), and remove all from recently deleted (because clearly I was kidding when I confirmed the deletion after choosing it). Why so many steps? Whatever happened to having a 'never bother me again, I'm aware how to use a computer.' checkbox? This may not be a huge deal, but there's no reason to be needlessly increasing complexity for basic operations. The same goes for removing literally anything on iOS.
Someone help me out here. Is it safe to go to DP yet for El Capitan, or better to wait the week for the next beta (if it's on the same schedule as last year). I did the Yosemite preview last year, and having thoughts about El Capitan preview, but unsure whether to move up or not. It will be on my main Mac, no partitioning.
My mac specs are in my signature. It's the 256gb, i5, 13 inch model.
Cheers.
My mac specs are in my signature. It's the 256gb, i5, 13 inch model.
Cheers.
I've found it incredibly stable to use over the last week, on a rMBP with your quoted specs. Runs really well too. It's a very nice surprise compared the first few Yosemite betas which I personally could not tolerate as a daily driver. You may find some incompatible apps, however I have not as yet.
Thanks for the response. I bit the bullet and updated, and thus far so good! Found two incompatible apps but no biggie with those ones! Did fix one of them in the end. Can't wait for the next beta.
If you delete with the ⌘⌫ key combination, it does not display the confirmation requester at least.
Safe isn't the right word. More stable, perhaps. I wouldn't recommend using the beta without making backups and accepting the chance of a necessary downgrade, with loss of some data in the meantime.
No, but if you go into fullscreen while viewing a photo in Photos.app most of the UI goes into a dark mode, including the right-click menu, so the framework for such a thing definitely does exist.
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Hmm. That's interesting. There I have no doubt that Apple will integrate this into the system-wide dark mode. I mean, they have no reason not to.