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redheeler

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Oct 17, 2014
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incredible discovery! in el capitan, you can now use a 2-button mouse! (am joking of course; just funny how many people are discovering "new' old features in 10.11...)
Well, one feature we can be sure is new in El Capitan is menu bar auto-hide. The menu bar can now be hidden and will appear on top of applications when the cursor is moved to the top of the screen. Screenshot:
Menu bar Atuo-hide.png

;)
 
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Ebenezum

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Is it just me or has Apple improved RAM management compared to Yosemite?

Previously on Yosemite Mac Mini 2014 with 8 GB of RAM Activity monitor would show Compressed memory between 2-4 GB and Swap used was between 3-4 GB. Memory pressure was Orange and occasionally Red. I had about 20 programs open simultaneously, including DevonThink Pro with 4 databases. Mini was quite slow.

With Public beta 3 in similar situation memory stays green and there is no Swap, Mini is clearly faster...
 

dyn

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Is it just me or has Apple improved RAM management compared to Yosemite?

Previously on Yosemite Mac Mini 2014 with 8 GB of RAM Activity monitor would show Compressed memory between 2-4 GB and Swap used was between 3-4 GB. Memory pressure was Orange and occasionally Red. I had about 20 programs open simultaneously, including DevonThink Pro with 4 databases. Mini was quite slow.

With Public beta 3 in similar situation memory stays green and there is no Swap, Mini is clearly faster...
How long have you been running the Mac mini (including sleeping it) with Yosemite vs El Capitan?
This also affects the figures in Activity Monitor. The longer you don't reboot the machine, the higher the amount of swap and memory usage will be.
 

Ebenezum

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How long have you been running the Mac mini (including sleeping it) with Yosemite vs El Capitan?
This also affects the figures in Activity Monitor. The longer you don't reboot the machine, the higher the amount of swap and memory usage will be.

I know. At this point I have time for testing mainly on weekends, rest of the week Mini is booted from Yosemite disk.

Unfortunately 10.11 isn't yet stable enough for work use, otherwise I would use it full time.
 

redheeler

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Oct 17, 2014
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What browser is that? And how do you have the old menu bar?... Confused.
Firefox with the Simple White theme. And the menu bar is like that because it's actually a screenshot of a hidden feature in Snow Leopard, which could be used to hide the menu bar and Dock while an app is in focus. :)
 

redheeler

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i want root back....effing a apple
If you're referring to rootless, it can be disabled.

Here's how to disable: Boot into Recovery (start up holding down down Command-R until the Apple logo appears), and select "Security Configuration" from "Utilities" on the menu bar. Uncheck "Enforce System Integrity Protection", click "Apply Configuration", click "Apply" on the resulting prompt, and restart. Rootless will now be disabled.
 
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dukebound85

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If you're referring to rootless, it can be disabled.

Here's how to disable: Boot into Recovery (start up holding down down Command-R until the Apple logo appears), and select "Security Configuration" from "Utilities" on the menu bar. Uncheck "Enforce System Integrity Protection", click "Apply Configuration", click "Apply" on the resulting prompt, and restart. Rootless will now be disabled.
Is there a way to do so without a recovery partition?
 
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