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What do you think about OS X 10.10?

  • Love both the new UI and the new features

    Votes: 314 71.9%
  • Love the new UI, unimpressed with the new features

    Votes: 19 4.3%
  • Hate the new UI, impressed with the new features

    Votes: 46 10.5%
  • Hate the new UI, no interesting new features

    Votes: 33 7.6%
  • Indifferent

    Votes: 25 5.7%

  • Total voters
    437

OrangeCrush980

macrumors newbie
Jun 10, 2013
24
12
Great, now Mavericks is the new Snow Leopard. Except Mavericks isn't even that good. I'm this close to just going over to Windows 7.
 

tann

macrumors 68000
Apr 15, 2010
1,944
813
UK
I think it's great - especially love the AirDrop iOS and other iOS integration (SMS etc).

Something I've been hoping for for a while!
 

roadbloc

macrumors G3
Aug 24, 2009
8,784
215
UK
The new features are great. The new look however... yuck. It looks like something you'd see in a children's toy shop. The professional shine of OS X I loved has gone.
 

maflynn

macrumors Haswell
May 3, 2009
73,682
43,740
I think the new UI is nice, I'll have try it to really see how it fits. I don't see that many features though. Search and continuity. I'm not entirely in the apple ecosystem so the latter doesn't mean too much to me. Search looks ok, I guess.
 

RichardC300

macrumors 65816
Sep 27, 2012
1,243
116
I like the new look, and the whole continuity feature between iOS and Mac is neat, but it doesn't really offer me much else. Was not as impressed as I was last year.
 

clukas

macrumors 6502a
May 3, 2010
990
401
Love everything that was announced today. Am looking forward to installing the beta shortly.
 

Cougarcat

macrumors 604
Sep 19, 2003
7,766
2,553
I like most of it. Especially continuity. They went nuts with the transparency, though. I think it'll look terrible with lots of overlapping windows onscreen. Reminds me of 10.0 in that respect. Hopefully they will dial it down before the release. Luckily the icons did not inherit iOS 7's ugliness, except for maybe the folders.

Dark Mode could be nice...does anyone know if it affects windows in general and not just the menu? I wonder if it's the new interface's "Graphite," and makes the stoplight buttons grey...
 

mmomega

macrumors demi-god
Dec 30, 2009
3,888
2,101
DFW, TX
From what I saw at the keynote I am a little excited. That may change once I get my hands on it or I may like it more, time will tell.
A lot of the features, to me, are very welcome.

The new look, it's fine, that I'm not so picky about. As long as my home OS works as it should, does what I want/need it to do then I will be more than happy.

I probably wouldn't have even noticed the semi transparent look as much if they hadn't have pointed it out so many times. I'm used to OS's with this, it doesn't bother me one way or the other.
 

2984839

Cancelled
Apr 19, 2014
2,114
2,241
None of the features are useful or interesting to me. I don't care about UI in general, so I'm indifferent to that change. Several features make me specifically not want it, such as searching the internet with Spotlight due to privacy reasons.
 

MistrSynistr

macrumors 68000
May 15, 2014
1,718
2,128
I think the new design looks amazing, and modern.

I didn't "mind" the old one, but it does look super dated with that metal gimmick.

This pops and wows, something you can have on your screen and be proud of...A PC user who comes over unfamiliar with OS or MAC I seriously believe would be wowed by it and ask what it is.
 

Theclamshell

macrumors 68030
Mar 2, 2009
2,741
3
I like the flat design a lot but if there is no code to permanently disable the stupid notification center I won't use it. I really dislike having mobile elements like that on my desktop.
 

MARKBOARD

macrumors newbie
Mar 21, 2014
29
2
New UI well isn't a big deal for me since first rumors but new features are worthy :apple:

Dark mode is available :) so nice looking for me :)
 

Jyby

Suspended
May 31, 2011
720
617
I guess the days of waiting a few years for a new OS are gone...

Its sad because the quality of these releases will suffer. Think of all of the Apple employees who have to redesign something every year.

Wouldn't it be better for Apple to do something really big and blow our socks off like they used to?
 

LordQ

Suspended
Sep 22, 2012
3,582
5,653
Beautiful new UI and great features built up on Mavericks' amazingness. Love it!
 
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