Yeah I know. As I said I was just kidding. Making light of the geekiness of most of us on these boards (including me). I run an IT shop, also. So I know how important it is to keeps standards, and predictable support models.
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Apple Asks Developers to Submit OS X Yosemite Apps to Mac App Store
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Yeah I know. As I said I was just kidding. Making light of the geekiness of most of us on these boards (including me). I run an IT shop, also. So I know how important it is to keeps standards, and predictable support models.
I never had any of these issues for one reason or another.. but.. You won't be installing an Operating System because of a stupid Mail app? I mean, REALLY? That's what holding you off?
And has been since Snow Leo? Wow...
I work in a corporation which uses products from a number of software vendors.
There are custom interfaces between many of the products. They weren't designed to work seamlessly with each other, but the interfaces make them work relatively well together. The problem is that upgrading any one of those products is a huge ordeal (financially, and for the staff that supports it). Every update to one product requires testing (and sometimes altering) all the interfaces to every other product it touches.
I don't want that hassle with my iPhone and Mac, which is why I use the Apple products whenever possible: Safari may not be the best browser, but it works, and the responsibility for making sure it works on the Mac and iPhone is with Apple. I use Apple's mail and mail client (rather than Gmail or Outlook) for the same reason.
Even with All Apple, All the Time, the are occasionally problems, but I don't have the same level of frustration I see others having with Outlook or Gmail or other third party products whenever Apple, Google, or Microsoft has an update.
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How does Yosemite look on a non retina display? I've been told the system wide font looks worse than the current Mavericks font.
How does Yosemite look on a non retina display? I've been told the system wide font looks worse than the current Mavericks font.
Took the plunge and clean installed Yosemite on my rMBP (my only Mac).
There's a trick where I deleted the entire Mavericks operating system (when booted from USB or recovery partition) and renamed my Users folder so I didn't have to format or back up/reinstall all my files. I simply have to move them back into my new Users folder. I wouldn't recommend doing this if you're not a Mac veteran and aren't comfortable with Terminal (there's lots of hidden system directories), but it was quick and worked a treat.
I also chose to reinstall all my apps since I'm OCD about keeping installer packages and App Store makes reinstalling Mac App Store apps easy, but this is probably more effort than it's worth for most. I just like a clean System whenever a new major release comes out.
There's a trick where I deleted the entire Mavericks operating system (when booted from USB or recovery partition) and renamed my Users folder so I didn't have to format or back up/reinstall all my files. I simply have to move them back into my new Users folder. I wouldn't recommend doing this if you're not a Mac veteran and aren't comfortable with Terminal (there's lots of hidden system directories), but it was quick and worked a treat.
I also chose to reinstall all my apps since I'm OCD about keeping installer packages and App Store makes reinstalling Mac App Store apps easy, but this is probably more effort than it's worth for most. I just like a clean System whenever a new major release comes out.
Yeah I know that app, use it a lot to fetch the lyrics, but it's called 'Get Lyrical' so I hope I can get away with just 'Lyrical'
Sure, I'll put that in my to-do list.
Seems cool and useful. I will keep checking for it and get it as soon it is available.
Yay! Thanks
It's fine.
Yosemite uses Helvetica which is a relatively dense font and consequently is a little harder to read in low resolutions than the font Lucida Grande which was an optimal choice for Mac OS X 0 to 9 during the phase of low(er) resolutions.
But it's fine. I hardly notice it when switching from one computer to the other. The eye adapts quickly.
i have to say i just updated to mavericks 2 weeks ago and the best update i can recall ever, both air +imac running fast + gave me more memory
i never run to update but i wish i had with mavs esp if you have an air
Personally, I think it looks great, but it does get a bit harder to read when the font size is small.
Making dark mode work on apps would defeat the whole purpose of dark mode. Dark mode isn't to make everything look cool and darker. It was made for less distraction and easier focus on the main app. Making the main app dark would make it less easier to focus on and not the contrary.
Right now, Mountain Lion is being updated e.g. for BASH Shell Shock, but, yes, there will come a time when the security side will force me to the next OS. But that's not now.
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But you're probably not in a line of work where you get sued if you mess up professionally, where you had to do something by a given deadline, and you needed your computer to do that, and if you did not do it by a certain deadline, then it all goes up in smoke. Not all people do that sort of work.
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I never had any of these issues for one reason or another.. but.. You won't be installing an Operating System because of a stupid Mail app? I mean, REALLY? That's what holding you off?
Yes. With my work, I am in Mail literally all day and night. So if Mail stuffs up, my professional practice goes down the tube. So, yes, I have not upgraded because of one app, Mail.
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I read the Mac website regularly, and from what i hear, overall Mavericks is superb. The weakness is Apple Mail - which, unfortunately, happens to be the number one app that I use for my work. So even if Mavericks is overall superb, for me Mail has to be superb as well. From what I hear, it is not.
Going to Wait
Going to wait to use Yosemite till i know all the bugs are out of it
Brigitte Grisanti
Going to wait to use Yosemite till i know all the bugs are out of it
Brigitte Grisanti
It most likely would be if Apple were still selling their OS on a physical disk. Because the OS will be distributed electronically, there's still a chance they may fix a few bugs before release.