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Apple Releases First Public Beta of macOS Mojave to Public Beta Testers
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I do a fair amount of camping in Death Valley, which makes the rest of the Mojave look almost lush by comparison. You only have to spend a little time there to realize that even Death Valley is far from lifeless or empty.
Apple's choice of the name "Mojave" raised my own eyebrows, but only because it was so easy to predict the glee with which some would inevitably seize upon the comparison to an "empty, lifeless wasteland." But really, there's as little justice in that characterization of the Mojave Desert as there is in believing that the only thing new that macOS Mojave offers is Dark Mode.
Las Vegas hadn't occurred to me. I quite agree that it's crazy to put a city there, and if I'd thought the description "empty, lifeless wasteland" was a cynical jab at Las Vegas, I'd never have taken exception to it!
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You add Path to your toolbar in Finder. Right click the toolbar, "Customize Toolbar...", drag "Path" to your toolbar.
Thank you for the correction. I should have written, "...Death Valley, which makes the rest of the Mojave look almost lush by comparison."
Finder>View>Show Path Bar
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Well now we know what the 2019 version of macOS will be called ; )
It's almost certainly a local Time Machine snapshot. It should go back down again once you've successfully backed up (might take 2 backups or something)
It's sad that people are concluding that is the headline feature yes.
...as opposed to homekit control via siri, group facetime and potentially running iOS applications.
-- My Experience --
I installed Mojave taking a risk without backup of HS cause time machine it was too damn slow.
It took longer to install but everything was okay. Except there was no cursor in the initial welcome screen. I had to eventually restart and upon reboot it went straight to login screen in dark mode.
I felt missed out having not seen the new setup screens of the new OS. I wanted to re-run the setup so, I followed this tutorial on How to Re-Run the OS X Setup Assistant and deleted .AppleSetupDone. This time I had to setup everything, and had to create a new account (which I deleted afterwards). I can verify that there is nothing significantly new to setup except for the screen where it asks for a display mode - light mode or dark mode.
Regardless, In the brief 15 minutes I used last night, I noticed that it does noticeably slow down computer.
I installed it on my 2017 13" TB model and I can clearly see that things started to become sluggish. Stuff like app opening time, system information access time, preferences pane opening time & the apps within it etc.
Hope it's because of beta & they would fix it in the final release.
Above all, the Dark Mode blew me away. Holy Jeez. It's 10 times better than what I expected. I don't have to squint my eyes at the screen anymore. Love it. Patiently waiting for the official release.
I've installed the public beta. I'd quite frankly grown sick to the stomach of the graphical static issues/long wake times plaguing High Sierra on my MBP 13 TB 2017.
I just hope it doesn't rear its ugly head in this release.
I have a backup so if something goes horribly wrong I can whizz back (now that I have a Thunderbolt 3 cable. *yay*) BUT so far it runs the most important programs I need it to!
I just hope it doesn't rear its ugly head in this release.
I have a backup so if something goes horribly wrong I can whizz back (now that I have a Thunderbolt 3 cable. *yay*) BUT so far it runs the most important programs I need it to!
Hopefully you are referring to the article, as I did not conclude that.
Thank you and thumbs up given. But the functionality I was hoping for was the way it used to be where I could click the path info at the top and it would turn into a single path I could cut and paste.
What you showed does show me where I am and takes away the blindfolded feeling, so I do appreciate it, but it's still less useful than it used to be.
I have read your posts. I retract the "Apple Sucks" narrative, as it is hyperbolic and not useful.
However, you're answers to others and myself have been obtuse. Apple touts 11 headline "features" on the Mojave preview page and around 20-odd items total interspersed if you count the headline and the sub-items. Apple has two visually-oriented features at the top of the page (Dark Mode and Dynamic Desktop) because those are what most users will respond to the best and fastest. Visual changes in the operating system that affect our everyday use of our computer have a huge impact in terms of user's perception and willingness to upgrade. I dislike Dark Mode immensely, but that's because my eyesight isn't what it used to be. White text on black or grey tends to vibrate and is uncomfortable for me to read after a short time. My co-workers are ga-ga over it. Different Strokes.
If those other features that are part of the Mojave release aren't interesting to you, what would be? Is there something missing in macOS that you feel is desperately needed? Otherwise, your original comment just reads as negative.
Now that I've finally been able to download Mojave, I've discovered that the Radeon 7950 is not a supported Metal graphics card.
This may or may not mean that none of the cheese grater Mac Pros will ever be supported.
Or maybe that support will come in the future? That's not usually Apple's way of doing things.
This may or may not mean that none of the cheese grater Mac Pros will ever be supported.
Or maybe that support will come in the future? That's not usually Apple's way of doing things.
One small thing I noticed which to my knowledge has not been mentioned is that Apple after so many years finally dumped the name "Trash can" and now call it "Bin" - a more non-US naming convention.
[doublepost=1530234205][/doublepost]Has Mojave destroyed anyones computer like seen in Mission Impossible sagas? I understand it is less than stable but is it okay to load on a very very very far away EXTERNAL hard drive?
There’s a creosote bush ring not far from you (“King Clone”) that’s one of the oldest organisms on earth. That’s more than 11 thousand years of life. And Joshua trees are awesome too. That said, I wouldn’t like to live in the desert myself – don’t like heat.
But you’re right about Mojave – very stable for me so far.
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Actually it converted my Fusion drive when I installed the first High Sierra beta. Oops!
I’m in US and it’s still called “Trash”. Years ago (System 7, maybe) I had a GB localised version and it was called “Wastepaper Basket!
EtreCheck won't function properly. Shut down from Mojave - got the spinning wheel and gave up, pulled plug, after 5 minutes; tried again with restart and again spinning wheel for ages. Pulled plug again. Ran Disk Utility from main drive and got this report of an error.
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