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Apple Releases macOS Mojave With Dark Mode, Stacks, Dynamic Desktop and More

As pointed out in TheVerge:

"Mojave also includes four pieces of software that you might recognise as ported versions of iOS apps. Apple News, Voice Memos, Home, and Stocks have all previously been available for the iPhone and iPad, but 10.14 sees them come to the Mac desktop for the first time."

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17895306/macos-mojave-10-14-release-date-download-features

I can understand News, Home, Voice Memos, but who in their right mind still uses Stocks nowadays?
I guess all that can be useful on a desktop..... but why wouldn't you pick up an iPhone ?
 
interessiert said:
But soon there will be a third party patch available for our older devices like my Mac Book Air Early 2011
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Says who?
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drlunanerd said:
You can enable font smoothing in Terminal (at least in the betas - not tested in this GM release yet). But it's not subpixel anti-aliasing.

https://www.howtogeek.com/358596/how-to-fix-blurry-fonts-on-macos-mojave-with-subpixel-antialiasing/
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Not the same. Helps, but still bad.
 
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shareef777 said:
Sorry to hear your Macs stopped working today because of this release. I'm kidding of course, but software needs to abandon old tech to progress forward. The more time developers need to spend ensuring older devices work the less time they have for newer more innovative features.

Personally, 5 years should be the minimum supported time frame, and 8 max. Just my personal opinion.
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Yeah that’s why I said understand the need to discontinue support at a certain time. Did you not read that?
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MauiPa said:
True, you certainly couldn’t keep running your perfectly good hardware on your current Mac OS.
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Well, I think anyone who follows best practices wouldn’t suggest using an unsupported OS if they care at all about security don’t you?
 
iOS 12 and macOS Mojave might be the sign that Apple finally returned to being that good old Apple again, at least when it comes to software.

Both are totally opposite from what we experienced in the past several years. Fast and stable and rock solid so far.

Maybe it was just a phase? Let's hope.
 
Can’t get it to work. When installing, after a while, it says it might damaged and to redownload the installer. Done this three times now and still not working. Anyone got any ideas? Running on the latest MacBook Pro. Thanks.
 
AgentOSX said:
The installation screen gets to the "macOS Mojave will install on Macintish HD" and then it just locks up. I cannot even force quit anything. Only pulling the plug works.
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Yep, same here. Disappointing. Suppose I'll try again with the .1 update. I don't want to replace my 2013 iMac quite yet :(
 
Tech198 said:
As pointed out in TheVerge:

"Mojave also includes four pieces of software that you might recognise as ported versions of iOS apps. Apple News, Voice Memos, Home, and Stocks have all previously been available for the iPhone and iPad, but 10.14 sees them come to the Mac desktop for the first time."

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17895306/macos-mojave-10-14-release-date-download-features

I can understand News, Home, Voice Memos, but who in their right mind still uses Stocks nowadays?
I guess all that can be useful on a desktop..... but why wouldn't you pick up an iPhone ?
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It's probably helpful so that when you ask siri a stock query, regardless of what device, it can answer in the same way.
 
Am I the only one that App Store updates don't show up on? I have Mojave on two different computers, one computer is updating apps, the other isn't seeing any updates? Both have same apps. For example, iBooks Author, updated to 2.6.1 on iMac, on MacBook Pro, doesn't show up, even though it's got the 2.6 version, but when I look at the app in the store, shows the newer version, but doesn't offer an update option. I've restarted, zapped pram, reindexed spotlight, tried all the usual tricks. I don't like how there is no way to refresh the updates, like on iPhone where you can spring it from top.
 
Apple didn't really launch a dark mode that you can't automatically activate at night, right? Someone tell me where to find the setting because surely they didn't expect me to enable and disable it manually.
 
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Just for kicks and because I have full CCC backup. I installed it on my MBA 7,2 Model - A1466 June 2017. I bought brand spanking new. The FONTS are ruined. Wow. Shame on Apple for selling New Hardware that can't even support NEW OS. Or hobbled what people have to look at all day long for work or play. I'll CCC it back to HS. This is crap.
 
Wel, I have a 2012 non retina MBP and a 2012 i7 Mini so I can upgrade both to Mojave. I'm just going to wait about 6 months as I always do for every release. I like waiting to let Apple work out the bugs. I learned to do that several years ago.
 
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TooDarkPark said:
Wel, I have a 2012 non retina MBP and a 2012 i7 Mini so I can upgrade both to Mojave. I'm just going to wait about 6 months as I always do for every release. I like waiting to let Apple work out the bugs. I learned to do that several years ago.
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I have the same machine 2012 non retina. May wait a bit as well. FWIW, it hasn’t showed up in the App Store for me. I can download it other ways.
 
August West said:
Hasn't shown up on either my MB Air or Mini. Downloaded it manually to my Mini but will probably wait to install it there but my risk it on my Air.
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ehh I took the plunge lol

2012 MBP classic. Here goes nuthin

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spjonez said:
As much as I love Apple this is the stupidest decision they've made since removing the headphone jack from iPhones. Our entire dev team uses Server so we don't have to configure Apache vhosts by hand. Why does Apple insist on removing features for the hell of it? It makes no sense.
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Because the engineer in charge of this has left or reassigned to the animoji team.
 
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I haven't read through this thread much, but I make a lot of calls on my MBP using wifi calling and my iPhone, and I don't remember it ever auto launching FaceTime before, it would only show the call tab in the top right of my screen. Now when I make calls it always launches FaceTime and turns on my camera and still shows the tab in the top right of the screen, its pretty annoying, any one else notice this or do I have some setting wrong?
 
I did a clean install of Mojave Developer Beta 9, then then 10, then 11 over those, and now installed the final production Mojave over Beta 11. Is there any real value in doing an erase, then a clean install of Mojave production? Anyone know of any material differences...?
 
vagos said:
I'd like to take a moment and thank everyone for downloading and installing this release. Thank you guys for testing the waters for all of us who'll wait for .1+
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I’m normally a .5er but feeling lucky this time.
 
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