Except they are still selling the 'unsupported' hardware as I type. Removing the subpixel antialiasing is a huge FU to the non-retina users.
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Apple Releases macOS Mojave With Dark Mode, Stacks, Dynamic Desktop and More
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I just successfully upgraded my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) running High Sierra latest release to Mojave. Download of Mojave only took a few minutes, perhaps 3-5 minutes. Installation took about 40 minutes total.
09:42 Started Mojave installation on MBP
09:46 MBP restarted
10:13 MBP screen briefly went completely black (for about 10 sec),
10:15 MBP screen went completely black (for about 45 sec)
10:22 installation completed and the sign-in screen for Mojave displayed
I didn't use the beta version, so this is my first look at Mojave.
I'm not all that impressed with the Dark Mode. It is a good start, but they need to add some customization. For example, the light colored text is too bright with the dark background (too much contrast) and causes the "mini blinds effect" with my eyes. I see no way to make the text a little less bright. Also, Safari will display web pages how they were specified by the designers of same, so you will still get bright white pages that don't really fit into Dark Mode very well. They need to rethink Dark Mode, add customizations for text color/shade and add the ability to darken bright pages and app interfaces. Otherwise I won't be able to use it much, if at all.
The new screen capture function (Command + Shift + 5) is an improvement, but when I captured the attached About This Mac window using the Capture Selected Window option, it also captured at least 1/2 inch of screen all around it. BTW, I cropped the image before posting it. That is clunky and shows how the Apple programmers just are not that good sometimes. They need to fix that. Geez MS has been able to that correctly for over 20 years!
I haven't had time to test out Mojave much yet, but so far no issues. I tried running Excel 2011 for Mac which is a 32-bit app and it seems to load and run okay, and without any warnings about it being 32-bit. So that is good. I hate Numbers as it is too clunky to use.
One thing I will warn you about though, and this goes for any Mac OS X update, be sure to have your current passwords written down so you can refer to them during the installation and/or setup of the update. With Mojave I only needed to enter my Administration Password for my MBP, and all went well. With High Sierra I was asked for the Administration Password for my MBP, the Apple ID Password, and the Encryption Password, and I had no idea about the Encryption Password even existing much less what I had used. So I was locked out of my MBP until I spent 30+ on the phone with Apple Support and finally got every necessary password reset. Apparently a rare glitch occurred when installing High Sierra that caused the MBP to somehow use an older password. What a mess, but it got resolved fairly easily. But again, I had no issues at all installing Mojave as it went fairly fast and flawless.
09:42 Started Mojave installation on MBP
09:46 MBP restarted
10:13 MBP screen briefly went completely black (for about 10 sec),
10:15 MBP screen went completely black (for about 45 sec)
10:22 installation completed and the sign-in screen for Mojave displayed
I didn't use the beta version, so this is my first look at Mojave.
I'm not all that impressed with the Dark Mode. It is a good start, but they need to add some customization. For example, the light colored text is too bright with the dark background (too much contrast) and causes the "mini blinds effect" with my eyes. I see no way to make the text a little less bright. Also, Safari will display web pages how they were specified by the designers of same, so you will still get bright white pages that don't really fit into Dark Mode very well. They need to rethink Dark Mode, add customizations for text color/shade and add the ability to darken bright pages and app interfaces. Otherwise I won't be able to use it much, if at all.
The new screen capture function (Command + Shift + 5) is an improvement, but when I captured the attached About This Mac window using the Capture Selected Window option, it also captured at least 1/2 inch of screen all around it. BTW, I cropped the image before posting it. That is clunky and shows how the Apple programmers just are not that good sometimes. They need to fix that. Geez MS has been able to that correctly for over 20 years!
I haven't had time to test out Mojave much yet, but so far no issues. I tried running Excel 2011 for Mac which is a 32-bit app and it seems to load and run okay, and without any warnings about it being 32-bit. So that is good. I hate Numbers as it is too clunky to use.
One thing I will warn you about though, and this goes for any Mac OS X update, be sure to have your current passwords written down so you can refer to them during the installation and/or setup of the update. With Mojave I only needed to enter my Administration Password for my MBP, and all went well. With High Sierra I was asked for the Administration Password for my MBP, the Apple ID Password, and the Encryption Password, and I had no idea about the Encryption Password even existing much less what I had used. So I was locked out of my MBP until I spent 30+ on the phone with Apple Support and finally got every necessary password reset. Apparently a rare glitch occurred when installing High Sierra that caused the MBP to somehow use an older password. What a mess, but it got resolved fairly easily. But again, I had no issues at all installing Mojave as it went fairly fast and flawless.
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Certainly – I'm just going by what they've decided to release to the public so far. And those apps have been left largely unchanged from their mobile counterparts with respect to all of the iOS UI mannerisms. E.g. instead of right-clicking you have to slide an item to the left and click on an ellipsis button. Just seems a bit ridiculous. Using them, you almost feel like you're reverse engineering the UI by being forced to think of how things are done on iOS.
Maybe.
Yeah, but I've already been through this with my heavily upgraded and hacked 2008 Mac Pro, over here.
There just isn't a way to ever make it run an OS X release newer than El Capitan.
And last week, Microsoft announced that my Office 365 for Mac subscription was no longer going to include any feature updates for the apps, for OS X releases older than Sierra.
So even though I had gotten comfortable with just using El Capitan on it .... the major applications are quickly moving away from supporting it.
There just isn't a way to ever make it run an OS X release newer than El Capitan.
And last week, Microsoft announced that my Office 365 for Mac subscription was no longer going to include any feature updates for the apps, for OS X releases older than Sierra.
So even though I had gotten comfortable with just using El Capitan on it .... the major applications are quickly moving away from supporting it.
It's not an update. It's a free purchase from the app store. There should be a big banner there to click and download.
For those that do not have machines which officially support Mojave, there's a guy on YouTube who has got it running on older systems with very little loss of functionality. It may be worth checking out if you like.
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Yea I'll look that up and install Mojave on a spare disk I have lying around. I'm on rock solid Mavericks still due to some older software, but if I can find some suitable alternatives I'd like to upgrade to something a little more modern.
just wanted to share this very informative MR thread on Mojave on non retina screens:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...a-or-any-non-retina-screen-in-mojave.2138108/
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...a-or-any-non-retina-screen-in-mojave.2138108/
I am having the same issue on my late 2013 iMac. Now having to restore from time machine. Only 15 hours to wait....
I agree & let's see.
I do think that the Marzipan apps should've been optional downloads to the OS from the Mac App Store for all of the reasons that you state.
I'll be happy if by this March, we see versions that feel closer to the Mac App Store.
On the other hand, you can just put them in a folder in Launchpad and forget about them as none are really essential!
In another post, I said that this release feels very much like Snow Leopard and I definitely stand by that. Of course Snow Leopard didn't launch with the Mac App Store, but ended up with it near the end of its active development.
I'm wondering if we'll see similar changes to Mojave as we get ready for what will be quite a significant change in 2019 to macOS.
Yes it does. This is a new "defaults write" command that enables subpixel anti-aliasing, not just linear blend mode.
You said...
....nothing about 10.4.1 being better, and, you don't know if 10.14.1 will be better, most likely it is but there have been both beta's and point updates which were worse than the one it replaced.
It can't. Subpixel antialiasing does not exist on Mojave. No setting will bring that back. From the author of the article:
- Chris Hoffman Mod
That being said! I think this makes fonts look way less jagged and nicer on my MacBook Air's screen. So, if you want to make fonts look better on lower-resolution screens, it's still a great tip---and the best we can do, for now. Apple should really explain what's going on here.
So I wanted to go ahead and update my 2018 MacBook pro to Mojave but when I go to appstore it says "No update available"
That article is out of date - it's based on an old beta and not the final GM released yesterday.
I've literally got it working on Mojave right in front of me. I have screenshots to prove subpixel anti-aliasing.
Why don't you install Mojave on your own hardware and test it out yourself?
Thanks for this! Do you know where to even get the encryption PW? What would i search for on my mac to see if i have that anywhere?
And this article is wrong too? https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/09/macos-10-14-mojave-the-ars-technica-review/12/#h3
"Earlier in the betas, there were Terminal commands you could use to re-enable subpixel antialiasing if you really wanted to. But they don’t seem to work in the release build".
Seems he's out of date about the commands. There's a new undocumented one that's been found in the GM release. Maybe it's not fully supported (for example in Dark Mode, I haven't tried that yet as I don't care for it). But the point is that you can change text rendering in Mojave if you want to, so it's not all bad news if font anti-aliasing really concerns you on non-Retina displays.
Like I said, install Mojave yourself and do your own research and testing.
Was able to install Mojave from the app store(Going to the feature section) so the install is complete..now I have another question..on the dock..see I went to system information because I wanted to check my battery life(Under power) and was able to see it..but even though I exited it..on the dock itself..right next to the folder on the far right(right next to the trash can) I can still see the icon for system information..is that something new in Mojave? that whatever you used previously will still be there even when you close it out?
Edit: Its cool someone already told me its a new feature in Mojave
Edit: Its cool someone already told me its a new feature in Mojave
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