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Apple Releases OS X 10.9.5 With Reliability Improvements, Safari 7.0.6
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Same for me... so have given up on it via App Store and grabbing the combo dmg at my usual download speed.
Mavericks 10.9.5 represents the end of an era for OS X...
As in this is likely to be the last significant update to a 'classic look' release.
OS X Yosemite is looking great but the slightly 'retro look' of OS X Mavericks has its appeal. This will particularly apply to many established Mac users.
I have the perfect balance suitable for me of Dual Booting OS X Mavericks and Yosemite not least being not prepared to pay to upgrade Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion AGAIN!
As in this is likely to be the last significant update to a 'classic look' release.
OS X Yosemite is looking great but the slightly 'retro look' of OS X Mavericks has its appeal. This will particularly apply to many established Mac users.
I have the perfect balance suitable for me of Dual Booting OS X Mavericks and Yosemite not least being not prepared to pay to upgrade Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion AGAIN!
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Ok, the download was extremely fast, just like the installation.
Differences? Well, 0. Everything was fast and awesome before, everything is fast and awesome now.
Ok, the download was extremely fast, just like the installation.
Differences? Well, 0. Everything was fast and awesome before, everything is fast and awesome now.
You will be missing out. Yosemite is really just Mavericks + Handoff + Great new looks.
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I have Yosemite on a separate external drive and play with it occasionally. But i won't make it my primary OS anytime soon.
Is anyone else seeing images opened in a separate tab centered in Safari 7.1? I don't know why they did this, every web browser I've ever used, including all versions of Safari, have had the images left justified for a reason.
Doesn't really feel snappier for me...
Use Firefox.
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Was about to joke about how you're spoiled, and 15 years ago we had to use 56k, and then realized this is still slower than that.
Yes it does, app signing is on version 2
http://9to5mac.com/2014/08/04/apple...n-os-x-10-9-5-yosemite-could-break-some-apps/
Time to understand that this isn't actually a joke - more an inverse reaction to the fact that each OS update tends to make people's hardware experience 'less snappy' and that intact Safari only feels a bit sharper in relation to the OS.
Adding to that there's no real obstacle for making an OS work just as quickly on a five year old machine as a year old machine - these are decisions made by Apple to make it less usable and induce a feeling of 'old hardware' and time to buy a new laptop etc.
No. New releases come with more functionality or animated UI's, both will consume CPU power and RAM and outdates computers over time.
Or programmers use interpreter languages, not compiled binaries. Or ... or ... or.
Not an Apple thing. You find it everywhere in IT.
Or programmers use interpreter languages, not compiled binaries. Or ... or ... or.
Not an Apple thing. You find it everywhere in IT.
I didn't say it WAS an Apple thing; but these 'new' ways of using an OS could work in a less capable form (options to disable frivolous functionality) when installed on older yet still incredibly powerful hardware.
We have a period in UI fashion that ironically needs more GPU for greater minimalism - it's as 'fake' as skeuomorphism is in terms of 'real' usability.
