Apple Releases OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 6

[charlituna]

Now all we need is an upgraded iLife, iWork and iTunes Music Store with Lossless music, and everything will be dandy.

We need more than that. Especially in the iTunes stores. Like better meta data for actual searching and listing (clean up things like the 50 shows all listed under Masterpiece theatre so they are a screwy mess). Better pricing, better quality, feature that match physical discs, wuicker release dates and global releases. No more missing seasons. A way to update video a la iTunes plus and complete the season on all titles. Letting you buy bundles at a discount if you own a title already wouldn't be bad either

 

[jameslmoser]

I'm looking forward to Mavericks. That being said,

1) Tabbed Finder should have been here years ago.

2) Dual monitor capability for full screen mode should have been implemented with the debut of the full screen mode in the first place. Going full screen and having all your other monitors go grey is so ridiculous it should be considered a bug and patched in the Lions.

3) It concerns me that we're calling it "dual monitor" capability. It should be "all monitor" capability. There are many people with 3+ monitors and I'm aware of at least one guy on these forums with 10 monitors.

Totally agree with 1 and 2, but Apple's not calling it "dual monitor", they are calling it "multiple display".

 

[ryleguy06]

Is anyone else finding that airplay is broken. I only get sound.

 

[Cougarcat]

We need more than that. Especially in the iTunes stores. Like better meta data for actual searching and listing (clean up things like the 50 shows all listed under Masterpiece theatre so they are a screwy mess). Better pricing, better quality, feature that match physical discs, wuicker release dates and global releases. No more missing seasons. A way to update video a la iTunes plus and complete the season on all titles. Letting you buy bundles at a discount if you own a title already wouldn't be bad either

A lot of that is up to the studios, unfortunately.

 

[charlituna]

Next monday

Unless it's tomorrow. Last one was. Even as an 'emergency' release.

 

[mark29]

Mavericks seems pretty polished already. REALLY hope they change the reminders app design to more or less match iOS 7's.

Totally agree, the more I use ios7 and icloud beta the more I desperately hope they do a complete overhaul on the osx versions to match the new style.

 

[Sky Blue]

Mavericks seems pretty polished already.

Have you been using it? There's a long way to go yet. Can't see the GM out until mid October.

 

[jonnysods]

Haven't been this excited about a new OSX since Snow Leopard. Can't wait!

 

[Aquaporin]

There is quite a bit of stagnation in OS development for both OS X and Windows. I wonder how much of this is due to the rapid release cycle.

 

[Kariya]

I could be wrong but system information now shows SATA/SATA EXPRESS in the place of just SATA.

Thats been there since like the 1st or 2nd dev. Its also in 10.8.5 beta.

I hope they updated iTunes and iPhoto betas. Both were incredible dire in the last DP.

 

[bbapps]

Anybody know when Fall is?

 

[quactaur]

Not sure if it's a placebo but on my mid 2012 macbook air DP6 seems as fast as hell.

The default mouse speed is definitely up and chrome and system preferences are noticeably faster. Maybe it's because it's emptied caches? Though I wouldn't have thought that would result in a big speed bump.

 

[Sky Blue]

Anybody know when Fall is?

The astronomical fall (Northern Hemisphere) 2013 begins on
Sunday, September 22
and ends on
Friday, December 20

I expect Mavericks to be released on the App Store late October.

 

[Nermal]

Unless it's tomorrow. Last one was.

Beta 6 was released tomorrow! You heard it here first!

 

[noiseordinance]

Damn and they haven't even fixed half the bugs in Mountain Lion.

Tell me about it. And some of the bugs are obscenely obvious. For instance, on three different rMBPs, why does my freaking background image reset every time I reboot since 10.8.1? Ridiculous.

As an aside, I see nothing special about Mavericks. Perhaps I haven't read deeply enough into it, but none of the new features seem interesting to me at all.

 

[haruhiko]

Beta 6 was released tomorrow! You heard it here first!

BGR: iOS 7 Beta 7 will be released yesterday.

 

[Saturn1217]

I don't know about Finder (don't really use Tabs in Finder), but in Safari it now works the way you want. Which is awesome.

Does this mean that safari also lets you have more than ~10 tabs before using that stupid overflow arrow? I always found it very counterintuitive to access the tabs that went into that overflow.

 

[koban4max]

Want. Mavericks. Now.

why?

 

[biallystock]

Hopefully Mavericks will bring back some of the responsiveness lost when Snow Leopard was replaced. Apple would have to do a lot to Safari to get me off Firefox but who knows?

There are several reasons to use Safari over Firefox principally because pdfs created from webpages retain better appearance and retain hyperlinks. Also links dragged from Safari webpages are more likely to stay links and retain their appearance in Apple applications.

I work between Safari, Firefox for capturing videos and Google Chrome for speed and the occasional resolution of compatibility issues.

 

[ActionableMango]

Apple's not calling it "dual monitor", they are calling it "multiple display".

Apple calls it "multiple displays."

"Multi-monitor"

OK, OK, I get it.

I was reading too much into the article itself, which stated "dual monitor".

 

[Windlasher]

So far so good, been using it on a daily basis (not on my work computer of course) and it seems pretty mature.

I just wish they would keep the Menu Bar in a fixed position instead of sliding it with the screen. Everything else is great!

Did they return the ability to search network drives?

 

[rdlink]

Finally!

DP5 was a disaster, Chrome crashing with 3 finger tap, iTunes shuffle messed up, wake up from sleep left a dark screen etc.

Didn't have any of those issues...

 

[fahlman]

I hope iWeb is finally updated in this beta.

And Chooser too.

 

[WardC]

MacOS X 10.9 Mavericks

MacOS X 10.10 "Tin-Tin"

Or will they call it "Nuggets" instead, since Apple seems to like naming their NEW OS X Releases after NBA basketball teams?

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And Chooser too.

I hope it will let me configure my ImageWriter...gawd I love dot-matrix...scrrreeech screech!!

 

[biallystock]

I'm looking forward to Mavericks. That being said,

1) Tabbed Finder should have been here years ago.

2) Dual monitor capability for full screen mode should have been implemented with the debut of the full screen mode in the first place. Going full screen and having all your other monitors go grey is so ridiculous it should be considered a bug and patched in the Lions.

3) It concerns me that we're calling it "dual monitor" capability. It should be "all monitor" capability. There are many people with 3+ monitors and I'm aware of at least one guy on these forums with 10 monitors.

1. I've been using TotalFinder [free] since Snow Leopard, which I am sure will still have more features then Apple's version. Apple always lifts someone else's idea only to dumb it down or make it half baked. They have already messed with TotalFinder in later versions of ML, by taking the consistent command tab shortcut and inconsistently applying to the sidebar in Finder. Hope they straighten that out in Maverick.

2. Agreed. Just one of those WTF UI things that Apple does lately.

3. Also need a way of faster navigation across monitors, I play find the cursor all day.

Maverick will be catch up for me and shifting the deck chairs. I am more interested in the long overdue iWork update and hope this isn't just another slide into iOS UI muddle and that it genuinely improves productivity and compatibility.

Long overdue is also the ability to quickly and transparently read all eBooks on the Mac (without silly page turns), just legible and functional reading material in a borderless window, quickly minimised to a bookcover icon.

Given the common cores of OSX and iOS I am really wondering where is the ability to run iOS apps in OSX? It seems an obvious function.