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Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 2

melendezest said:
I always, always use an external drive to test out new OSes.
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Bet that's a s-l-o-w experience, eh? What type/speed of external drive/interface do you use? Assuming USB3 or thunderbolt? Otherwise, it seems it wouldn't be fast enough to tolerate.
 
I noticed that there is not poof animation when removing icons from the dock. They just kind of flicker out. Looks more like a bug than a design choice.
 
Oh no... I like the stars in Time Machine! It gives the feeling that I'm travelling through time as I scroll through it.
 
dlucks said:
Bet that's a s-l-o-w experience, eh? What type/speed of external drive/interface do you use? Assuming USB3 or thunderbolt? Otherwise, it seems it wouldn't be fast enough to tolerate.
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With the 17, I have access to pretty much all interfaces (esata, TB, USB2-3, FW 400-800).

Why would it be slow? If it is good enough for a (new) Mac Pro to externalize everything, it's good enough for OS testing at the non-Mac Pro level. I have repeatedly used a FW800 drive to test out OSes as recent as Mavericks with no significant speed issues.

I'm not trying to use this as a primary setup, just enough to simply test things out. Esata gives me decent speeds, and so does TB. But I'm testing functionality and compatibility, not necessarily speed.
 
rdlink said:
First of all, it's not techie. Pretty simple GUI to repartition drives on the fly in OS X.

Second, booting from an external requires you to run via USB. That's likely USB2 for most people. I'd rather have the speed of the internal (or SSD, in my case). But hey, if the external works for you.

I'm just scratching my head at all of the people using Bootcamp for a second partition. It's not necessary. At all.
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First of all, it is techie. I'd venture to say that the average individual doesn't even know what a "partition" is. The fact that you know doesn't make it common. This is why Apple sells more appliances than anything else.

Second, you are flat out wrong here. You are free to boot from any supported device, and your limitation is the ports on your Mac (and your external enclosure). Of course, you are assuming too much here (again).

The idea is to test out the OS before installing it full on. This is IT101.

If you have to test more than one machine (like many pros actually do), then an external is one of several, very useful alternatives.

You must widen your gaze beyond our nerdy little world, sir.
 
dlucks said:
Bet that's a s-l-o-w experience, eh? What type/speed of external drive/interface do you use? Assuming USB3 or thunderbolt? Otherwise, it seems it wouldn't be fast enough to tolerate.
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I dunno, an Ext SATA3 SSD connected to the SuperSpeed Bus of a USB 3.0 port is pretty zippy.
 
SmOgER said:
it still won't work like that.

you need type "sudo su", hit enter, type password, hit enter.
then the above command works from the shell. I'am amazed at how ignorant people are writing those commands... If you are gonna post it, do it right without omitting anything.
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Nonsense. Do you even know what 'sudo su' does, exactly?
 
The only issue I have with Beta 2 AND Beta 1 is that it takes 4-5 seconds to switch between apps on my late 2013 Mac Pro. I also tried it on my early 2013 Mac Book Pro and the issue doesn't exist. Anyone else experiencing the same?
 
kmj2318 said:
I noticed that there is not poof animation when removing icons from the dock. They just kind of flicker out. Looks more like a bug than a design choice.
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I think thats a design choice. Notice the new 'Remove' popup that appears. The poof animation is still present when you remove icons from the menu bar.
 
AirDrop: AirDrop now offers a notification directly on the screen when a file is incoming, so it is no longer necessary to open Finder to receive a file (via 9to5Mac).
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I have to admit that now such a feature has been made available I'll be more inclined to use AirDrop - it is good that Apple has moved to yearly releases as to avoid the 'feature crush' (300 new features!) in favour of a step by step evolutionary improvements without the usual bugs-a-plenty blowback that comes from a massive slew of changes.
 
leman said:
Swift is far from being ready for serious development. They have done a little bit with it, but I doubt that they will actually rewrite anything using Swift. And why would it double the performance? :confused: Swift is slightly faster for some things and slower for other things. All in all, there will be no visible difference in performance.
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they made it sound like it was all about performance and showed graphs of it being faster then objective-C by nearly double. that is what got me thinking.
 
bbfc said:
I think thats a design choice. Notice the new 'Remove' popup that appears. The poof animation is still present when you remove icons from the menu bar.
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True, I do like how it gives that information. But it's weird how it becomes fully opaque again before disappearing.
 
"Time Machine has a redesigned interface that removes the stars. (via 9to5Mac)."
Yes! The stars looked nice but occasionally lagged, plus they made it so you couldn't use Time Machine over VNC due to a bug. And for a system restore application, Time Machine looked way too much like a video game. I've wished so many times for a 3rd party no-nonsense Time Machine restore application.
 
So, is screen sharing becoming like Apples (expensive) Remote desktop client ? with more features, or maybe minus the features (since Apple needs an excuse to sell it still cos that's what it does allow users to connect..
 
dlucks said:
Bet that's a s-l-o-w experience, eh? What type/speed of external drive/interface do you use? Assuming USB3 or thunderbolt? Otherwise, it seems it wouldn't be fast enough to tolerate.
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USB 2.0 external hard drives always worked OK for me as Mac bootup drives… well unless I was running Mavericks.
 
Runs great on my 2011 MBA but the mouse keeps freezing on my iMac (bluetooth) :/
 
File Vault

Installed the update on two computers. Anyone else concerned about it enabling file vault as a default?
 
j0ester said:
I feel like this OS X version is more stable than OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Even if it is in DevPreview.

I'm just not a fan of Spotlight now. I hate clicking it and then I get a pop-up. BOO!
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command shift is much quicker.
 
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