Apple Releases Second OS X Yosemite Golden Master Candidate to Developers, Public Beta 5

[Beavix]

Might be too early to tell, but does anyone else notice any graphics performance improvements?

On my Retina MBP 15" Late 2013 some animations are still choppy:
- In the About This Mac window, when switching between tabs.
- In any application, the zoom-in effect of the Open and Save windows.

Immediately after installing PB5 I had the feeling they fixed the choppiness, but now it's back.

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Please, someone tell me the number of the latest version of the iTunes 12.
Mine is 12.0.0.117. However software update shows that the latest version is available and I just can't download or install it.

12.0.0.140 here.

 

[Harry Muff]

Well, I thought I was playing it safe waiting this long before jumping, but I was wrong...


Finder is very broken for me. Even when it actually populates, the text is just black blobs. And, if I try to scroll, it all gets very psychedelic indeed.


I played around the the most recent Public Beta before installing yesterday's 104mb update and it's exactly the same problem.


I've left my rMBP reinstalling, but I'm not hopeful.



And just as Mavericks got my trust as being near bullet proof... Damn my impatience and need for new toys to play with.

 

[nunes013]

Anybody else get the white spinning circle (not wheel of death) after clicking restart and then a progress bar after it prompts you to log in after restart?

 

[mattburley7]

looks like a third gold master candidate might be needed...

 

[Harry Muff]

looks like a third gold master candidate might be needed...

It's about where Mavericks was when they released it, so expect it to be out tomorrow.

 

[6836838]

It is a hardware limitation because the existing iOS implementation uses BT4.0, therefore the Mac must as well for compatibility.

BT4.0 was a good choice for iOS. It helped to keep battery consumption low while allowing passive detection of incoming AirDrop requests, rather than having to poll regularly (wasting battery) or depending on the user going into an active receive mode (as is done with legacy Mac AirDrop).

It is disappointing that USB BT4.0 adapters are not supported for AirDrop on the Mac. It is most likely to be a deliberate choice by Apple to only support their hardware, at least for the initial release. It would be nice if they relax this rule in later updates, or if it is possible for a third party kernel extension to enable AirDrop with a third party USB BT4.0 adapter.

There are existing OS X features along these lines, e.g. with a simple kernel extension it is possible for Thunderbolt docks to enable "extra operating current" negotiation for their USB ports. The CalDigit Thunderbolt Station uses this to supply more current to an iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple keyboard or USB SuperDrive. The kernel extension requires OS X 10.9.2 or later, so Apple added support for this after the initial release of Mavericks.

Submitting feature requests to Apple and/or USB BT4.0 adapter manufacturers might encourage Apple to allow a similar mechanism for AirDrop support.

My point is, they could have added a mode for legacy (read 3 year old) devices. BT4.0 is still able to communicate with older versions of BT, albeit not as efficient. You can't tell me it was technically impossible to have AirDrop work between an iOS and OSX device with some form of BT or WiFi capability.

 

[mattburley7]

It's about where Mavericks was when they released it, so expect it to be out tomorrow.

doubtful they would release a third release candidate in the same week or the public version. rumor that public release will be released on october 16th at the next apple event.

 

[Harry Muff]

doubtful they would release a third release candidate in the same week or the public version. rumor that public release will be released on october 16th at the next apple event.

I was being ironic.


My feeling is that this thing of releasing a new version every year isn't working as they are finally getting them right just in time for a new one to come out and then the cycle starts all over again.

A two year cycle would work much better as we are only enjoying two or three months with an OS that we can say is solid. Up until then we are just waiting for updates to fix the various bugs.

 

[MarcWallace]

itunes

Please, someone tell me the number of the latest version of the iTunes 12.
Mine is 12.0.0.117. However software update shows that the latest version is available and I just can't download or install it.

Hi, mine is showing as 12.0.0.140, running GM 2

HTH.

 

[allan.nyholm]

I'm certain these issues have been mentioned.

· Secure Empty Trash looks wonky still on all Dock positions.

· Hover on Stacks on either Left or Right Dock positions looks terrible still.

 

[Michael Goff]

Safari actually crashes more than it has in the past few months. >_>;

 

[chrisbru]

My cMBP on Mavericks does that...do you have encryption turned on? If so that is why it does that I believe.

I didn't before I installed the public beta, but I wonder if something changed when I installed.

 

[JobsIsMyHomie]

Those two sentences contradict each other.

I thought the exact same thing.

 

[humar]

removed, wrong thread

 

[rmercier]

Anybody else get the white spinning circle (not wheel of death) after clicking restart and then a progress bar after it prompts you to log in after restart?

Yes...and for me, that spinning takes 3 minutes befores before the progress bar appears...after EVERY restart or shutdown

 

[Alimar]

How does the UI look on non-retina displays??? I was told the thinner fonts only look good on a retina Mac.

The thin fonts look okay on my iMac 27" i7 (late 2013). So far, no issues with beta 5. Slowly adding and testing programs.

 

[foxracing]

I don't like the update to the dock

 

[milo]

So we are saying the same thing. And i said nothing worth NOTING. If ANY of those "hundreds of changes" would be providing something like a major fix to a serious bug your crazy if you don't think they wouldn't brag about finally fixing it.

Instead of doing a detailed change log, when a release is supposed to fix a particular bug, Apple notifies those who submitted that bug so they can confirm if it's fixed or not. Apple's goal is improving the software, not bragging to a group that's under NDA anyway.

 

[spacemanspifff]

Did any of you happen to test Adobe CS5 (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom) on Yosemite?
Does it work? Is it stable?

I can confirm CS5 works great on my 2009 iMac and CS6 works too although I've had a few sporadic keyboard issues with CS6 - my guess is they will get fixed once Yosemite is released or maybe not if they are trying to get people to get onto their rental scheme!

 

[Macintosh1984]

I think we should analyze the GM Candidate 2 if installed from scratch, not by updates, because it is certain that the beta updates can lead to malfunction.

Install from scratch is always better than upgrade, also not transferring data from the previous system.

 

[nunes013]

Yes...and for me, that spinning takes 3 minutes befores before the progress bar appears...after EVERY restart or shutdown

I sent feedback to Apple using feedback assistant. Hopefully they fix it because it gets quite annoying...

 

[cleopete]

Continuity contishmooity....

I love my Mac, but all the synergised software in the world is not going to make me buy an iPhone. Yech....

Mulling over whether to dl the new GM? All the dev previews ran great on my 2009 MBP, but the last GM killed my virtual machines and alternately would cause my Mac to forget it had either bluetooth or wifi.

Fortunately a few reboots seemed to deal with the hard ware probs, and reinstalling Parallels fixed my VMs. There was a moment of panic though.

(and may we please dispense with the "Never install a preview on a critical machine....blah, blah, blah..." posts? Yes we know. Doing it anyway.)

 

[cleopete]

My mother still uses TIGER and her PowerMac Quicksilver 867. If not for power outages, the machine has never crashed for over a YEAR! HAHA!

I did upgrade it to TenFourFox as Safari is too far out of date. But otherwise her MAIL program works better than mine! LOL

It has a copy of 10.5.8 on it too, but I never realized until installing that how slow the machine is with Leopard. At LEAST TWICE as SLOW!

For now she's happy. Apple needs to get back to its roots. Nobody likes BLOATWARE!

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It might have been there in Beta 1, but it's not now on my Beta 4.

My grandma loved Windows 3.1 in 2003, yet somehow the rest of the world managed to limp by on XP. Honestly, having read your list of grievances, I'm not sure you know what 'beta' means, or have made much effort to resolve your issues. I can't even reproduce most of them?

For the record, my 2009 MBP has never crashed, even with power outages.

 

[rmercier]

I would love to do a clean install...but i just can't deal with re-installing all my apps and re-entering all my software keys and liscenses.

 

[snorkelman]

A two year cycle would work much better as we are only enjoying two or three months with an OS that we can say is solid. Up until then we are just waiting for updates to fix the various bugs.

Or if you aren't buying the latest n greatest hardware update just hold off for the stable version and run with that for a year (by which point the stable version of whatever they've been shipping will be with us)

i.e. run 10.9.5 till next September and move over then to 10.10.5, when they're just about to push 10.11.0 out the door.