Apple Releases Sixth OS X Yosemite Public Beta

[betabeta]

I really hate to say it, and its water under the bridge, but I like the old Safari icon, alot better...

I can see people would like the old one, I thought I did at first, but looking at all the icons now, I actually much prefer the new Safari one in Yosemite.

I think all the icons in Yosemite look better, iOS 8 on the other hand still look slightly off, and not the quality of Yosemite. I would dump the square box icons in iOS and do it just like Yosemite.

 

[BSben]

Are you kidding me?
This will be released on thursday and it still works/looks like this?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef55bzKt7Lw

I am using Yosemite on a late 2009 Mac Mini, and I have never had problems like that. Yosemite actually made it run smoother.

 

[nikicampos]

I am not sure if I should download Yosemite on October 16 do not want to go through what I did with iOS8 on my iPhone 5 too glitchy.

I might be wrong, but I don't think the public release of Yosemite will be available October 16, then what's the point of releasing PB 6 three days before the event, and no official GM, I'm pretty sure they will only announce that you can download it in a couple of weeks.

 

[IOwnAppleStuff]

I'm running it on a 2010 MBP and it works well.

That sounds promising, thanks.

Still, I'm going to wait a good long while before upgrading my imac. My $800 ipad 2 is a piece of crap now because of ios 8, and there is neither a downgrade nor fix available. I expect the same sort of treatment of older macs from Apple now.

 

[deputy_doofy]

Maybe because "flat" has been browbeaten into us, but I like the way Yosemite looks from the pictures I've seen. I liken it to flat screen TVs of today (Yosemite) to the old, wooden TVs of the early 1980s.

At some point, fancy was the desired thing, now it just looks.... wrong.

 

[Merode]

All the bugs that I've reported haven't been fixed.
If they release it this week, they're rushing it.

 

[jay22098]

All the bugs that I've reported haven't been fixed.
If they release it this week, they're rushing it.

what bugs have you discovered?

 

[admmasters]

I can see people would like the old one, I thought I did at first, but looking at all the icons now, I actually much prefer the new Safari one in Yosemite.

I think all the icons in Yosemite look better, iOS 8 on the other hand still look slightly off, and not the quality of Yosemite. I would dump the square box icons in iOS and do it just like Yosemite.

NO NO NO! No way - part of the uniformity of iOS is in the icons - looking at Android where there are no icon standards and it just looks a complete mess.

 

[The Deepness]

TBH.... what has really changed since the first release of OS X?

Yes, it looks prettier, has more features, but in no way has any desktop OS had a revolution.
Nothing like "mobile phone to smartphone".

In short:
Of course, OS X Yosemite looks more "modern", but it is not revolutionary.

No, but it IS evolutionary. To have "spun off" iOS, and now to have integrated the two so seamlessly, should prove to be significant and welcome progress for most users. Good job, Apple!

 

[cubby2718]

I happen to prefer the 2005 screenshot here. All the graphics in Yosemite look like placeholders. Compare Safari:

Old Safari Icon
New Safari Icon

That's not how the Safari icon has looked in any of the Yosemite public betas. Actually, I don't think it ever looked like that, at least publicly. The Safari icon has been consistent since Apple previewed Yosemite at WWDC. What you've linked there is probably just someone's poor attempt at duplicating the Safari icon.

 

[Asclepio]

You honestly think..

This.

Image

Looks like this...

Image

OSX TIGER

OSX YOSEMITE emh… and tiger is 2x faster than this garbage

 

[HeyHeyHeyy]

I still see the graphical bug with some applications (notably Firefox). Has to do with the close/minimize/full-screen options not pushing applications with tabs, like it does with Safari, to the right of the options then back to normal when you hover outside of the menu-bar.

 

[riffcat]

only bug ive noticed

Since first public beta of Yosemite, the only bug ive noticed on my 2009 MacBook pro is the sound volume graphic bug. The sound sound slider on the status bar will often become "greyed out" when wake up from sleep and have to kick it into functionality from system preferences by toggling the show in menu bar on/off.

 

[8CoreWhore]

Who is saying "modern", Apple or MacRumors? If it's MR, that's just their take on it and you can't question it as if the designers are calling it that. I'd say, in any case, "modern" is a poor choice as a description. But don't get hung up on it. It certainly isn't exactly the same as anything else. It is what it is. Personally, I like Mavericks better.

If Jony Ive had his way, our screens would be blank, because to have anything there is "ugly" to him. This could be bad news going forward, things will get weirder, lighter, thinner, less contrast, harder to see. But hey, it sure will be purdy.

 

[UncleSchnitty]

Upvote if you will be downloading and installing Yosemite on all your Macs on day one.

On release I will be cloning my Mavericks SSD to a HDD then Fresh installing Yosemite and migrating my Programs and files over on my Mac Pro(Main Machine). Basically reversing my current setup: Mavericks internal SSD and Yosemite Secondary external. It would be very bad practice to not have a known stable backup that I could boot from just incase. That being said my MBAir has been running Yosemite DPs since DP3 and I haven't really run into issues but better safe than sorry on my main machine.

 

[kaielement]

That sounds promising, thanks.

Still, I'm going to wait a good long while before upgrading my imac. My $800 ipad 2 is a piece of crap now because of ios 8, and there is neither a downgrade nor fix available. I expect the same sort of treatment of older macs from Apple now.

And your iPad 2 is almost 5 years old runnng software it wasn't designed for. Apple gave you iOS 8 as a way to keep using apps that might require it. But really you need to upgrade your iPad buddy and stop complaining my iPad air such is only a year old runs iOS 8 just fine. And as for the macs my 2012 MacBook Air has been running Yosemite beta just fine and I even found it seems to run a bit smother then with Mavericks.

 

[Cougarcat]

NO NO NO! No way - part of the uniformity of iOS is in the icons - looking at Android where there are no icon standards and it just looks a complete mess.

Yosemite has standards--or guidelines--for icons, too, actually.

That said, I agree. Icons with distinct shapes is more important with a cursor UI, when you aren't directly manipulating the interface. (Which is why I dislike the trend of square box icons in toolbars, which is infecting Pages in Yosemite. But that's a different topic.)

 

[Harry Muff]

Are you kidding me?
This will be released on thursday and it still works/looks like this?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef55bzKt7Lw

Bingo!


Same here!

 

[theBostonian]

I am not sure if I should download Yosemite on October 16 do not want to go through what I did with iOS8 on my iPhone 5 too glitchy.

I've used the Public Beta since the beginning and it's not had many glitches. The main issues have been (for me) GUI inconsistencies but actual usage has been smooth.

Windows Vista was presented in 2005.

It was ALL about transparency, that was the new hip thing 10 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#mediaviewer/File:Windows_Vista.png

The transparency of Vista is nothing like the effects used in Yosemite. So because Vista had a transparent Window bar and Start Menu that means it's just like Yosemite? Vista was far from "flat" and Tiger may have been flat but nowhere near as flat as Yosemite.

 

[mattburley7]

i thought i read that OS X final release was suppose to be finished last friday ready for release this thursday. could be and this build is for those in the beta program who want to upgrade to final on thursday.

 

[harrisondavies]

This is the most un-flat OS I've ever seen. You could not have picked a worse example if you'd tried.

You haven't seen Windows 10 then? That is eye hurtingly flat!

 

[IOwnAppleStuff]

And your iPad 2 is almost 5 years old runnng software it wasn't designed for. Apple gave you iOS 8 as a way to keep using apps that might require it. But really you need to upgrade your iPad buddy and stop complaining my iPad air such is only a year old runs iOS 8 just fine. And as for the macs my 2012 MacBook Air has been running Yosemite beta just fine and I even found it seems to run a bit smother then with Mavericks.

It's not "almost 5 years old". From wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipad_2)

iPad 2

Developer
Apple Inc.

Manufacturer
Foxconn

Product family
iPad

Type
Tablet computer

Release date
March 11, 2011

 

[SimonTheSoundMa]

So, again... "modern" is 2005.

Modern was 1930's to 1950's. You're quite far out.

 

[adm58]

And your iPad 2 is almost 5 years old

5 years ago there were no iPads. iPad 2 came out 3 1/2 years ago. And was on sale until about 6 months ago.

runnng software it wasn't designed for.

In what universe is this true? Apple designs the hardware and the software. If they didn't design iOS 8 for the iPad 2, it wouldn't run on it. The first gen iPad doesn't run it. It's not like the guy hacked his iPad 2 to run iOS 8...Apple released it. Apple designed it. Apple made it work on it.

 

[Takuro]

How did this thread shift gears toward a discussion about whether people like or dislike the new Yosemite design? Isn't this a subject that's been beaten to death since it was announced at the WWDC? Sounds like a lot of last-minute groaning before it's officially released.