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Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS Sierra 10.12.4 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available Too]
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Not if you live in Shanghai or are one of the millions of cricket fans around the world.
If only Safari would stop showing the annoying sidebar on the left, It would be great!
EL Cap and Sierra are design for Solid State Hard Drives (SSD) so you should change your hard drive in order to have a much better performance out of your old machine
Your right and when APFS is released it's kind of pointless to have a HDD as then it's totally optimaized for SSD.
Workforce? Pretty sure there are plenty of people using their computers at night who can benefit from this...
Pretty sure you can just turn that off in the View menu > Hide Sidebar
Totally disagree. Sorry.
But if there was no "substance" as you call it, then apple would not have released a new beta.
"Just a version bump"? Well there has to be a reason for it otherwise apple wouldn't have done it just for the sake of changing the number.
And it certainly IS news. I often find out about new betas on the front page of macrumors before logging into apple's developer portal to get the new seed note and checking for updates in the mac app store.
So I would be happy for macrumors to continue posting such information on their front page.
I can't wait for the stable release. Actually I can't wait for all the OS releases. iOS 10.3 is a big deal and anything that adds further refinement to the watch and atv 4 is welcome. I suspect they'll launch all 4 on the same day.
Nightshift is a feature I use all the time on my iPhone and iPad. While I'm usually not using my macbook after 10pm there are times I just need to work on something. No more need for f.lux now. I also hope that they have done something under the hood to further improve the battery life for my 15" touchbar. Right now it's better than average but definitely not as good as the mid-2015 15". Overall I'm still very happy with this machine and the keyboard has quickly grown on me. It's much better than all the hysteria would lead you to believe.
Nightshift is a feature I use all the time on my iPhone and iPad. While I'm usually not using my macbook after 10pm there are times I just need to work on something. No more need for f.lux now. I also hope that they have done something under the hood to further improve the battery life for my 15" touchbar. Right now it's better than average but definitely not as good as the mid-2015 15". Overall I'm still very happy with this machine and the keyboard has quickly grown on me. It's much better than all the hysteria would lead you to believe.
Downloading now. Let's see if this beta allows me to play a video via HDMI-connected display. Beta 4 seemed to break that function on macOS and iOS. (Either that, or my cable and projector changed!)
Many people will continue to use it, but for those that like to have their machine use as little resources as possible, nothing can beat a native solution. Much like all of the popular jailbreak features that iOS has incorporated. It just seems redundant. Calendars, reminders, notes are a different story.
I'm sitting here in Safari hovering my mouse all over the left side of the window, and I have no idea what you're talking about.
I welcome any new features and improvements to make it even more reliable and faster. Especially Safari needs attention in working with mixed environments (sharepoint and freezes).
Bring it on
It depends. While it isn't as robust as f.lux, the simplicity and glitchless operation is enough for me. I have too many issues with f.lux causing flickering and it randomly turning itself off, which is quite jarring in a dark room.
If you don't experience these issues with f.lux, it would win from customizability.
I probably will as well just since the color profile is probably similar to on iOS and I'm used to Night Shift on that now.
Not surprising, considering it's only an x.x.1 update. They usually add big features in x.1 updates.
What's this obsession with Night Shift? How about more stability, compatibility, and restoration of lost features (i.e. Disk Utility currently stinks, bad)?
The OS runs off of an SSD in a Fusion Drive setup. Unless you've rolled a custom setup and done something... a little weird.
No one said it was an important feature, it's just one of the dozens of changes going into this minor update. This is not a major OS update in the first place.
Also, macOS isn't tailored for the "vast majority of workforce" either, it's for everyone to use. I know a lot of devs who work better during the evening/night than day time and some already love NightShift.
This is a bug fixing update and also major releases should be stable as well. Apple shouldn't be postponing stability fixes at all, it should be stable from the get-go.
There is no obsession with NightShift, Apple added it in the first beta seed as a minor feature in a very minor OS update, it is one of the hundreds of changes happening for the 10.12.4 update and the only reason MR keeps talking about NightShift all the time is because that is the only visible change.