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Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
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10.5 Leopard was the last PowerPC version. 10.7 Lion marked the end of 32-bit support and the end of Classic environment (10.6 Snow Leopard was the last to support those). Apple iDVD still works up to including High Sierra.
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For my MBP 15" w/Nvidia late 2013, it was the worst OS for long time. Nearly daily jamming that took the machine to the knees, to an almost non-responsive machine, that took 5 minutes to close all the processes in order to reboot... 10.12 was so much better.
10.5 was.
32-bit support is still there; it will be there to a point even in 10.14.
That was 10.6.
10.5 was.
32-bit support is still there; it will be there to a point even in 10.14.
That was 10.6.
10.6 still had Classic environment. 10.7 did not (it was the end). There is no 32-bit kernel from 10.7 on.
Having hosed my login items with the upgrade to 10.13.2 I wonder if they've fixed this bug (which has been reported since 10.13.0).
Sometimes, with no other apps running, the media buttons don't work for iTunes. One of a host of stupid dumb bugs in High Sierra.
In 2012 with 'Mountain Lion' Mac OS X was suddenly dropped without explanation. I for one was not a fan of simple "OS X" and continued calling it Mac OS. Glad they went back to it with Sierra in 2016!
I've requested a white poo (always hated the positive discrimination...) and predict Ming to announce a yellow one this week
sorry but that is wrong, yes at first from Cheetah to Jaguar apple release Mac OS on a yearly basics but then they switched to 2 years in between each new version of OS, from Panther to Lion, then apple started officially on the yearly basis on 2011.
Don't just take my word for it ... hear it straight from the horses mouth
- Mac OS X 10.0 – code name "Cheetah", released in 2001
- Mac OS X 10.1 – code name "Puma", released in 2001
- Mac OS X 10.2 – also marketed as "Jaguar", released in 2002
- Mac OS X Panther – version 10.3, released in 2003
- Mac OS X Tiger – version 10.4, released in 2005
- Mac OS X Leopard – version 10.5, released in 2007
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard – version 10.6, released in 2009
- Mac OS X Lion – version 10.7, released in 2011
- OS X Mountain Lion – version 10.8, released in 2012
- OS X Mavericks – version 10.9, released in 2013
- OS X Yosemite – version 10.10, released in 2014
- OS X El Capitan – version 10.11, released in 2015
- macOS Sierra – version 10.12, released in 2016
- macOS High Sierra – version 10.13, released in 2017
sorry this just my personal opinion but I do feel that a new OS very year is making more harm than good.
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Steve Jobs said Mac OS X would be Apple's platform for the next 15 years, upon introducing OS X. So 15 years later, it was rename to macOS as Steve was right.
Maybe my knowledge of kernel functionality is limited, but 10.7 was the last OS X to be able to boot into 32-bit mode by holding down the 3 and the 2 keys at boot-up. What was lacking in order to have Classic environment software functionality was Rosetta, but 32-bit drivers (in my case audio equipment) and its UI software worked if I booted into 32-bit mode.
After 10.7, OS X was strictly 64-bit Kernel and no longer had the option to boot into 32-bit mode. OS X Lion 10.7, like 10.6 Snow Leopard was dual, but 10.7 had no Rosetta for Classic Software to work.
I can't wait for Apple macOS 10.14, "Very High Sierra." It will have amazing features, that will arbitrarily only work on the iMac Power Pro Mac Pro Power, 36" 18K screen, which will have dual PicoSIM chips, one for antitheft purposes, the other exclusively for using with Apple Music, in case you tuck it into your pocket and want to listen to music away from your home internet connection, because Apple's decided it can make more money forcing you to listen to streamed music, rather than letting you keep copies.
The new system will also feature anal recognition, (show anus to camera to unlock,) and if you hook two iPhone Ys to it, one taped to each iBall, BAM, virtual reality! The iPhone Y will be released in Dodecember 33rd, 2036, and you'll just have to wait until then to get these "amazing new products".
And many people will actually hold off buying a new computer or cellphone for at least five years, hoping they'll release them early.
Oh, one more thing.
You all already have macOS 10.14, Very High Sierra. We downloaded it to every iOS device in existence, even those that can't install it, (anything earlier than the iPhone 8 and anything smaller than the iPad 12.9",) but you can't delete it either.
Now... let's see how much of that I actually get right.
The new system will also feature anal recognition, (show anus to camera to unlock,) and if you hook two iPhone Ys to it, one taped to each iBall, BAM, virtual reality! The iPhone Y will be released in Dodecember 33rd, 2036, and you'll just have to wait until then to get these "amazing new products".
And many people will actually hold off buying a new computer or cellphone for at least five years, hoping they'll release them early.
Oh, one more thing.
You all already have macOS 10.14, Very High Sierra. We downloaded it to every iOS device in existence, even those that can't install it, (anything earlier than the iPhone 8 and anything smaller than the iPad 12.9",) but you can't delete it either.
Now... let's see how much of that I actually get right.
An Apple "Fusion Drive" is just two separate drives w/ different bus connectors: (PCIe) SSD and (SATA) spinning disk.
See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207584
If a Mac has a 2TB or 3TB Fusion Drive, performance may increase by splitting and installing High Sierra and major apps on the SSD and storing files not frequently used on the larger spinning disk.
There are several ariticals on how to split/delete/make an Apple Fusion Drive:
https://www.lifewire.com/split-fusion-drive-apart-2260166
WARNING
If the Mac has the 1TB fusion drive, it may be best to leave everything as is because the SSD portion of that is only 24gb. But the 2TB and 3TB Fusion Drives should have a 64GB or 128GB SSD (varies per model year)
Also note splitting a fusion drive will erase the factory recovery partition.
- 10.0: Important to finally ship. Dog-slow and unusable for a lot.
- 10.1: Important to ship same year. The usable 10.0.
- 10.2: Quartz Extreme and other improvements made it more usable. The release a lot of users made the jump to.
- 10.3: Safari, early FileVault (only worked for home directory), the brushed metal virus, and esoteric things like Pixlet. Might have broken certain Carbon apps with weird-colored text.
- 10.4: Spotlight, Core Data, and Dashboard widgets. Remember, the 2 years between 10.5 also brought a significant update that worked on Intel Macs.
- 10.5: Time Machine, Core Animation, bunch of UI fads, 64-bit UI. Dev cycle was slowed by iOS development.
- 10.6: The “good” release people remember. They took 2-years (thanks iOS) and fixed issues. This is what people want.
- 10.7: Particularly buggy with auto-save and thin scrollbars, but proper full-disk FileVault.
- 10.8: A less buggy 10.7 with its own issues.
- 10.9: Compressed memory, removal of some skeuomorphic crap, more in-line with iOS, but had its own issues.
- 10.10: More skeuomorphic purge, had its own issues.
- 10.11: New system font, Metal,better Mail/Notes. Felt so minor.
- 10.12: Siri, Safari Apple Pay, iCloud drive, and the most annoying “optimized storage”.
- 10.13: AFPS, Metal 2, Safari blocks annoying website features and tracking, but maybe the buggiest release ever.
It’s not the frequency of updates; it’s the lack of quality and persuit of short-term UI fads or dumb consumery apps, treating users as testers, and syncing releases to iOS.
10.13.2 appears to have broken a search function in iTunes.....we'd managed to get all the way to being able to type the first four letters of a radio station in an Internet Radio search. It's now back to one or two, depending on which letter of the alphabet, and if you go beyond that the search function disappears. This also happened through a couple of updates in 10.12.
And while the reliability of monitor spanning seems to have improved in .2, there are still weird glitches, like the bright red of the menubar to the right of the 1440th pixel or 1680th pixel on my external display depending on what mode the main computer is in, a bright red that only goes away when you click on the desktop of the external display.
And while the reliability of monitor spanning seems to have improved in .2, there are still weird glitches, like the bright red of the menubar to the right of the 1440th pixel or 1680th pixel on my external display depending on what mode the main computer is in, a bright red that only goes away when you click on the desktop of the external display.