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Apple Seeds First OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite Beta to Developers

HappyMBAowner said:
One of the 'under-the-hood' surprises was the removal of bit-accurate midi interfaces (used in music production) compatibility. 10.10.4 now supports only core-audio type. That means that people have to either spend hundreds of dollars to buy new interfaces or revert back to 10.10.3 (sometimes back to Mavericks is necessary). Anybody involved in music production should be aware of this. I talked to Apple support and there is no fix for this. They advised me to call the company to get drivers updated. Sometimes, we can't just wait as it may take weeks or months before an update is ready. This is quite upsetting.
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So it's not my imagination....every time we get an update we lose features and gain bugs. It's not enough to send me back to windows but I am very disappointed.
 
latterman99 said:
Why???? why bother will all that effort on an interum version when another major release is happening??? I just loaded the beta of 10.11 the other day on an aging 2009 MacBook and it works a LOT better than 10.10.3...... seems odd they are split like this on their development .......


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The purpose of interim upgrades is to address issues with security and stability. OS X Yosemite has only just matured with the release of 10.10.4 and for many it is the time to upgrade from OS X Mavericks. I only upgraded to OS X Yosemite upon the release of 10.10.3 when I was satisfied that many of the bugs had been ironed out.

It is foolish to upgrade to the latest release of OS X straight away. Better to wait. For example I shall not even be considering El Capitan until 10.11.3 is released.

OK to play with the public Beta of El Capitan on a separate partition but for general use absolutely not.
 
bladerunner2000 said:
No, that would be Snow Leopard. Mavericks was pretty great though, never once gave me a problem and likely because Apple fixed all the problems that were out with Lion and then again with Mountain Lion.
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Both Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion were outstanding OS X releases and fixed multiple issues with Leopard and Lion respectively.

Snow Leopard was perhaps the most desirable release of OS X mostly due to Rosetta but otherwise it is well outdated and unsupported.

Mountain Lion on the other hand remains supported and is rock solid stable arguably more so than Snow Leopard ever was.

Personally I had no issues with OS X Mavericks. Aside from the glaring SSL/TLS issue in 10.9.1 Mavericks for the most part a pleasurable experience.
 
chrfr said:
There seems to be an issue with the updater, which I ran manually. When the install is done, I'm left with a "Install OS X Yosemite Developer Preview.app" at the root level of the disk which shouldn't be there.
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Installed the combo update on my testdrive and all went smooth. Got that Installer in root too, it's only 5MB.

Now having a look into drivers for discrete graphics.
 
I haven't been able to see the update at all in my mac app store. Registered developer and yes the profile is installed. can anyone help?
 
HappyMBAowner said:
One of the 'under-the-hood' surprises was the removal of bit-accurate midi interfaces (used in music production) compatibility. 10.10.4 now supports only core-audio type. That means that people have to either spend hundreds of dollars to buy new interfaces or revert back to 10.10.3 (sometimes back to Mavericks is necessary). Anybody involved in music production should be aware of this. I talked to Apple support and there is no fix for this. They advised me to call the company to get drivers updated. Sometimes, we can't just wait as it may take weeks or months before an update is ready. This is quite upsetting.
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I think UAD Apollo still uses Core Audio so I think I'm ok here.
 
MacRumors said:



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Apple today seeded the first beta of OS X 10.10.5 to developers, two weeks after releasing OS X 10.10.4 to the public. Coming just a few months ahead of the public release of OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.10.5 may be one of the last significant updates to Yosemite.

The new beta, build number 14F6a, can be downloaded fro the Apple Developer Center.

It is not yet clear what's new in the OS X 10.10.5 beta, but like 10.10.4 and earlier betas, it likely includes bug fixes and performance enhancements.

OS X 10.10.4, the current version of OS X Yosemite, introduced multiple bug fixes and under-the-hood performance improvements, including the removal of the problematic Discoveryd process.

Article Link: Apple Seeds First OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite Beta to Developers
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So this article is extremely short, yet the editor of this article could not even spell check?
 
Guy Clark said:
Both Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion were outstanding OS X releases and fixed multiple issues with Leopard and Lion respectively.

Snow Leopard was perhaps the most desirable release of OS X mostly due to Rosetta but otherwise it is well outdated and unsupported.

Mountain Lion on the other hand remains supported and is rock solid stable arguably more so than Snow Leopard ever was.

Personally I had no issues with OS X Mavericks. Aside from the glaring SSL/TLS issue in 10.9.1 Mavericks for the most part a pleasurable experience.
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Using Snow Leopard right now, an outstanding OS on my late 2008 MacBook Air. Incredibly fast booting and opening apps, even on this slower SSD, and aestheticly pleasing, before the removal of Aqua began in Lion.

If I had to pick just one OS for it, this would be it, followed by OS X 10.11, which is a performance improvement over Mavericks/Yosemite and will be supported for some time to come.
 
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