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Apple Seeds First OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 Beta to Developers
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As far as computer updates are concerned, let's bring on desktops -- iMacs, a Retina Cinema display/hub, and a Haswell Mac Mini. Not much more they can do with the laptops until Broadwell finally enables integrated graphics Retina support and 4K to filter across the entire range.
The OS's problem isn't features; instead, it has some long-standing technical and organizational things that ought to be resolved. Finder still is a mess, barely updated in a decade. I still have to use third party utilities like Forklift to make it functional. There's still no 12-bit support, not even 10-bit support for color, inexcusable in an allegedly graphics-oriented product. Driver support for gaming is patchy, not a big deal for me but a very big deal to a lot of people. And each look at the Console log is a depressing reminder of how much quality has slipped in the past seven or eight years in software engineering on the system. The new password manager, useful as it is, does not accommodate some websites restrictions on certain characters like hyphens, and is effectively blocked by some other websites.
Where the "features" are needed is in the applications, for example giving the increasingly threadbare Aperture what it needs to compete with other choices that have far advanced in the four years since it was last comprehensively updated.
In both respects -- the quality of the OS, and the features of the applications -- Apple is dealing with long-standing issues. I think both have been evident almost from the moment Steve Jobs' health started to worsen again in 2007-08. Is it too much to hope that with more energy in upper management again, Apple has been playing catch up? I guess we'll soon find out.
The OS's problem isn't features; instead, it has some long-standing technical and organizational things that ought to be resolved. Finder still is a mess, barely updated in a decade. I still have to use third party utilities like Forklift to make it functional. There's still no 12-bit support, not even 10-bit support for color, inexcusable in an allegedly graphics-oriented product. Driver support for gaming is patchy, not a big deal for me but a very big deal to a lot of people. And each look at the Console log is a depressing reminder of how much quality has slipped in the past seven or eight years in software engineering on the system. The new password manager, useful as it is, does not accommodate some websites restrictions on certain characters like hyphens, and is effectively blocked by some other websites.
Where the "features" are needed is in the applications, for example giving the increasingly threadbare Aperture what it needs to compete with other choices that have far advanced in the four years since it was last comprehensively updated.
In both respects -- the quality of the OS, and the features of the applications -- Apple is dealing with long-standing issues. I think both have been evident almost from the moment Steve Jobs' health started to worsen again in 2007-08. Is it too much to hope that with more energy in upper management again, Apple has been playing catch up? I guess we'll soon find out.
I'm afraid so, it's not terrible, but has crashed on me a couple of times (usually when trying to shutdown or when closing mail).
I upgraded from SL and mail looks nicer, love the new search bar and fast searches.
(I connect to Exchance, Gmail and Go-daddy mails servers.)
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With you, if on battery I would rather save some power, the only time it's annoying is if I connect my MB to a TV via HDMI and wish to stream Netflix, I have to keep my laptop open to avoid it shutting off the wifi connection.
Not exactly the same thing, but just the only thing I have seen like this which has caused any, be it slight, annoyance.
10.10 SHOULD be free, especially after all the hype from Apple itself about 10.9 being a free download.
They set the bar at Free; it's hard to go back to pay now.
Wouldn't it be refreshing for the release to come at the same time as the announcement for a change? These previews are starting to seem a bit desperate to me.
No, it would be foolish at best. We'd have a totally new OS with new features and NO software for it.
Exactly, it would be terrible to ship a major OS release without any external beta testing and no time for devs to make the necessary updates.
This is a development conference. Although the whole world follows the previews for OSX and iOS, they're really for the developers. If Apple didn't give a presentation announcing what's new, it would all come out to the world in bits and pieces from the developers, and that would hardly make sense.
Audio
Hopefully they've been working on audio. I's been glitchy for me. My Apogee hardware has dropouts all over the place and can't set buffer size less than 128 in Logic without distorting. I can set my internal card to 32 samples, with no problem. Something is wrong with core audio and external devices.
Hopefully they've been working on audio. I's been glitchy for me. My Apogee hardware has dropouts all over the place and can't set buffer size less than 128 in Logic without distorting. I can set my internal card to 32 samples, with no problem. Something is wrong with core audio and external devices.
Is there anyone out there with a nMP and that had this problem (below) on 10.9.3 that could test davinci resolve on 10.9.4?
I am on a nMP with d700s and was caught out with this (stupidly had auto-update on).
Ta,
Becan
I am on a nMP with d700s and was caught out with this (stupidly had auto-update on).
Ta,
Becan
Yes, down with progress! Full STOP I say!
Progress would be making iOS 7 more mature and stable. Phone crashed on me today without me touching it - for no reason, cause seems to be some of Apple's own functions. Don't need more aesthetics, Mavericks is great, a lot better than previous Lion versions, keep improving the guts of it!
back at you.
Trim on 10.9.4 b1?
Had no luck getting Trim enabled with ChameleonSSDOptimizer ver. 0.94
after updating to this preview. Install looks like it works, but Trim was not enabled.
Trim Enabler 3.2.2 worked on the first try.
???
MBP late 2011 15", 3rd party SSD, Plextor M5P 256GB
Had no luck getting Trim enabled with ChameleonSSDOptimizer ver. 0.94
after updating to this preview. Install looks like it works, but Trim was not enabled.
Trim Enabler 3.2.2 worked on the first try.
???
MBP late 2011 15", 3rd party SSD, Plextor M5P 256GB
The command to enable TRIM support for non-Apple SSDs does not work on 10.9.4 beta, too.
I see your point, but the pre-announce to the "public" which has little to do with developers, including hardware pre-announcements seem to be getting longer and longer and more commonplace through the industry
In the case of a new OS release, what's the alternative? The OS ships in the fall and they give it to developers next week. Should they not make a presentation that the general public will see, so all the details come out from what developers pass along? Or what else would you do instead?
The Sum of All Fears?
So no TRIM support at all for any 3rd party SSD in 10.9.4?
- Command line in terminal
- Trim Enabler 3.2.2
- ChameleonSSDOptimizer ver. 0.94
That's would be REALLY bad news!
~ Cheers
So no TRIM support at all for any 3rd party SSD in 10.9.4?
- Command line in terminal
- Trim Enabler 3.2.2
- ChameleonSSDOptimizer ver. 0.94
That's would be REALLY bad news!
~ Cheers
THANKS.
I also just realized that I misread the article, and now see this applies only to people using a Mac Pro, and not other Macs. My bad. But thanks for the info anyway, as I am sure others could use it.