Ditto here. I posted this in the original GM thread but was given a warning because my comment was "useless."
It is indeed a speedy browser compared to ML!
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Ditto here. I posted this in the original GM thread but was given a warning because my comment was "useless."
It is indeed a speedy browser compared to ML!
Time travel is the major feature of the next generation OS X, 10.10 that will come next year.
Just wait and see
well crap, I knew I should have waited for public release. Now I have to smash the life of my SSD (fusion) again for something I shouldn't have had to do. Never upgrading to the next OS before release again. In fact not going to upgrade for at least 2 weeks after release for reviews from now on. Anyway I am not going to download this new bug fix since public is just a couple of days away. I am not having any major issues with my version so I will survive until then.
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Sounds like the mods need to grow up and get off their high horse lol
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Sounds like the mods need to grow up and get off their high horse lol
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Because an Asus is not a Mac.
I still do use the 2010 model I need more than one Mac you know, the retina is super fast at opening apps and booting/shutting down which is great, its just the performance of those apps which arent to standard and the graphics which are laggy. But I have lots of faith in Mavericks so hopefully it will fix my issues.
But the reason I am not using the 2010 as my main: the screen now looks crap compared to the retina one, slow at opening, booting and shutting down, doesnt have the slim form factor and portability of this laptop, and it doesnt have a built in HDMI port which is handy at work.
I just wish the graphics were less laggy, it didnt overheat and it didnt have a ghosting issue (I do need to get it replaced for ghosting issue).
If you're talking about Safari and the way scrolling felt before... well it feels fantastic in Mavericks. In ML when you did the two finger scroll up and down you could see it stutter, but now it's buttery smooth. Low CPU usage when scrolling too, if you fire up Quartz Debug you can check that it's scrolling now at 55+fps (instead of 20ish on ML), and if you disable VSync you can scroll at over 100 fps.
I know how it sounds, who the hell needs 100 fps to scroll their web browser, but let me tell you it feels damn nice!
Hmm, if time travel really is coming in 10.10, shouldn't that be "Time travel is the major feature of the next generation OS X, 10.10 that will come last year."?
Do I recall correctly that I read somewhere that this is, in part at least, because more memory is dedicated to the integrated graphics in Mavericks than in ML - something like 1GB instead of 512MB?
Don't think it's that, and my reason is that the GT650M always had 1GB available and even when I would force discrete graphics in Mountain Lion it would scroll horribly. Now I'm getting these very high frame rates while on integrated graphics or discrete. Think it's mostly the change to the Safari rendering model and maybe a tiny bit of it is down to the OpenGL improvements.
Yep those who think they are running the GM ahead of everyone else have to start all over again with a clean install
You won't get any software updates regardless. So unless you're happy to be stuck OS X 10.9.0 for the duration, you're wiping your machine and installing again.
not sure that is true. I was running betas before and still received updates after going live on several of my devices without doing the re-install on all of them.
Does anyone know if it comes with new GPU drivers? Particularly, for "PC" GPUs that you would put in a Mac Pro?
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Aaaahhhh good one!
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Hmm, if time travel really is coming in 10.10, shouldn't that be "Time travel is the major feature of the next generation OS X, 10.10 that will come last year."?
Aaaahhhh good one!
Post a link? As far as I know it's 100% impossible. And I should know, I'm a MSP and qualified engineer. I'd like to see how someone claims to have done this.
