Happy_John
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The betas seem to show that, along with tiding up Liquid Glass. Most reports say it's very stable.
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Apple's New Macs to Ship With macOS Golden Gate
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ry-guy
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I suspect why GG is being delivered with the new Sep 22 Mac is because Apple has finally made significant improvements to Siri-AI to be far more useful for users... especially for scavenging local data to answer users' enquiries.
I've been using GG for a number of weeks on my M3 Ultra Studio with its 96GB memory and internal 2TB SSD, and can confirm Siri-AI is very much better than the 'classic' Siri.
I'm finding that many things I've had to do in the past that took time can now be done using Siri-AI in a few nano seconds. It helped me setup several Shortcuts without much ado such as for Restarting, Shutdown, Opening favorite websites, running specific Time Machine backups, and opening/launching applications.
I recently was involved in a car accident and had to go through the process of having it repaired. Much paperwork was created such as eMails going back and forth, telephone calls, communications with Insurance Companies, and so on.
Here's a brief set of enquiries I made using my GG Siri-AI... As you can see the detail provided was IMO impressive, and this was presented to me in seconds vs. what likely would have taken ~30 mins doing my own searching for the data. Note also, Siri-AI was able to extract stated repair costs by poking into my eMail attachment files.
I also wanted to know details about recent visits to the UK, and again Siri-AI response was impressive....
These types of ***personal*** enquiries are being handled with ease with the enhanced Siri-AI in GG, and saving me valuable time.
I've been using GG for a number of weeks on my M3 Ultra Studio with its 96GB memory and internal 2TB SSD, and can confirm Siri-AI is very much better than the 'classic' Siri.
I'm finding that many things I've had to do in the past that took time can now be done using Siri-AI in a few nano seconds. It helped me setup several Shortcuts without much ado such as for Restarting, Shutdown, Opening favorite websites, running specific Time Machine backups, and opening/launching applications.
I recently was involved in a car accident and had to go through the process of having it repaired. Much paperwork was created such as eMails going back and forth, telephone calls, communications with Insurance Companies, and so on.
Here's a brief set of enquiries I made using my GG Siri-AI... As you can see the detail provided was IMO impressive, and this was presented to me in seconds vs. what likely would have taken ~30 mins doing my own searching for the data. Note also, Siri-AI was able to extract stated repair costs by poking into my eMail attachment files.
I also wanted to know details about recent visits to the UK, and again Siri-AI response was impressive....
These types of ***personal*** enquiries are being handled with ease with the enhanced Siri-AI in GG, and saving me valuable time.
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Isn't it assumed they would ship with Golden Gate in late September, weeks after the new macOS is released?
deaglecat
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The thing about that Golden Gate that concerns me is the level of apple intelligence (inc on-device models) which are baked in. I use Sequoia currently and you can get to be a fairly clean install without apple intelligence.
So not possible to go back to Sequoia or Tahoe on these new macs.
Yeah, some will love Apple Intelligence. Others, like me, prefer not to have it. YMMV !
So not possible to go back to Sequoia or Tahoe on these new macs.
Yeah, some will love Apple Intelligence. Others, like me, prefer not to have it. YMMV !
Jakol
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Ai will be a layer of bloat for sure. Even if you don't want to use it and can disable it it is still there eating space and lingering in every system app you use.
I would say some 'bloat' is useful if it provides better performance and capabilities.
The current GG Siri-AI appears to need from 6GB to around 35GB (depending on the Mac model and its storage capacity) of storage space by default, and it cannot be deleted easily even if one can figure out where it all is located. Although this storage space maybe considered 'bloat' by some people or not, one can Turn Off Siri along with removing background Siri-AI activities and its computer resources that scavenge local data associated with the installed Apps.
Apple has embedded Siri-AI software throughout macOS and has currently focused some of it for providing benefits to the user to scavenge data from the Mac's ***local*** data to respond to personal enquiries not requiring outside computing resources such as provided by ChatGPT and the Apple Private Cloud servers.
Cool, thanks. I'd love to have Tahoe's visual idiosyncrasies calmed down a little... or a lot... 🙂
It kinda depends how it's instantiated. Though I suppose if you're also considering things like the installed size of the OS, then yes.
Jakol
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wilderkun
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this will be the lowest level of Apple Intelligence baked in that they ever release.