While iOS 14 is the first exciting release since Scott Forstall left Apple, macOS Big Sur is the most messy and questionable one. The worst one in the history of OS X. UI and UX is a disaster.
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First Look: macOS Big Sur With Redesign, Safari Updates, New Messages App and More
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As far as I have seen I love the new UI/UX. It will look nice on my new Apple Silicon MBP this fall.
Wow, I hadn’t noticed the unfortunate initials for the new OS.
Yes. But isn’t changing Energy Saver to Battery on desktops akin to putting a fuel gauge in a Tesla.
My cpu is better then what is offered in mid 2014.. Only I5 in the 2014.. Mine is an I7 3.1GHz. Is the I5 a better/faster CPU?
So pretty 😍 I can't believe how many people don't like the redesign
Thanks. I hadn’t really given it much thought, but it never caught anything, pretty compelling evidence I don’t need it
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Haha, yah when windows gets clear concise, non-obfuscated, professionally designed and easy to use
Beauty is only skin deep! Let's see if Safari still has all the features we're accustomed to.
Agreed. Been using Macs since 1984, love them, but I feel I’m too old for this amateurish BS UI.
For who already familiar with Deepin Linux (Chinese-made Linux distributions), this is almost coincidental.
It looks better than the current macOS Big Sur beta, kinda sad, and yet some people love it......
Desktop battery exist and called : UPS.
If you have compatible UPS connected to desktop Mac, it would shown on Energy Saver. Not sure how desktop with UPS behave with new battery usage system preferences on Big Sur.
It should not be a surprise to anyone. The long drought of hardware and inattention to macOS made it clear Apple was working toward iOS only or a variant of iOS better suited to laptops/all-in-ones for a long time. It looks like the target is now the latter. macOS as people understand it today is deprecated along with intel.
I don't care for it but I understand it. It may turn out to be a winning choice: get the bulk of consumers with a platform "good enough" for common tasks.
So far, and a lot more. Can’t believe how many trackers get blocked. I’d love to get money for these scumbags tracking me. If they paid me, maybe I would like it
Like it or not, you're stuck with it. Where you gonna go? haha
Unless it's going to tell me if my Mac Pro's clock PRAM battery is going bad, I think the System Pref should just be called, POWER or is Apple planning to release desktop iMacs or Mac Minis with internal batteries too?
The sad things with Big Sure is, how touch interface can translated backward with mouse clicks and pointer? From UX perspective, it was clunky and jarring experience. Kinda similar with early Windows 8 mixed UI disaster which is fixed in 8.1 later and further polished in Windows 10. When it doesn’t look beautiful, it successfully distinguish desktop UI and touch UI components depending device type, or can be assigned manually if hybrid device.
I think using MacOS Big Sur with compatible touch screen display such as Wacom Cintiq Pro (I had one) are the only reasonable way usingBig Sur touch oriented UI.
I dunno since when MacOS no longer show disk drive by default, but it can be show manually with extra steps. My fresh Mojave Install also doesn’t show any disk on desktop unless I’m digging some Finder preferences to make them show up.
I actually have forgotten which versions of OS X are actually loaded on my two Macs... Maybe OS X / MacOS are like music "CDs".... you reach a certain age and you stop worrying about the latest versions! ;-)
I heard Scott Forstall is looking for a partner. 🤣
Noticed that. Another reason I‘M worried about the death of the desktop OS. Bending over backwards to homogenize design language is the first step.
Just a monitor.
I like the look and the features, but I won't get burned again. I will upgrade at 11.0.3 or 11.0.4, but we'll see what the early adopters say. Having said that, it looks we're seeing more greater creativity and innovation on the MacOS side, which is exciting.
The software isn't being QA tested near enough though, imagine with the C-19 work from home situation, et cetera. I think they either need to allow more employees to test (or developers to change code) or they need to go to a 2-year cycle and make more modest changes annually that correspond with iOS compatibility.
How about a USB-C fingerprint reader for non-portables, or a reader under the screen of the Apple Watch?
Still need to be able to tag photos (for searching purposes) and rename bluetooth devices.
The software isn't being QA tested near enough though, imagine with the C-19 work from home situation, et cetera. I think they either need to allow more employees to test (or developers to change code) or they need to go to a 2-year cycle and make more modest changes annually that correspond with iOS compatibility.
How about a USB-C fingerprint reader for non-portables, or a reader under the screen of the Apple Watch?
Still need to be able to tag photos (for searching purposes) and rename bluetooth devices.