macOS 'Big Sur' Unveiled With Updated Design, New Features for Safari and Messages, and More

[Duophonic]

This is for a lack of better word, gross.

 

[m3rih]

What about supported macs?

 

[AAPLGeek]

More like ToyOS Pro.

Apple has lost the plot.

 

[timidpimpin]

What about supported macs?

I've heard it's the same as Catalina.

 

[miniyou64]

Flat is so much better than the alternative.

Its so so not though

 

[aibo82]

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[michaelandrl]

Didn’t like the square icons but liked the design overall. It’s really more consistent now across the system. Even after Yosemite there were areas where it looked dated.

I feel like the hero wallpaper they chose made it look more like iOS than it is. The design changes aren’t that big.

 

[Mythos99]

What about supported macs?

 

[velocityg4]

Anyone else miss the simplicity of Mac OS 9?

RIP OS X. Big Sur is officially 11.0 as seen in the About this Mac during the keynote.

Whelp, I recall Steve Jobs saying Mac OS X would be a twenty year OS.

 

[eatrains]

More like ToyOS Pro.

Apple has lost the plot.

What functionality has been removed?

 

[The Phazer]

Very ugly. Lots of wasted space. Huge UI regressions hiding controls behind silly menus.

Probably time to switch to Windows.

 

[winglet69]

The dumbing-down continues apace. Not surprising. It's an OS for the times. Please make it bigger, shinier and simpler for the simpletons.

Sure glad I was able to get a free sermon on social mores from a tech company thrown in for good measure.

Hey Tim, any chance once you're done fixing the world you could fix Mail?

 

[ScreenSavers]

 

[Pman17]

Now for the big question. Will my Mac run Big Sur to hold me over till Apple Silicon?

Update: ****

 

[aibo82]

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Glad there's no 2012 retina love... least I am saved and still able to use the last professional version of macOS.... Yes Catalina even though its got more bugs than windows vista

 

[AAPLGeek]

What functionality has been removed?

Too early to tell but my comment is more in reference to the new UI. Absolutely atrocious for a desktop OS.

 

[darngooddesign]

It's not, I find the modern flat design language which started in earnest with Windows Metro, very difficult to use because it's not clear which part of the screen is clickable. In the 1990s with the widespread use of graphical user interface is, the faux 3-D look gave very clear user feedback with regard to interface areas.

I turn off all distracting interface movement on my phones and desktops, turn off transparency and most notifications - I like my tools to be tidy, efficient and most of all - functional.

Under Tim Cook's direction it is clear - based on his split with Jony Ive - that Tim neither knows what an engineer does nor has the aesthetic sense for understated simplicity.

A perfectly valid opinion and I understand what you are saying. Just hasn't been a problem for me.

 

[oldmacs]

Ugh so not only has the mid 2012 MacBook Pro been dumped, but its been dumped stuck on buggy Catalina. Feel sorry for people who bought one less than 4 years ago.

 

[drcre8tive]

Widgets? Seriously? Message effects? Who cares. Maps? Whatever. Just work with Adobe so all their stuff works on launch.

 

[quagmire]

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Curious on how a 2013 MBP and 2013 MBA can run Big Sur, but they dropped the 2013 iMac's.

 

[TrashBandicoot]

this thread in summary.

Embrace change it’s inevitable.
Excited for some change to MacOS

 

[johnalan]

I wonder if Big Sur on Apple Silicon is still Unix based, i.e. with all the Unix underpinnings and terminal access.

 

[Otaviano]

With all that white I will definitely be keeping macOS in dark mode.

 

[chrfr]

I wonder if Big Sur on Apple Silicon is still Unix based, i.e. with all the Unix underpinnings and terminal access.

Of course it is; all of Apple's platforms are.

 

[lixuelai]

Looks like I'll finally get to replace my entire stack by 2022. Been itching to do so for years but couldn't justify the performance and feature gains from a 2013.