That's what I said last year when I decided to skip Ventura. So this year I'll upgrade at Sonoma.1.
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macOS Sonoma Launching This Week With These New Features
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If you were used to the same on a phone or tablet, widgets might excite you, but not like the MacOS really needs a bunch of mini-apps (widgets) to be showing all the time. Even with a laptop we played this widget game previously and it's not that big a draw, just uses up desktop space instead of resizable windows.
Safari keeps getting more efficient with displaying multiple web pages with faster graphics, on my M1 based Macs its now doing speedometer 2.1 at 439 which is a lot faster then Crome ever worked. Yes there are still some graphics codec support I like to see it do such as AV1 which is still experimental.
The screen savers added a motion types like seen on ATV4K, but most here use a Mac then put it to sleep without much of a screen saver needed.
Underneath is where MacOS keeps improving but not necessary benefiting intel Macs so much. I noticed overall speed improvement a lot going from Monterey to Ventura, now that we have Sonoma it more like things like graphics with MetalFX combined with dev game porting Toolkit supporting DirectX version 12 shows promise. Background tasks such as search keeps getting better. Wish for some of the Apple Apps to be modernized as everyone feels.
After several months of using on two AS Macs this release looks very solid for once based on RC2.
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A distinct dock-friendly Folder/Subfolder of web apps would keep them under some control.
I am sure Apple could do an about-face if they wanted to. They can obviously write an Intel-to-ARM translation layer. It's purely a business decision, and it's despicable. I hope Tim Cook's successor stops hammering customers and actually allows Apple to live up to the "empowering users" mantra they inherited from decades past.
Back in the college day, finals referred to hell week. Today, Apple September, is the new hell weeks. Which actually last four months. Wonder if all my free technology hours of assistance for Apple products is tax deductible. 🤔
The line under Accessibility will be updated to reflect only certain MFi hearing devices will be supported when it goes Live, and those all support Bidirectional streaming. The ones with asterisks are the only MFi devices Apple has chosen to support in macOS Sonoma. If your HA doesn't have an asterisk, then oh well. Same for all Cochlear Implant users. Hearing Device list
As someone who is critical of the need for yearly major releases, I cannot wait to upgrade to Sonoma!
My biggest gripe with yearly updates has been that Apple tweaks so much under the hood for some architectural purpose that a lot stuff breaks. Apple silicon is rolling pretty good right now. As such there's not much need for Apple to make massive structural overhauls & there's not much to change for enterprise solutions. So Sonoma should be an improvement on stability & performance from Ventura.
My biggest gripe with yearly updates has been that Apple tweaks so much under the hood for some architectural purpose that a lot stuff breaks. Apple silicon is rolling pretty good right now. As such there's not much need for Apple to make massive structural overhauls & there's not much to change for enterprise solutions. So Sonoma should be an improvement on stability & performance from Ventura.
I totally agree. Apple has fallen into the Android and Windows more is better open pit. Less performance producing software will always beat bloated piles of garbage software. Two years with needed updates a good starting point.
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Looking forward to the new OS. I'll upgrade once its released because I enjoy new features even if they are small.
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My 2017 iMac is running just fine but isn’t supported? Seems like forced obsoletion.
OR… they became useful instead of a near useless calendar or weather widget. This came under Tim Cook's leadership remember. As usual, things improve and get reinvented because of the App Store.
I think it’ll be more useful than the old screen and definitely better than that horrible notifications bar they use on the current system.
Yep... My iMac Pro sits on Mojave to this day for this reason. I've got a number of 32-bit programs I want to use, and especially with all the nonsense Apple keeps putting in recent MacOS releases? I don't feel like I'm missing much.
I mean, it just doesn't make any sense. I can still run 32-bit apps just fine in the very latest Windows release, despite Microsoft moving their OS to 64-bit quite a while ago. But when Apple went all 64-bit, a lot of game developers and writers of more "niche" apps and utilities such as music/MIDI related apps just said, "Nope! Sorry... No interest in going back and rewriting that for 64-bit. We're done with that." And who can blame them, given the relatively small number of sales they got in the first place?
Underwhelming works for me if they tightened up the code and the OS is more stable than Ventura.
I'm NOT on the betas, but I've been following the beta tester threads and it seems like a few of them are having a couple very frustrating issues while most of them seem to be having a pretty good, smooth experience with the recent Sonoma betas.
So, like you I am very much tempted to load Sonoma on my personal M2 MBA and leave the work computer on Ventura for a couple more months.
I'm currently very happy with RC2 on my Mac. Guess on the 26th I will have nothing newer to install.
I've found it remarkably stable and like most of the changes I've found. I am hoping for a quick update to Adobe Lightroom Classic is when I try to use the PRINT module it not only does a hard crash, but the only way to get back into LR is to startup after resetting all of your personalizations!! Pain in the rear to be sure!! Interestingly, this is the only issue I've had with LR (going to the PRINT module) ... or any other app that I use!!
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If you looked at it this way, how far back should Apple keep supporting current OS? Besides the iMac from 2019 and iMac Pro (2017), the base requirement seems to be mixed with either a T2 security chip or 8-gen Intel processor.
Will be updating my Macs soon. Desktop widgets will be nice to have along with the new screensavers and safari profiles. Sad to see that my 2017 27" iMac cannot be updated
I always hate the idea of loading an OS to a display. Gone are the days of just simple plug and play display that just works. Don’t get me wrong, many selling today still largely function that way, but this studio display starts a terrible trend in the monitor industry to further incentivise planned obsolescence.
By standing up, you mean they resign and form a new company/find a new job?
Thats the strongest message engineers can send to Apple.
It will keep up. You should plan on downgrading now.
They could, but that would significantly increase QA complexity, because that feature pack now needs to be tested against multiple OSes, and newer OSes need to either stop supporting the feature pack, or be held back by continuing to be compatible. And to what end, exactly?
Stand up against what exactly?
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