I'll wait for macOS Montecito with Harry+Meghan emojis and wallpapers. Or whatever the final macOS with Intel support will be... probably next year and that's it for Intel. macOS 15 end of the road perhaps.
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macOS Sonoma Launching This Week With These New Features
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So Tempted....
Then again if it ain't broke , then again Ventura is most definitely broke , so what the hell !?
Then again if it ain't broke , then again Ventura is most definitely broke , so what the hell !?
Ah, that was it. I was thinking of the Game Porting Toolkit.
From what I read, it's possible for users to achieve compatibility for non-Mac games through that but the steps to achieve it look quite complicated.
We'll see what the future brings
I still remember my Performa 476 (which was an LC 475 with 68LC040 processor) with MacOS 7.1P3, I believe, and two easier launchers, full of widgets. Neither really caught on, but now, we have Launchpad for the same thing. Apple doesn't really kill ideas, they just regurgitate them every few years.
I'm looking forward to Sonoma and iOS 17.1.1 but I might have to wait to be safe.
How many things won't be included in the first production release for country Z? How many things will not work without restrictions? History tells us that nothing is certain.
Summer 2024 looks like a good date to upgrade. We are still fighting the bugs in the current release.Based on iOS17 and multiple other releases, I think I'll wait a week or two, until after the not uncommon "security & bug fixes" that get pumped out shortly after the initial release.
Absurd that a fully packed iMac 27inch 5K from 2017 isn't allowed to run this iteration of macOS where it is just a tiny incremental upgrade from the previous one. It makes clear that Apple is all about profit maximalization these days.
Apple has finally fixed the wake from sleep issue.
….well, one can dream
….well, one can dream
Indeed, or the annoying bug where Finder loses its focus on NAS volumes.
I love that you quoted this and love that I knew immediately what it was from. Triple Lindy for the win!
Will it have the same 80% battery level switch as iOS on the iPhone 15's? I'm REALLY sick of it always topping to 100% if I switch off the charger when the notebook is sleeping.
I loved Launcher in Mac OS 7! At first that is all I could do with the Mac (PacMac yeah!). Eventually learned to open up the HD and explore the OS more but Launcher was where all the apps were easily located.
As I have a 2016 MacBook Pro which will only go up to Monterey it's interesting to find that I see little difference moving onto my M1 Mac Mini which has Ventura. Perhaps that's the point? After about 5 years the incremental changes really build up but maybe it's all for the best that quantum leaps don't happen every time.
I guess you weren't around when the Apple II was US$2495 or the original Mac or the Mac Portable was US$6495. Yes, it's just now that they're all about money.
5k 27" iMac users have been left high and dry now there is no equivalent product for them to upgrade to. Yes, I know they could buy the Studio Display and add a Mini or Studio but I know several people who have now abandoned the upgrade route because they are confused by Apple's change of direction. They saw the iMac as a one-stop solution that was straightforward to implement. They see the new solution as applying to professionals or at least prosumers. Those 27" users also don't want to downgrade to a smaller 24" option which is also beginning to look neglected. Just to top things off the ideal of a 5K screen to achieve appropriate scaling leaves limited choice - Apple or Samsung with the LG option having received poor reviews. I'm not sure why Apple has done this or if there are any stats to show a decline in purchasing by older, more casual buyers.
According to Wikipedia, the Apple II was 1298 USD (equivalent to 6576 USD today).
The Mac Portable was 7300 (18075 in 2023 money).
It's not forced obsolescence because your iMac hasn't stopped working, and it is still going to get security updates.
I know prices of Macs were always higher then the other brands but the thing is that nowadays the quality is deminishing and the support for it also. Back in the days the ratio Price:Quality was 50:50 now it is 90:10.
But it is in a way, cause you don't get to run the latest OS. It gives at least the feel of obsolescence. And by the next iteration it will be.
If you think the update is tiny and incremental then it isn't a big deal if you don't get it. You will still get security updates.
These days? Steve Jobs' Apple stopped supporting all PowerPC Macs pretty quickly. 2011 Lion was the last OS to support PowerPC, two years after 2009's Snow Leopard.
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You can still run all the apps and services and you will receive security updates for years now. Additionally, every year there is a big "Current OS on unsupported Macs" thread; Sonoma will be no different so you'll be able to run it on your iMac. May take a month or two, but since you don't think much of Sonoma it shouldn't be a big deal waiting.
Hopefully, there are some performance improvements. Otherwise, the only feature that looks useful to me is "One-Time verification code AutoFill from Mail helps you quickly sign into sites in Safari, without leaving the browser". This might be the first time 15 years that I haven't updated to OS version on day one.
There were already useful third party widgets at the time and a whole dev kit for them. The AppStore is irrelevant. Widgets were not an idea of Tim Cook’s leadership….they were a Jobs thing. Either Apple failed to market them, or they were a stupid idea for a desktop OS. Widgets were essentially the visual model for the first iPhone apps. I think they were useful in prepping people for the iPhone app experience. Today it just seems stupid and out of place. I bet today they are being used in the opposite way. A tool to get people used to the next wave of either a more dumbed down macOS interface they want to push later….or for the headset UI. There is a reason and it’s not because Tim made them better.
Intel users are counting their days... :(