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macOS Sonoma to Launch on September 26, Featuring Desktop Widgets, Safari Profiles, Game Mode, and More
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I'm looking forward to this update. Does anyone know if game mode is working with emulation? I have found my laptop to work pretty good for dolphin and CEMU, but any improvement helps.
Luckily my 2018 MBA will run Sonoma, and hopefully well enough until the M3 MBA comes out.
Looking forward to seeing speedometer 2.1 results in Sonoma lol, sounds like its resulting in higher scores compared to Ventura.
I would definitely appreciate the ability once again to schedule my computer to start up and shut down at a certain hour without using Terminal.
Fair, but Apple has been aligning features and software releases for years now. This is the first year in a while where they haven't truly staggered Mac OS and the other software releases in the fall.
Wow—default wallpaper that looks like Windows XP, and flat design that looks like Windows 8! Great job, Tim Cook! "Can't innovate anymore, my a**!"![macos-sonoma-widgets.jpg]()
415 on 13 inch MBP M1, and apart from Wallpaper settings it is seriously quuuick.
For the past years it felt kind of stupid to have a feature on iOS but then go to your Mac and realize „ah can’t do that here - have to wait another month“
Apple will likely update the Magic Mouse, Trackpad, and keyboards whenever they refresh the iMac. The Mini and Studio don't ship with peripherals which means they're ordered separately and thus the peripherals are grandfathered into the EU's USB-C mandate. The iMac and Mac Pro do ship with peripherals which means they'll need to be USB-C whenever Apple updates them with M3 variants, with the Mac Pro logically being last on the list.
You don’t actually need boot camp to instal or run windows, Linux, bsd, whatever on an intel mac. It just automates the partitioning, installation and driver updates
If you already have windows or whatever installed it will still be there. If you want to instal something else you still can
Thank you, I just now realized why he mentioned the Mac at all. A very Apple way to do it, saying he wants to talk about the Mac as a way of saying he has nothing new to say about the Mac.
Wonder how polished this will actually be (and if there will be a corresponding macOS version of the 'Journal' app coming for iOS).....
I’m not sure if I will be as quick to update to Sonoma as I was to Ventura, which I upgraded to at the .1 update. I have a few more apps and really want to play Baldur’s Gate 3 with my cousin, so first want to see if everything works as intended.
Really, I thought the kinks were typically worked out by .1 releases. It was .0, .0.1, .0.2 … 0.n that were the most likely to be problematic.
The people who run production studios for designers would only upgrade at .5 or .6… I’m not that conservative, mostly I just use the Apple software and it’s pretty well tested.
Glad it's not just me having that issue. So frustrating.
In my experience everything has worked much better in Sonoma then Ventura for months
When Tim mentioned that WWDC 2023 Mac intros and commented we had introduced the best 15" laptop, the 15" MBA, he was being clever with his words, because the MacBook Pro laptops are 14" and 16". Not to mention the very popular 13" MBA. As you said he was diffidently pushing holiday sales.
This probably means that there will be no October event, although we did get one in 2018, featuring the new iPad Pros, redesigned MacBook Air with Retina display, and the new Mac mini. Now, however, I don't think we'll get one.