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Mavericks = Underwhelming?
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No JK... iOS 7 looks like the bright contrasting colors of the late 80's. Which could be a good or bad thing.
So does a one-time purchase of a mac.
I replied to the guy who said, what do you expect for $20-$30. Apple will make millions each year and the people that do not understand under the hood features may not be pleased or notice any difference.
I think Mavericks is going to be a great release! I LOVE when they don't do massive amounts of new features, but instead refine the OS throughout, with a few UI enhancements, and a lot under the hood improvements.
Normal users won't know which changes have been made to RAM, App Nap etc.
Remember when they announced Snow Leopard?
Normal users won't know which changes have been made to RAM, App Nap etc.
Remember when they announced Snow Leopard?
The good old days... I miss Bertrand.
If Mavericks turns out to be as solid as SL I'll be thrilled.
The move from ML to Mavericks is actually pretty subtle. All those changes that 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion) are still here. Everything is fluid now I've noticed no dropped frames or lag of any kind. I can tell more GPU rendering is in use but that is a good thing.
People loved Windows 7 because of how much of a performance difference it had and it felt so much more polished than Vista.
I think Mavericks will have similar success. It feels very mature and polished. If I was running Snow Leopard, Mavericks would be the next jump.
People loved Windows 7 because of how much of a performance difference it had and it felt so much more polished than Vista.
I think Mavericks will have similar success. It feels very mature and polished. If I was running Snow Leopard, Mavericks would be the next jump.
The age of Exposé-type interface innovation is probably over since these major OS interactions were nailed on the first try. Now we focus on making the system last longer and making it perform better which is what we are seeing with Mavericks.
I personally like these type of performance tweaks similar to what they did with Snow Leopard and just make the system feel so smooth it gets out of your way so you can focus on work.
I personally like these type of performance tweaks similar to what they did with Snow Leopard and just make the system feel so smooth it gets out of your way so you can focus on work.
I find mavericks performance much improved. I'm using on an old mbp 13inch from 2009, and that thing is fast. The scrolling is much better and no more dropped frames!
It may be graphically underwhelming, but it fixes quite a few things Apple should have fixed a while back. Like the crappy performance Lion and Mountain Lion have.
So for me it's a big update, it feels like Snow Leopard performance wise. And I really hope that they wont borrow stuff from ios7. That thing is ugly.
It may be graphically underwhelming, but it fixes quite a few things Apple should have fixed a while back. Like the crappy performance Lion and Mountain Lion have.
So for me it's a big update, it feels like Snow Leopard performance wise. And I really hope that they wont borrow stuff from ios7. That thing is ugly.
Am I the only one who thinks Mavericks sounds very underwhelming? The vibe from the wwdc announcement just seems like Apple is sortof lost and not sure where to go from here. Mavericks, and maybe also iOS 7, just seem like more of the same (but different) gui. I'm underwhelmed
OSX Mavericks' OpenGL stack update to 4.1 is worth the $30 alone!
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So, can you speak to gaming performance under 10.9?
I don't really game with my mac (things get toasty real fast if I do). It's more work than anything else. I do run OpenEmu from time to time, but I haven't tried it on Mavericks yet. So no, I can't speak about gaming performance under 10.9, yet the user interface feels much faster than in 10.8.
Am I the only one who thinks Mavericks sounds very underwhelming? The vibe from the wwdc announcement just seems like Apple is sortof lost and not sure where to go from here. Mavericks, and maybe also iOS 7, just seem like more of the same (but different) gui. I'm underwhelmed
No, not in the slightest.
Your forum contribution however...decidedly underwhelming.
I can see where the OP is coming from *if* he/she is somewhat new to Apple's way of progressing through their OSX cycles. Not a lot of mind-blowing innovation probably since Leopard. Still, 10.9 is what 10.7 could have been… and what 10.8 should have been. I for one am pleasantly surprised by all the subtle tweaks Mavrix brings.
It's not a surprise that you find Mavericks underwhelming. It's hardly a revolutionary update, but it tightens the gap between iOS and Mac OS with further integration and coherency between the two systems. It's definitely a step in the right direction, albeit a less significant one. These are exactly the type of updates that have allowed Apple to build a well-connected ecosystem that remains to be industry leading.
I find the polish and performance improvements of Mavericks to be very impressive. It seems to be easily the best release of OSX since Snow Leopard.
Early '80s. That book was published in 1980 (I know, because for some odd reason, there's one in a pile of books on the reception desk at work, which is a TV station!)