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OS X Mavericks Tidbits: System Requirements, Redesigned Activity Monitor, App Battery Monitoring, and More
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Glad that my mid 2009 MacBook pro will still be supported. The new features look cool, and it is about time for better support if you have more than one screen. Menu bar on each screen is a neat idea too.
>8 hours of battery? What computer are they using? Also, it would be cool if it could run a script when the battery gets to a certain level.
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2007 machines are from 6 years ago, not bad.
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Sounds like my '06 MacBook, but most computers that old are fine.
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2007 machines are from 6 years ago, not bad.
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Sounds like my '06 MacBook, but most computers that old are fine.
My Macbook Late 2007 is about to hit 6 years old. It would be flawless short of all the scratched plastic if the battery had not decided to explode. $100 I could put toward a new notebook there. I edit my podcast on that machine.
I'm sort of surprised all my devices make the cut for all of this. Probably the last 'round though.
IS there anyway to get the old notes app back as well as the linen background for folders on launch pad and notification centre?
I have a 3,1 MacBook (late 2007) and I can see I have 64 bit EFI:
$ ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi
| | "firmware-abi" = <"EFI64">
So... Am I missing something? I've never tried to boot it with 64 bits, though, but I think I can... I'm using Lion right now, and I hate it. Hate it. I'm going back to SL if I can't get Mavericks to work.
What do you think? Should I be able to run Mavericks despite apple's official "support"? I think Mavericks would run just as smoonth as SL on this machine...
How do you create custom tags? I haven't bothered with it as it didn't seem pertinent to my needs, however if it goes beyond color tagging by allowing files to be organized on a custom tag, that's a whole other matter.
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It's been very spotty for me. I've had to delete and enable my accounts on my Mac Pro, MacBook Air and iDevices. Finally got it working well.
I question their definition of "support". Example: my late 2010 MBA is supported by Mountain Lion, but not one of the key new features: Air Play. Buried in the technical notes, it explains that it can not be supported on my machine due to the graphics processor. A 3rd party program (AirParrot) works just fine mirroring my desktop and audio to my aTV.
So while Mavericks may "support" my MBA, I'll be shocked if AirPlay materializes. How knows what other little features are to be left out?
Um... no. I'm pretty sure that's the point. Notes is different in iOS as well... and for the much... much better I might add.
I wonder if tags are compatible with openmeta tags. I have been using the app "Tags" from Caseapps.com. I wonder if they are compatible or if I will need to retag all my files.
My thanks to all who posted tidbits on the new OS. Contrary to Lion/ML, everything sounded great - all the improvements that one could reasonably want in an upgrade ...
... and then someone posted this: "Software Update moves to AppStore".
Stuffed it!
... and then someone posted this: "Software Update moves to AppStore".
Stuffed it!
Way to make me feel really old, dude.
Well, you've been here a while too. We're both getting old.
Thanks for telling me about this!
Glad you like it! Make sure you get a bunch of referrals soon! I heard somewhere online they are only having unlimited referrals during this "beginning" stage. So I don't know how much longer they will offer that. But it is definitely a fantastic service!
OK, so I could achieve almost the same thing in Snow Leopard by saving as a folder a search for a particular label. Or to attempt what you've used labels for in another way, a saved search for documents modified this week.
Cheers!
Has anyone had a chance to look at how screen sharing works in 10.9? Screen sharing in both Lion and Mountain Lion have been giving me issues and I am hoping Apple has gotten around to rewriting the code for screen sharing in 10.9.
Also, has Apple fixed NFSv4 in 10.9. NFSv4 is broken in Mountain Lion. Nice to see that SMB2 is being used and SMBX is gone.
Also, has Apple fixed NFSv4 in 10.9. NFSv4 is broken in Mountain Lion. Nice to see that SMB2 is being used and SMBX is gone.
80's rock, but iOS 7 looks like crap and Ive is responsible for it.
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Yeah, side dock is weird.
as an ios Dev I'm quite enjoying ios7, how are you osx devs feeling about 10.9. should I spot the 99.00 to give it a go? also with OS X do you get the final retail version once released (as in it will receive updates, etc.) or do you still have to buy and wipe your machine? I've never really thought about it with IOS since to OS. basically comes free.
I have to admit, I'm not a fan of the new notes app. Okay, they overdid skeumorphism, I get it. But, the notes app looks like a cheesy cheap notes app I might have had in Windows 95. It's so plain, and boring. iOS 7 was a pleasant departure from Skeumorphism as is most of what I've seen from OSX Mavericks. But I have to say, I hope the notes app isn't the only one that looks like they forgot to remove skeumorphism at the last minute and stuck some app from System 7 back into OSX.
You can do custom tags, it's pretty easy actually, you click on the file, then the tags button and just type in whatever you want. It seems to automatically recognize the iCloud tag as what's in your iCloud too, so the tagging system seems somewhat intelligent.
Wish they had kept the horizontal lines in the notes app. They made it easier for me to keep track of which line I was reading.
What are you talking about? Maverick is not a location in California. Mavericks is. That is now the new theme for OS release names. Big cats are out. Locations of interest in CA are in.
This seems to be a hallmark of the post-Forstall era, and I for one welcome it. During Forstall's reign as software chief Apple's software had gotten progressively buggier and buggier, and Forstall didn't seem to really care. It was much more frustrating than any of the skeumorphic stuff, but it seems that with his dismissal Apple has finally came to its senses and is focusing on quality.
Take the podcast app for instance. I really didn't mind the reel-to-reel recorder thing, it was just a decoration. But what I did mind was that the app rarely worked right, crashed a lot, refused to do what I asked it to do etc. Now compare that with the first post-Forstall update. Yeah the recorder is gone, but so are almost all of the bugs. I have had 0 problems with it. Infinitely more important than whether or not the calendar has a leather attache.
