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Recap: macOS Sierra Launch Day
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Wait for a day or two before the return to Yosimite. Sierra is doing so much in the background. And measur in two days again....
I wonder if the next mac OS will support macbook air 2012. I mean I am curious what would be the excuse for this because between the macbook air mid 2012 and a macbook air 2014 the differences are so small ( maybe a better SSD and a slighlty better cpu and gpu).
Is macOS Sierra really worth the update?
I still haven't seen a killer feature yet making the update worthwhile??
Any ideas?
I still haven't seen a killer feature yet making the update worthwhile??
Any ideas?
It ran perfectly on my iMac (except for the major flaw caused by an El Capitan update) but that also was a lot faster machine which included 32GB of RAM. No real reason to upgrade, the MB is my work machine, and Yosemite was flawless.
Upgraded and it all seems fine, seems to be running nicely... but really can't see any differences apart from a change of font in Safari, and a Siri icon in the dock! Can only assume this is why there was no fanfare for the launch of it.
Had similar problem. Following fixed it for me:
The prefs files had filled up with crap and become >10MB. Removed the long keys from
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
com.apple.recentitems.plist
Using PrefsEditor (could probably also just delete the prefs).
Reboot.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...-yosemite-is-my-specific-problem-happening-to
Rest of Sierra is pretty uninsteresting to me (don't use Watch, iCloud or any Emoticon BS and Siri is pretty **** on my newish iPhone, so don't see why I would want it to be **** on my Mac). APFS is the only thing of interest/use, and that's not included :/. Any word on battery life?
One could release an OS update with features that don't work on a lot of moderately older models out there, then announce new models. Hypothetically speaking.
Simple answer Apple has absolutely no compelling reason to optimise OS X to run on low level/older hardware. Microsoft on the other hand is compelled too, as their primary product is solely software, and must run on a myriad of hardware.
Two comparable systems W10 will run smoother, as to the likes or dislikes of the OS they are for the most part subjective. Microsoft has done an excellent job of optimising W10 to run on older and low performance systems, Apple on the other hand relies more on the performance of it`s hardware.
I currently am using two Core M systems on OS X & W10, although the Mac has more of everything the W10 system is generally more fluid and more reliable when pushed hard. In many respects the tables have turned with Apple`s OS becoming more bloated and Microsoft's more efficient.
Q-6
wait, what? I thought for sure there would be an hardware event to go with the launch of MacOs.
Mate, what the hell were you doing splashing $$$ on a 7 year old computer for...?
You've got no reason to be upset.
Search for it manually, you have to hit Download.
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Be warned that the notification centre is now always white and it's kind of hard to read against darker wallpapers.
Nope, IIRC when Apple started setting up their data centers for iCloud, they when with linux. They'll do the same for Xcode, hence Swift is open source and they are putting a lot of Apple energy into linux based development and build systems.
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And the fact that Apple has had two down quarters YOY for the first time in over 10 years IIRC and its his fault for not ordering a new computer, instead of Apple's fault for not releasing a compelling new computer.
Hoping that Sierra works better on my 2011 iMac than El Capitan did, with constant wifi lock ups, full system lock ups, having to boot in safe mode at every update requiring a restart. Thankfully I'm planning on a new iMac in the next month or so, but this past year of using the mac has been the most painful and tedious I've had.
It would give me peace of mind if, by the end of October, they'd updated everything (made the MacRumors buyers guide all green) but from rumours it sounds like they're going to update like half of them.
I can sympathise with this. If there are hardware reasons, then fair enough, but otherwise why prohibit the installation - that just discourages high-end purchases and means that more machines will be running very old versions of the OS.
The only really good reason I can think of is not wanting to expend resources on testing too many configurations.
As someone else says, there will probably be a hack that enables the upgrade even if it isn't officially
supported.