And in Safari, there is also a program that will allow you share files between your family. And you can communicate seamlessly between your Mac computer, and a smart phone, and be able to pick up where you left off on your computer to your mobile device (usually something like the iPhone or iPad) and vice versa. I also like how this OS has a side panel that you can get to come out, so you can make use of your widgets or programs such as calendar. You still get the traditional gray colors with the desktop, but now you can change it to black. And I especially love the plug-and-play interface that allows you to hook up a device such as a printer without a driver. And now, instead of offering the tools such as iMovie, iDVD and others that were originally part of iWork, they come as part of the OS. It is truly the Mac OS reborn and one of the ultimate power-user's OS. I love the functionality of the various programs that come with it, and how well they work with your existing programs. Along with the improved and more powerful Mac computers, I have been able to do things in programs such as Photoshop that I wasn't able to do before. It even performs well on the more recent versions of the MacMini, which I have. OS - X Yosemite is like a breath of fresh air and has so many good functions and ways you can customize your desktop, and run software far more powerfully than ever before. Before getting this, I had been using Snow Leopard on my old computer. But the main focus of this review will be about the latest Mac OS. which allows you to divide your hard drive into Mac and Windows hard drives. As many of you know by now, Mac is about the only computer and operating system that will run both Mac and Windows built-in - through an application called Bootcamp. This time around, it’s finally a fair fight.I recently got Mac OS - X Yosemite when I got my new computer. Even the most ardent Mac fan will admit that iOS 7 was a bigger update than Mavericks. Apple’s dramatic leadership restructuring in 2012 put Federighi in charge of both iOS and OS X-a unification of thought that has now, two years later, resulted in a clear unification of action. These new, shared triumphs run the gamut from traditional frameworks and APIs to cloud services to the very foundation of Apple’s software ecosystem, the programming language itself. Yosemite’s new look continues the pattern iOS got its visual refresh last year, and now it’s OS X’s turn.īut at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple made several announcements that point in a new direction: iOS and OS X advancing in lockstep, with new technologies that not only appear on both platforms simultaneously but also aim to weave them together. Going in the other direction, Core Animation, though an integral part of the entire iPhone interface, was released first on the Mac. For example, AVFoundation, Apple’s modern framework for manipulating audiovisual media, was released for iOS a year before it appeared on OS X. OS X and iOS have been trading technologies for some time now. Yosemite aims to fulfill that commitment-but in an interesting way. And yet for the past several years, Apple has loudly and publicly insisted that it remains committed to the Mac as a strong, independent platform. Last year, some Apple watchers had openly wondered whether Apple would even bother updating the look of OS X. AdvertisementĪh, the old tension: which platform does Apple love more? iOS continues to dominate Apple’s business in terms of unit sales, revenue, and profits. Of course, this change comes a year after iOS got its extreme makeover. The new OS’s headline feature is one that’s sure to make for a noteworthy chapter in the annals of OS X: an all-new user interface appearance. To signal the Mac’s newfound confidence, Apple has traded 10.9’s obscure surfing location for one of the best known and most beautiful national parks: Yosemite. This year, finally, Apple is ready with the new. Either way, in last year’s OS X release, Apple tore down the old. Or maybe Mavericks was just a victim of time constraints and priorities. If iOS 7 was the explosive release of Jony Ive’s pent-up software design ethos, then Mavericks was the embodiment of Craig Federighi’s patient engineering discipline. It was the first OS X release from the newly unified, post-Forstall Apple. Non-subscribers can buy the e-book from the iBookstore or the Amazon Kindle store.īut for all its timidity and awkwardness, Mavericks marked a turning point for OS X-and in more than just naming scheme. Read it your wayDon't want to read an article this long on the Web?Īrs Technica premier subscribers can download a (free) Kindle or iBooks-compatible EPUB version of the complete review from the links in the "tools" menu on the upper right of each article page.
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