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Mac OS X Yosemite Beta Opens

Posted by Unknown on from the smells-like-system-7 dept.

New submitter David Hames (3763525) writes Would you like to test drive the newest release of the Macintosh operating system? Apple is opening up the beta for Mac OS X Yosemite starting Thursday to the first million people who sign up. Beta users won't be able to access such promised Yosemite features such as the ability to make or receive your iPhone calls or text messages on your Mac, turn on your iPhone hotspot feature from your Mac, or "Handoff" the last thing you were doing on your iOS 8 device to your Mac and vice versa. A new iCloud Drive feature is also off-limits, while any Spotlight search suggestions are U.S.-based only. Don't expect all your Mac apps to run either. Ars has a preview of Yosemite.

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  1. Re:I can fix any current Mac OS. by macs4all · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can fix any current Mac OS. Just go into the apps folder (flower-shift-a is the shortcut), then into utilities, then run shell application. Enlarge the window to full screen. Bingo, you're in a bash shell where you can talk to a proper unixy command line interface.

    First off, it's "COMMAND", not "FLOWER", FFS. Name hasn't changed since Mac OS 1.0 in 1984.

    Second, it's the "Terminal" app, not the "Shell Application".

    Third, let's see you drive Photoshop from that "Proper Unixy[sic] command line interface".

    What a 'tard.

  2. Re:Flat UI Design by macs4all · · Score: -1, Troll

    If 10.3 (or was it 10.4) was not so buggy I would even consider to buy an old PowerPC and run that. iOS 7 is such a pain, I did not even repair my broken screen on my iPad. My next tablet is an e-ink Linux/Android, either a Kobo or a Nook. Good bye Apple, I was 'trustfull' customer of you the last 30 years and bought hardware worth 50,000 Euro over that time ... but thats it.

    Liar.

    If you have actually spent 50k Euros on Mac hardware over the last 30 years, you would almost certainly still HAVE a PPC-based Mac that still worked just lying around. You wouldn't have to buy one.

    And if you spent that amount on Mac H/W, you would have known about 10.5 (Leopard) (the last PPC-based OS X), which wasn't particularly buggy (certainly not nearly so much as Lion (10.7)). And 10.4 (Tiger) was actually a pretty nice OS; so, what "bugs" was it that you found so offensive?

    Good luck with those Linux tablets. Enjoy you OS-that-never-gets-updated, laggy UI, and malware/spyware galore.

    You'll be back.