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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:Why does Apple charge for Mac OSX? by tbuddy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The don't charge for Mac OS X actually anymore. Didn't last revision cycle and the previous two versions were $29 and $19 respectively.

  2. Not Apple's first Yosemite-named Mac product by wernst · · Score: 5, Informative

    Those of us of a certain age will probably find the codename of the new OS X oddly familiar.

    The so-called "Blue & White" PowerMac G3 was also code-named "Yosemite" (http://apple-history.com/g3blue). Mine still works fine, 15 years later - it'll be old enough to drive and vote soon.

    Too bad my Yosemite Mac won't be able to run Yosemite OS X...