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Apple Unveils What's Next For macOS Desktop OS: High Sierra (venturebeat.com)
Apple's next big macOS update is coming this fall, the company announced at its developer conference Monday. Apple is improving macOS Sierra, fixing bugs and making existing features and components faster and more reliable. The new version is called High Sierra. From a report: The update includes new features for Safari, with an update that stops autoplaying videos; Mail, with a new split-view mode; and Photos, with improved face detection, editing, and photo printing features. Apple is also bringing the Apple File System to Macs, after adding the technology to iOS in March. Apple is also bringing new virtual reality support to Macs with the Metal 2 framework.
Appleldot.
The next version will allow Macs to connect to the Internet and will be called Sierra On-Line.
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So, just saying.
I.e., who are you!
apple just invented drag and drop
I was hoping for a Rocky Mountain High in this release of Mac OS. Just have to settle for Sierra High instead.
Remember when Apple announcements didn't make you want to yawn?
The cool kids are busy playing with GCP these days, so as long you keep cranking out nice laptops to connect to that you'll probably still get a grand or so from me every few years, Apple.
I guess CD-ROMs will be making a comeback.
Having tried Sierra twice, followed by rolling back to El Capitan twice - I can only hope that High Sierra isn't a steaming pile of horse dung.
However I think suspect they will continue to remove features and call it progress. E.g. Like how they're removing user's ability to have a keychain password which doesn't match the user's login password (per Apple's reply appended to a "won't fix" designation on a bug report submission). I sometimes wonder how much longer we're going to have a terminal.
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The good news is that Apple isn't dropping support for any older Macs with this release. The A1342 Macbook is old, but makes it relatively easy to swap out hardware like RAM and the hard drive. I'm sure Apple will eventually drop support for those Macs, but it's good to see they haven't done so yet. The ability to upgrade the hardware is desirable, even if Apple doesn't seem to think so any longer.
Especially for those of us who have fond memories of Snow Leopard. Back in the days when successive OSX releases made the system faster and more responsive, even on the same hardware.
macOS could definitely use a mostly bug-fixes and performance improvements release. Windows is still the champ when it comes to flaky behavior and unintelligible errors, but macOS has been drifting in that direction over the last few releases.
Scrape the weird stuff off of Preview and Mail, and I will strongly consider an iMac Pro.
To a Lisp hacker, XML is S-expressions in drag.
apple testes for that now
Sierra Madre !
Why do I have to run macOS on a Hackintosh to get modern hardware?
If anyone doesn't get the joke: High Sierra is also the name of an early version of the ISO 9660 file system used for CDs.
Its almost as if there were some big event... perhaps even a world wide conference of some kind... that was going on today and regarded apple technology. If only I could find some information about it....
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What is Apple.com, Alex?
Actual quotes from the keynote:
"So [the marketing team] hopped in their minibus and headed out...."
“We talked to [the marketing team] and we said that the name might be misconstrued, but they assured us this idea is fully baked.”
To be blunt, I'm not sure what to expect out of the new OS. They've rolled some good ideas into it, but can it live up to the hype or are they just blowing smoke?
I still maintain that even I can come up with a better naming scheme than "places that no one outside of California has ever heard of".
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Maybe if they put enough light on new features, they could nip rumors in the bud and grow an operating system good enough for us to leaf previous versions.
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While they are at it, how about a browser option that prevents the advertisements from playing at 5x the sound volume of your regular streaming video?
High Sierra would obviously be on compact disks.
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BTW, enjoy your housefire.
I always have my browser muted unless there's something I explicitly want to hear. I just don't want to hear any ads or noises at all unless it's of my own volition.
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An Apple a day keeps your savings away.
Why are you playing adverts anyway? It's 2017 and there are any number of ways to consume media without advertising.
Well, aren't you special?
I will now be very disappointed if the default background isn't a HDR HIDPI 35MB RAW picture of a very specific plant.
My UID is prime and so is this number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
Plug in the VR and the gpu.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
That's not a very high bar you have there for measuring that kind of thing.
Instead of "High Sierra", it should be named "High on Crack".
Apple current uses OpenGL 4.1, which was released in 2010. It would be nice if they moved to OpenGL 4.5. which was released in 2014.
In my time travelling, I've seen this one before. The next version after High Sierra is called Rock Ridge.
Honestly, at this point the speculations are a bit green. Apple is just beginning the process of weeding out the issues that stem from rolling such a major update. We won't know if its good until they can pass around a version for the rest of us to try. It still won't keep the die-hard users from getting toked up over the prospect of a new strain.