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Apple Unveils What's Next For macOS Desktop OS: High Sierra (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the new-os-updates dept.

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.

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  1. Next macOS version by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next version will allow Macs to connect to the Internet and will be called Sierra On-Line.

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    1. Re:Next macOS version by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

      It will come with the game King's Quest pre-installed.

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  2. Back to the Future by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess CD-ROMs will be making a comeback.

  3. High Sierra by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:High Sierra by sexconker · · Score: 3

      What about removing the ability to install tons of applications because of the new system file protection/redirection/whatever bullshit?
      Hell, the last time I looked at a Sierra system, I couldn't get the built-in firewall to produce any sort of log.
      WTF are they doing?

  4. This bodes well by alispguru · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  5. Re:All Apple-related posts for the rest of the day by Altus · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  6. Re:Great! Now we just need computers to run it on. by Kryptonut · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hey, my 2008 octocore xeon Mac Pro with 32GB RAM & Samsung 850 Evo SSD's apparently isn't good enough to run new versions of macOS either, lol.

    Runs Windows 10 great though. And OS X El Capitan when I need it.

  7. ...with an update that stops autoplaying videos. by DidgetMaster · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?