Apple Unveils What's Next For macOS Desktop OS: High Sierra (venturebeat.com) 79
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.
All Apple-related posts for the rest of the day? (Score:1)
Appleldot.
Re:All Apple-related posts for the rest of the day (Score:5, 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....
Next macOS version (Score:5, Funny)
The next version will allow Macs to connect to the Internet and will be called Sierra On-Line.
Re:Next macOS version (Score:4, Funny)
It will come with the game King's Quest pre-installed.
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on 128 floppy disks
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I doubt more than a hand full of /. ers grasp what you are talking about ;D
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Don't worry, those who don't are too busy learning the new API/framework/language-of-the-week.
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I recognize the reference but I'm 70 years old... doubt the young whippersnappers here would get it, though.
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I predict the subsequent version of macOS will be named "The Petrified Forest". ... They'll be running with Bogie-themed OS names for the next six or seven years.
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We need macOS Sierra Madre, just so we don't need no steenkin' badges to run the OS.
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Watches? We ain't got no watches. We don't need no watches. I don't have to show you any stinkin' watches!
Anybody got a match? (Score:2)
apple testes for that now (Score:2)
apple testes for that now
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That takes some balls to do...
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Try this "Country" star ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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I doubt more than a handful of Sloshdatters will understand what your pun is about.
Might help if a few were sober to understand.
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Considering most of your posts miss entire words, you're in no position to criticize anyone!
If a word can't keep up with the rest of my sentence, I probably didn't need that word in the first place.
Remember when... (Score:3)
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.
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This is comparable to the update from Lion to Mountain Lion, or to El Capitan from Yosemite (the park that encompasses El Capitan). Mountain Lion was a great OS due to its stability and the under-the-hood changes. I'd much rather have High Sierra be a stability and deep improvement release like Mountain Lion than a bunch of flashy jewjaws like more Messages Apps (that nobody actually uses).
Hah Mountain what?, what a joke, they started bloating it way back, 10.6 was probably the most stable and complete OS X will ever be - as close to an LTS release model Apple ever got, now it's just a creature of almost pure feature creep and hardware obsoletion... It was nice for a while - a bit of BSD+GNU+POSIX+XNU+ just the right amount of Apple's arrogance and insanity sprinkled on top for some unification, around 10.6 that felt just about right... but now the insanity is taking centre stage and all prev
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> Remember when Apple announcements didn't make you want to yawn?
No.
Back to the Future (Score:4, Funny)
I guess CD-ROMs will be making a comeback.
High Sierra Format (Score:3)
If anyone doesn't get the joke: High Sierra is also the name of an early version of the ISO 9660 file system [wikipedia.org] used for CDs.
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Thanks. I didn't get the joke until I read your comment and link. :)
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It's okay. We won't think any worse of you than we do of Apple's marketing department...
High Sierra (Score:5, 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.
Re:High Sierra (Score:4)
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?
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WTF are they doing?
When is the last time Apple made something amazing? Who would want to work there at this point?
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You can get what you want with a small change.
I brought over keychain files from my previous OS and they still use the password from that system when I view those specific files. The MAIN keychain is the same as my login password though.
Sounds like a great security issue tho. I'll add that check to my pen tests.
This bodes well (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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I can back you up on that. Using Windows 10 at work and at home, and it's rock solid.
To be fair I run OS X El Capitan, and Debian Linux too and they're also rock solid.
In fact....if you're not using obscure hardware or loading your machine up with crap, chances are, you won't have problems. Load a Mac up with similar crap to what some Windows home users do, you'll have stability issues on your Mac too. These days, operating systems themselves are generally alright until you load crapware and dodgy driver
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And better hardwares like 32 GB of RAM, etc.
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Sierra Madre !
Upgrades?
We don't need no steekin' upgrades!
(Still running Mavericks.)
Great! Now we just need computers to run it on. (Score:2)
Why do I have to run macOS on a Hackintosh to get modern hardware?
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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.
Rolled all the good puns in to that announcement.. (Score:1)
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?
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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.
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I will now be very disappointed if the default background isn't a HDR HIDPI 35MB RAW picture of a very specific plant.
Horrible Naming Scheme (Score:2, Interesting)
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On the other hand, High Sierra [imdb.com] is a steal...
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...with an update that stops autoplaying videos. (Score:5, Interesting)
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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.
An Apple a day (Score:2, Funny)