by jillesvangurp on 9/17/2024, 5:47:54 AM
I tend to wait a few months. Most Mac OS releases are relatively not that important to me.
I use Firefox and absolutely none of the i* stuff (photos, mail, etc.). Essentially all my tooling is OSS stuff that also works on Linux. So, most Mac OS release notes to me read something like "I don't use that. I don't use that either. Don't care. Don't care. Whatever. Etc." There's very little to get excited about in this release. I don't even own an iphone and use a Pixel 6. So the integration with iphone stuff is also not relevant to me.
I like macs mainly for their hardware, which is awesome and completely and utterly unrivaled in the market by any PC manufacturer for some reason. A few manufacturers come close but you always end up with some compromise on the thing being loud and hot, or underpowered, having some crap touchpad thing with a a nipple (all Lenovo's), having a relatively shit screen, etc. I love having a laptop that is fast, quiet, cool, where I never even consider plugging in a mouse, with a beautiful screen, etc. And I like not having to waste brain cycles on drivers and other crap to get that hardware working.
The main point of Mac OS for me is that it's enough like Linux that I don't mind it. I use iTerm2 for command line stuff. Intellij, VS Code, and the usual range of stuff for communicating that you'd be able to install via snap, flatpak etc. on Linux. Mostly some of that stuff can be a bit flaky on Linux but I managed to get most of that working in the past.
I actually used Arch for half a year for work. Worked great. Except the laptop was a dreary thing with basically crap everything (screen, CPU, GPU, track pad, keyboard). So, I was happy to get back to a mac book pro.
So with this update, I'll wait a few months before risking an upgrade.
by quintes on 9/17/2024, 5:47:13 AM
I never upgrade first. I wait.
by toomuchtodo on 9/17/2024, 4:56:00 AM
It was free to upgrade and only took 15 minutes while I was away from the hardware ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Frankly, I only care if the new system is faster chrome, and Safari currently has only two advantages for me:
A. Live Text is really easy to use, I think Apple's server cost is high for this OCR feature, which is not supported by Chrome on Windows or macOS (pausing to copy video text on YouTube is very useful)
B. Compact layout and UI design really increase the vertical space, it can integrate tabs, address bar, and extension icons on a single bar, which is great, I use trackpad gestures to switch and close tabs, so it doesn't increase the difficulty of operation, which I have reported to Google many times but their UI design is slow to improve, for the screen of the first resolution, I believe that Chrome's UI will take up a huge space
In addition to this, there are too many disadvantages of Safari:
The speed of switching between multiple tabs is not comparable to chrome at all,Safari will drop frames when youtube videos are played at twice the speed of 4k,Insufficient extension,I'm a senior browser enthusiast,I still chose chrome for speed,Chrome's current problem is that two-finger zoom is not sensitive
2.iphone
I've long since stopped using an iPhone, so I don't care about the phone mirroring feature that I've experienced for a long time, in essence, the wireless network they use to transmit data is always not the ultimate smooth experience
I'm using a folding screen phone, believe me, a 220G, thinner than the iPhone folding machine is the ideal Internet terminal, watching the content is very comfortable, unless you like the phone to record videos, otherwise I can't think of a reason to continue using the iPhone in 2024
3.ai features and interactions
I'm very tired of making wheels repeatedly, I believe that Apple AI 10,000% is not as good as my GPT4 is a hundred times better, but Apple's advantage is that it can be linked to the hardware of the computer, which has the potential, but it is not enough for me to pay for it at present
4. So far, Apple has few advantages left
UI and other aesthetic design, I give this one full marks
The leader of the ARM chip PC, such as the MacBookM1, the peripheral power consumption is 5W (screen and the like), and the video SOC is only 1W, so that the power consumption of the whole machine is 7-8W, and the 49Wh battery can also play 7 hours of continuous video
Below is the original document, I am afraid that the machine translation is not accurate, I am currently also studying IELTS, but English is really difficult for me, I am now working in Viet Nam, I am very much looking forward to studying in English-speaking countries, no matter what, I expect Apple to continue to improve in software and hardware, do not squeeze toothpaste1.safari
Frankly, I only care if the new system is faster chrome, and Safari currently has only two advantages for me:
A. Live Text is really easy to use, I think Apple's server cost is high for this OCR feature, which is not supported by Chrome on Windows or macOS (pausing to copy video text on YouTube is very useful)
B. Compact layout and UI design really increase the vertical space, it can integrate tabs, address bar, and extension icons on a single bar, which is great, I use trackpad gestures to switch and close tabs, so it doesn't increase the difficulty of operation, which I have reported to Google many times but their UI design is slow to improve, for the screen of the first resolution, I believe that Chrome's UI will take up a huge space
In addition to this, there are too many disadvantages of Safari:
The speed of switching between multiple tabs is not comparable to chrome at all,Safari will drop frames when youtube videos are played at twice the speed of 4k,Insufficient extension,I'm a senior browser enthusiast,I still chose chrome for speed,Chrome's current problem is that two-finger zoom is not sensitive