Lame name :(
I liked it better when they named the releases after big cats!
Apple has posted the annual full overhaul of the Mac operating system, this time focusing on a redesign of the look and feel of the interface. The 10.14 incarnation of macOS, known as Mojave, has been released into general availability. It includes new features, interface updates, and security patches – though at least one …
I had the exact same problem;
I used to do tech for a legal firm where all the computers were named after cats (Lion, Jaguar, etc.) It was fine when they were in a single office, but by the time I left, there were in three buildings, and putting a new system on the network normally involved a frantic trawl through Wikipedia (Caracal, Toyger...) or IMDB (TopCat, SnagglePuss...).
That was before going to the user, and making sure the name didn't upset them (The new HR Hire was *Not* happy getting Bigglesworth...)
IIRC Bluetooth was broken in Lion and the fix was only available in Mountain Lion. That fixed the problems I had with Lion but I've never found Bluetooth on MacOS to be particularly reliable. For example, music playback will stop unexpectedly after a couple of hours. Basically, Apple expects you only to use it for its keyboard and mouse and to buy expensive "Air" branded accessories for anything else.
It was an ad ploy that was actually Vista, and all those who tried it "liked" it.
Explanation link here.
Of course, at least they are doing releases that actually work, something the boys in Redmond have difficulties at times.
As with most operating system updates it's never advisable to install them until at least the first set of fixes is available and MacOS is no exception. Invariably something is broken and "security" has changed.
Mojave looks singularly uninspiring, which is why the "dark theme" gets so much attention. Wonder if it's heralding some MacBooks with OLED screens? Not that the annual updates should be featured packed: slow and steady is fine with me.
I installed it on my laptop for shits and giggles. Hard pressed to find anything new apart from dark mode, ported iOS apps, and my spinning rust drive changed to the new file system.
Dark mode and the desert background looks decidedly Ubuntu... perhaps Apple can make brown the colour of success?
Already we have fools, sorry, delightful colleagues, moaning about their "need" to upgrade to the latest point-zero new and shiny (and probably slippery), despite the fact that, every year, we tell them that probably a fair chunk of their actually necessary programs that they use to do their actual work will probably feature "interesting" compatibility bugs and will break in unexpected ways until the program developers get around to releasing updates, and, furthermore, that if they go ahead, and break it, we reserve the right to say "told you so" and shrug from a safe distance.
(Apparently the future of scientific research clearly depends on having this latest point-zero new and shiny right here and right now. Gives you faith in their research outcomes, doesn't it?)
I presume it means something along the lines of:
Someone emails you a spreadsheet. You can make some changes to it directly from your email program without saving the attachment, opening up a spreadsheet program, saving the file, and attaching it to another email.
I don't know if you can do this, but an idea of what "working on a file without opening it" might look like.
You can make some changes to it directly from your email program without saving the attachment
Taligent and the much underused "Services" menu rebadged as QuickLook. Apple have definitely put a lot of work into QuickLook over the last few years. Of course, if you can work with the builtin tools then there's even less reason for you to access the file system and, say, put files where you want them. This is still fine on MacOS, but a mate of mine with an I-Phone and an I-Pad is preparing to go Android.
You can do simple things with files in Quick Look and the Finder pane (e.g. rotate, crop, shrink, generate PDF).
Sure. But my point was that you can't modify a file (*) without opening it, even if that opening is behind the scenes rather than firing up the usual app. The claim you can is yet more dumbing down for morons "creatives".
(*) Except for totally deleting it.
But my point was that you can't modify a file (*) without opening it
Of course, you're completely right and it's poorly worded. It should say something like change something in a DOCX file directly in Finder or an e-mail* without have to start Word.
* Not sure about the practicability of this, to be honest. Perhaps when you forward something and want to remove pages… Just being able to print files would be nice: I note that I can "share" my log files but have to choose an app to open them in order to be able to print them.
I don't know how to vote on your post…
I do like dark modes in OSes and programs (he says, writing from a Linux desktop with rather too many grey on black terminals open (and even more browser windows with many annoyingly so-retro searing paper-white pages open))…
…but at the same time, it really does frustrate me that MacOS is so very minimally uncustomisable (it's supposed to be for creative people after all, isn't it?).
At the very least, Apple, please let me pick more interesting System/Menu, Finder, and program interface fonts (or even Chicago/Charcoal, for some retro amusement)!
I have a mid 2010 27" iMac.
Intel Core i7 2.93 GHz
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR 3 RAM
ATI Radeon 5750 Graphics card with 1024 MB RAM
512GB SSD + 1TB HDD
This specification isn't enough to allow Mojave to be installed.
Not sure what the bottleneck is that prevents Mojave working satisfactorily. I'll stick with High Sierra until this machine bites the dust*
*That could be a long time, my 2006 iMac that I sold to a friend is still chugging along happily
"Not sure what the bottleneck is that prevents Mojave working satisfactorily."
It's unlikely to be a bottleneck, and very likely to be an artifical line in the sand drawn by Apple. They'll have deemed that an 8-year-old machine is now vintage and so won't be supported in future OS upgrades. They want you to buy a new-shiny, with the implied threat of being pwned if you don't keep up-to-date with their relentless and tedious os updates.
Proof of the artificialness of the os-support cutoff? The last generation of 'proper' Mac Pros - you know, the ones in a proper case that could be upgraded and expanded... I.E. the ones that were a "pro" computer rather than a glorified dustbin - was the 5,1. It was still supported in 10.13 (not sure about this latest 10.14 - haven't tried). However the 5,1's predecessor, the 4,1, wasn't supported beyond 10.9 (or perhpas 10.10 - again, I haven't tried). But here's the rub: there was no difference betweent the 4,1 and the 5,1 beyond a firmware upgrade that changed the reported model number and enabled 6-core CPU support - this was demonstrated when that firmware upgrade escaped into the wild, and people patched their older 4,1s with it, thereby giving their mac pros (so far) an extra 4-5 years of supported life.
So, even if there exists a genuine reason why Mojave won't run on your 2010 iMac, it's unlikely to be anything that couldn't be addressed with a firmware patch. Not that Apple will release such a patch, of course - your new Mac awaits (not that they're got anything worth buying at the moment, IMO).
I wouldn't bother. With the removal of subpixel antialiasing, on any device without a retina display text rendering will look awful. I installed Mojave this morning onto a supported MacBook Air (like the ones their still selling) and text looks blurry and difficult to read. Various fixes have been posted but these only change the display font smoothing settings and don't produce any meaningful results. Another case of Apples policy of enforced planed obsolescence. We've made your perfectly adequate device display s**t so you'll need to buy a new one!
I think it's more like subpixel antialiasing being a special case when compositing — i.e. it needs to be disregarded if any sort of transform is applied, or I guess you could give up on GPU composition and re-render the whole thing but that sounds unlikely — and Apple no longer being willing to expend the effort. iOS has never had subpixel rendering.
Excuses being made, those of us that long ago used OS X on a non-LCD screen, also with no subpixel antialiasing, will probably feel nostalgic if presented with a non-retina LCD for the vague sense that somebody has snuck in and applied Vaseline to the screen.
I'm torn!
I want the shiny new (because feedback from beta testers pointer to perf improvements on the Air, and anything that stops the fan sounding like a demented F-15 these days will be welcome), but the sub-pixel rendering changes will be annoying if they make the screen any less usable.
Sure, Apple think I should upgrade my out-dated mid-2012 Air for something new and shiny, but the Macbook Pro that I'd like (because of the jump in specs) is still an unknown when it comes to the keyboard and other reliability and, compared to a lot of the Windows machines on offer, horribly over-priced. But I hate the idea of going back to Windows.