macOS 10.12 "Sierra"

Sad Professor

With Siri for Mac and other enhancements.

Public beta next month, followed by release in September.

http://www.apple.com/macos/sierra-preview/

System requirements:
MacBook, iMac: Late 2009 or newer
MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, Mac Pro: 2010 or newer

Cabaal

Not seeing anything really ground breaking I must say, voice commands can be just annoying

Sad Professor

Siri has improved a lot recently and it seems there's more upgrades on the way. We're also finally getting an Irish localisation which should make it a lot more useful over here.

However, the biggest Mac news wasn't even mentioned in the keynote: a new filesystem for 2017 to replace the antiquated HFS filesystem.

http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/13/apple-file-system-apfs/

Doodah7

Sad Professor wrote: »

Siri has improved a lot recently and it seems there's more upgrades on the way. We're also finally getting an Irish localisation which should make it a lot more useful over here.

However, the biggest Mac news wasn't even mentioned in the keynote: a new filesystem for 2017 to replace the antiquated HFS filesystem.

http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/13/apple-file-system-apfs/

This new file system is the clearest sign yet that Apple will go with all machines using a SSD by the time APFS is released. That would would mean the base model iMac and the cMBP being upgraded/deleted respectively.

Zcott

Siri and auto-unlock for me are enough to make me upgrade in a heartbeat. The unified clipboard and universal desktop and documents folder are also great upgrades.

Sad Professor

Has anyone installed the public beta? If so how you are getting along with it? What's stability like?

IamMetaldave

Sad Professor wrote: »

Has anyone installed the public beta? If so how you are getting along with it? What's stability like?

I'm downloading it now. I'm looking for info around the net for anyone who has installed it on a Mid 2013 Macbook Air before I commit to is

Update
Seems to be a mixed bag of experiences here. I think I'll hold off..

fjon

Sad Professor wrote: »

Has anyone installed the public beta? If so how you are getting along with it? What's stability like?

I've been playing around with it over the last few days. As usual there are quite a few things that don't work with it, but it's no worse than any previous beta.

I don't think I've used any of the new features on it.

Albert_Camus

I've installed it on 2016 MacBook. No problems with my uses so far. Tabbed finder is about all I use from new features.

Zcott

Albert_Camus wrote: »

I've installed it on 2016 MacBook. No problems with my uses so far. Tabbed finder is about all I use from new features.

Wasn't tabbed finder in El Cap too?

Boskowski

Sad Professor wrote: »

Siri has improved a lot recently and it seems there's more upgrades on the way. We're also finally getting an Irish localisation which should make it a lot more useful over here.

However, the biggest Mac news wasn't even mentioned in the keynote: a new filesystem for 2017 to replace the antiquated HFS filesystem.

http://9to5mac.com/2016/06/13/apple-file-system-apfs/

Me: Hey Siri.

Siri: Well boy...


New FS is great news btw.

Albert_Camus

Zcott wrote: »

Wasn't tabbed finder in El Cap too?

Maybe. I wasn't aware one of the features of Sierra is adding tabs to nearly all apple apps. So I tried it out in finder, but I guess finder may have had it all along.

shanec1928

Zcott wrote: »

Wasn't tabbed finder in El Cap too?

it was

Albert_Camus

shanec1928 wrote: »

it was

ha, well guess I'm back to using none of the Sierra features

ZENER

Zcott wrote: »

Wasn't tabbed finder in El Cap too?

It's also in Yosemite, very useful !

Ken

Sad Professor

Finder tabs are useless to me without a single window mode that forces new windows to always open as a tab. 99 percent of time when I open a new Finder window I'm doing it from an app (Reveal in Finder, etc), so I still end up with a million Finder windows open. I can merge them, but there's no default keyboard shortcut for this and while I added one I can never remember it and just end up hitting cmd-alt-W and starting over.

If anyone wants to tell me this has been fixed in Sierra it would be music to my ears.

faceman

Sad Professor wrote: »

Finder tabs are useless to me without a single window mode that forces new windows to always open as a tab. 99 percent of time when I open a new Finder window I'm doing it from an app (Reveal in Finder, etc), so I still end up with a million Finder windows open. I can merge them, but there's no default keyboard shortcut for this and while I added one I can never remember it and just end up hitting cmd-alt-W and starting over.

If anyone wants to tell me this has fixed in Sierra it would be music to my ears.

Yes to this!

The Black Oil

Have read event thread in the Apple Devices forum, but not caught up on any OS news.

Is there much to expect here?

FourFourRED

The Black Oil wrote: »

Have read event thread in the Apple Devices forum, but not caught up on any OS news.

Is there much to expect here?

Mac OS wasn't really mentioned today. However we do have a release date which is earlier than usual. 20th September. GM is out now for developers.

Sad Professor

This is out on the 20th. But the GM is available now to public beta users if anyone wants to update early.

IamMetaldave

Siri's Irish accent is awful! Anyway to change it to the ameerican one without changing locations?g

Albert_Camus

IamMetaldave wrote: »

Siri's Irish accent is awful! Anyway to change it to the ameerican one without changing locations?g

i just changed it in System Preferences -> Siri

IamMetaldave

Albert_Camus wrote: »

IamMetaldave wrote: »

Siri's Irish accent is awful! Anyway to change it to the ameerican one without changing locations?g

i just changed it in System Preferences -> Siri

Uuuggghhhh How did I miss it there? cHEERS!

IamMetaldave

Lads, Sierra seems to be blowing the fans on my Macbook Air constantly! With no apps open or anything. Nothing strange in system monitor - no high cpu/ram usage). Just big noisy fans!!

Albert_Camus

IamMetaldave wrote: »

Lads, Sierra seems to be blowing the fans on my Macbook Air constantly! With no apps open or anything. Nothing strange in system monitor - no high cpu/ram usage). Just big noisy fans!!

Time to dump the fans and get a MacBook?

IamMetaldave

Albert_Camus wrote: »

IamMetaldave wrote: »

Lads, Sierra seems to be blowing the fans on my Macbook Air constantly! With no apps open or anything. Nothing strange in system monitor - no high cpu/ram usage). Just big noisy fans!!

Time to dump the fans and get a MacBook?

It's 3 spots down on my list of Apple priorities at the moment Unless it drives me utterly around the bend!

Sad Professor

IamMetaldave wrote: »

Lads, Sierra seems to be blowing the fans on my Macbook Air constantly! With no apps open or anything. Nothing strange in system monitor - no high cpu/ram usage). Just big noisy fans!!

Did you just install? It's probably indexing and scanning photos, which can take a few hours.

IamMetaldave

Sad Professor wrote: »

IamMetaldave wrote: »

Lads, Sierra seems to be blowing the fans on my Macbook Air constantly! With no apps open or anything. Nothing strange in system monitor - no high cpu/ram usage). Just big noisy fans!!

Did you just install? It's probably indexing and scanning photos, which can take a few hours.

Installed on Monday, it's been on since. I also moved photos and docs to iCloud.

Doodah7

Out officially now.

Narcissus

On the MAS now, had to search for it though.

Doodah7

Done but took an hour and a half to download and install, even with an SSD. Seems much the same. Siri works fine.