What, no Yosemite release thread?

Yosemite released today, woohoo!

- Flatter design
- Translucency
- 2D dock
- Dark mode
- Apple ID can be used as Mac login
- Snappier (tm)

I'm still adjusting to it. I only have it on my old Air currently, and for that it's running fine. The new translucency effects can be a little odd, your wallpaper can now subtly (or not so subtly) affect the colors of your apps. I haven't had a chance to throw it on a Retina Mac yet, eager to see how the new style translates at that DPI. The folder icons look .. not so good, and the trash can is way too white.

One fun quirk - If you happen to have the $20 OS X Server on Mavericks, and you try to upgrade that to Yosemite, it will let you. However, Server will promptly stop working. The upgrade, since it is a full point release (4.0) is.. another $20. Take this into consideration. There is a cutoff on the purchase time of Server tho, if you got it in the last month or so they will do a free upgrade.

 

meh .......

Borks a number of Photoshop and FCP-X plugins. plus a number of video and photography related applications.
Video drivers for new Mac Pro seem a lot more unstable. Update: ok screw that they are horrid, 17 KP's from video kexts in 5 hours.
Network issues with ADS and some Drobo NAS units ( both really drive me nuts )
Pile of beachballs O doom. I will do a full wipe and clean load as I did the upgrade on two units.

I agree it looks nice, but some of the heavy functionality really does need work in my opinion.

 

Having twice been bitten with various issues after installing new OS X revisions upon their release, I'm going to wait until at least 10.10.1 or 10.10.2 before even considering an update. The only two features of Yosemite that interest me are the Apple ID as login and improved OpenGL drivers. The latter supposedly boosts performance big time in games that were released on Mavericks, such as Hitman: Absolution. That game plays decently enough on Windows but is basically unusable in OS X. Such compatibility is not high on my priority list, especially since Mavericks is running perfectly fine on my machine right now.

I'm also hesitant to install it because I've read multiple reports that Yosemite doesn't look so good on non-Retina displays. Considering how the MacBook Air is one of, if not the, most popular computer Apple sells, this is a bit troubling. Unless, of course, the long-rumored MacBook Air with Retina Display ultimately comes to fruition.

 

Most new features center around stuff that complement or enhance features from iOS. If you don't have an iPhone, there'll be a lot less nifty features in it for you.

The menus look decent on my Air and if you like the look of the typeface in iOS, you'll probably also like this.

The problem is that the typography is harder to read than Lucida Grande and the ubiquitous transparency that picks up faint colors from the background certainly doesn't help much. There are plenty things I like about Yosemite and a few things that I don't (like the ugly cyan folders), but so far I haven't seen anything that would cause me to advice against upgrading a non-work machine (my work machine won't see the upgrade before Adobe gives it the all clear and it has seen a point release or two).

 

Those nifty features are irrelevant for me, not because I don't have an iPhone, but my Mac is too old support them. You need at least a mid-2012 model to get handoff and such.

 

You're right. Not having Handoff, AirDrop and Instant Hotspot is annoying. Phone calling and SMS should still work though (come iOS 8.1).

 

You can upgrade the wifi/bt card and modify the corresponding kexts on the 2011s to enable Handoff and AirDrop. I'm planning on doing that as soon I'm comfortable with the stability of Yosemite.

 

Not worth the return on investment of my time and money as this is not a feature I would use very often, if at all.

 

The Continuity stuff is starting to spoil me. I like that I can leave my iPhone on the charger in the office and take my [any other Apple device] to the living room, and if I get a call I can just take it on whatever I have.

 

Running it on my '14 rMBP and it's perfectly fine. I don't really see anything that different from Mavericks, a few small things that aren't all that WOW worthy. mostly visual upgrade from mavericks i would say and a couple applications to help integrate with ios better.

 

If someone don't use any other Apple stuff, only iMac/MacBook I don't see any practical upgrade outside graphics.

 

that depends too, for alot of my graphics work my Macs are not the prime option either.

 

There are already apps like iWorks and Omnigraffle where the latest version *requires* Yosemite.

 

I'm running Yosemite on my 2012 Mac Mini and the only issue i've encountered is Safari intermittently going beach ball on me and I have to force close and restart. Besides that it's been pretty solid, it boots quicker than ML or Mavs.

I'm also a big fan of the new look.