Apple OS X Yosemite Beta?

prowla

Well, I installed it into a VM, and it's a bit bland and flat.
In my VM, the dock has no transparency and the menu bar is black on white with no texture.
It's not quite as bad as Windows 8, but I'm hoping they'll perk it up a bit before the full release.

DevCoder

Which Developer Preview version are you using?

I kind like the "dark mode" as opposed to normal mode, but wish they would extend it to the rest of the UI as opposed to just menu and dock.

The overall "flatness" is meant to be creating a synergy with iOS, Continuity/Handoff is a great feature, quite impressed with it.

Its certainly evolved a lot during DP1->DP3 and DP4 is a ton more stable for me.

There are some tricks to getting it to appear more "fancier" if you like the older style mavericks, theres a thread on the developer forums with some plist etc changes.

prowla

I just downloaded it today and installed it in a VM on my Mac mini.

I don't mind not having the glass shelf dock, but a flat single colour one is a bit jarring.

Likewise the monochrome menu bar is reminiscent of the Mac SE/30 I used in the 80s.

My first impression of the current flat IOS was that it looked fresher, whereas the OS X one just seems retrograde.

I think Apple can do better than this.

1uk3y

I also have Yosemite Beta on my MacBook Air. First impressions are generally good bar a few annoying little issues which I'm sure they will fix. I also feel Safari in Yosemite is very buggy. I don't know whether anyone else is getting this issue but sometimes by tabs disappear and the 'add tab +' button disappears.
Another thing i think they could improve is the GUI of windows in the background. They look a little flat and I don't think they are glassy enough.

I do like spotlight, I like the notification centre too. Yosemite has also cut about 2 seconds off my 11 second boot up speed on my Macbook Air too!!

DevCoder

Hmm Developer Preview 5 introduces really annoying issues with keyboard/mouse not responding on wake from sleep on Air and Pro...

prowla

1uk3y wrote: »

I also have Yosemite Beta on my MacBook Air. First impressions are generally good bar a few annoying little issues which I'm sure they will fix. I also feel Safari in Yosemite is very buggy. I don't know whether anyone else is getting this issue but sometimes by tabs disappear and the 'add tab +' button disappears.
Another thing i think they could improve is the GUI of windows in the background. They look a little flat and I don't think they are glassy enough.

I do like spotlight, I like the notification centre too. Yosemite has also cut about 2 seconds off my 11 second boot up speed on my Macbook Air too!!

I think in IOS the flat feel works rather well, giving a feeling of depth; I'm just not getting that feeling in OS X.