Yosemite - thoughts?

prowla

I've installed Yosemite on my Mac today.

The upgrade ran without a hitch.

My first impressions are that the new flat dock looks a bit out of place, but they have stepped away from the glass shelf which bore a remarkable similarity to the Looking Glass project. They have (just as with IOS) done a decent job of perspective, using subtle shadow effects to make flat things appear to float in front of the things behind them.

The general flat styling is OK, but window title bars are now just a bit bland and boring. The artwork of the small minimise/close/maximise buttons at their top left looks a bit unfinished and raggedy; they're certainly not as clean as the ones in Ubuntu Linux, and that should be something quite basic to have picked up.

I'm trying out the dark menu bar and dock, but it would be good if you could adjust their colour and transparency independently, maybe a slider for each. In fact it would be good to have more control over transparency in general, as the blur effect is a bit too much of a broad brush for me.

I have to say its not bad, but I was expecting things to be perhaps a bit better.

So the revised user interface gets polite clapping rather than rapturous applause from me.

isotonic_uk

what spec mac you running it on?

B_G_B

prowla wrote: »

So the revised user interface gets polite clapping rather than rapturous applause from me.

I agree........

As someone who is not over tekkie when it comes to computers, although generally able to poke and prod my way through most problems, I was pleasantly surprised and impressed with the ease of the upgrade itself. Especially when all personal settings etc were unchanged. Even the few folders on the desktop were scattered around exactly where I had left them before upgrade, instead of being re-arranged neatly in one corner.

I did have a problem though with Time Machine afterwards, and ended up reformatting disk and starting Time Machine from scratch. Seems ok now. (I use a mini drive in the SD slot)

Minor dislikes…

Favicons missing from bookmarks bar on safari and haven’t been able to get them back, although I’m getting used to that, and in some ways seems to fit with the general clean, uncluttered look of things.

I liked the old time machine. (flying through space background) because I’m a big kid at heart. The new background is (nearly) plain blue. Again, this though fits with the overall uncluttered sharper look.

Everything else seems to work exactly as before, although as I say, I’m no expert on the inner workings.

I reckon that in a couple of days time, I won’t even remember how things used to look.

Late 2013 13" Macbook pro.

prowla

isotonic_uk wrote: »

what spec mac you running it on?

Mine is a Mac mini mid-2011, 2.5 GHz Core i5, 16 GB, SSD, Radeon 6630M graphics.

prowla

B_G_B wrote: »

I reckon that in a couple of days time, I won’t even remember how things used to look.

Yep - I'm with you there.

System

Hi

I installed Yosemite, but kept Mavericks as well. I prefer to login to Mavericks.

Yosemite is not at all inspiring or revolutionary and rarely gets tried out.

Dis-appointed with having to login with AppleID rather than my own password structure, so if AppleID is ever compromised then the machines of many will be open to all and sundry.

Handsome90

I've been using it for several weeks as I was using the public beta. In general I like the changes and how everything is suppose to work together (referring to continuity). However, for some weird reason after I updated to Yosemite, I can't get MS word to work.

prowla

johndough wrote: »

Hi

I installed Yosemite, but kept Mavericks as well. I prefer to login to Mavericks.

Yosemite is not at all inspiring or revolutionary and rarely gets tried out.

Dis-appointed with having to login with AppleID rather than my own password structure, so if AppleID is ever compromised then the machines of many will be open to all and sundry.

You don't have to login with your Apple ID - I have my local account on my mac.

prowla

Handsome90 wrote: »

I've been using it for several weeks as I was using the public beta. In general I like the changes and how everything is suppose to work together (referring to continuity). However, for some weird reason after I updated to Yosemite, I can't get MS word to work.

I just ran Word 2011 on mine and it starts fine.

securityguy

I wasn't surprised that it went onto an almost new Mini without any intervention.

I was very surprised that it went onto a massively hacked around 2007 iMac with a home-brew Fusion (laptop HDD on a PATA-SATA adapter in the PATA DVD bay, SSD in the SATA HDD bay) without any intervention.

Big_Graeme

Its had a tart up but that is about all I can find different, what are the whizz bang features that will make me want to upgrade a whole lab of iMacs?