They don’t all look or work the same, but they work together better than ever. The best features, the most important and innovative features, do affect every device you own - as long as you own Apple devices. Plus, there’s a lot more to Yosemite than the desktop. It feels outdated in places – the whole idea of the "desktop" just feels pointless, and saving and organizing files is still more complex than it should be in the age of limitless searchable cloud storage - but it’s true to what Apple believes in. This is still a PC operating system, made for devices with mice and keyboards and trackpads. Microsoft believes in a single experience for all devices Apple believes every device ought to have its own. It’s not Windows 10, with big ideas about how our devices are just different sizes of the same thing, how the interface and settings and apps should be consistent everywhere. It looks different… and yet the sameįor all the talk of convergence and of the ever-shrinking gap between PC and smartphone and tablet, Yosemite almost makes a statement in its lack of fundamental change. If you’re not forever married to another browser, Safari is very much worth a shot. I’m a habitual opener of hundreds of tabs, and I’ve never found an easier way to wade through the morass and find what I’m looking for. The list of frequently visited sites that appears every time you click on the address bar is incredibly handy, as is the visual tab switcher. Safari is so incredibly fast to load pages that I almost think it’s cheating. The biggest change was that I started using Safari again. I have a fraught relationship with the new Spotlight, by the way: it’s much more powerful, showing movie times and map results and topical Wikipedia pages, but it can’t do a simple Google search, and it would rather show me emails that reference Taylor Swift than actually help me play "Out Of The Woods." Spotlight is so close to right, but I still use Alfred every time. Spotlight doesn’t pop up in the corner of your screen, but in the center, in a gray window like Alfred. Some are small: there’s no "full-screen" button in the top right corner of the window, you just press the green button in the stoplight menu. Yosemite only changed a few things about the way I use my Mac. Yosemite is a new look - but it’s not a new idea. But there’s still a dock at the bottom of my screen, still a menu bar at the top, still the same settings and options and gestures and keyboard shortcuts. It’s a cleaner, calmer, more balanced look that I like a lot, even if I did change my background immediately. (Of course, that’s partly because a lot of apps haven’t even updated to support translucency yet. I stopped noticing it almost immediately. I’d love to say I have feelings about the translucency in the sidebars and menu bars of Apple’s apps, which shows a bit of the app behind whatever you’re looking at, but I don’t. All the fonts were suddenly a little smaller and a lot more Helvetica Neue (and also pretty pixelated unless I was on a Retina screen). After downloading and installing the update (which took about 25 minutes and a little over 5GB of disk space), I had a new wallpaper, the mountain face against pink and purple sky. It’s just that the new look feels familiar, only slightly more refined, like the finished version of what came before. That’s not to say it doesn’t look different - it does. It took about six hours for me to mostly forget that I was using Yosemite. Our original preview of Yosemite, from July.
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