Here’s what you need to know about Apple’s new desktop OS, available today as a public beta.
Every year, Apple introduces a new version of OS X, but this year the new version got a new name. If you upgrade OS X 10.11 El Capitan to version 10.12 when it arrives this autumn, you’ll be upgrading to macOS Sierra, not OS X. The underlying architecture and overall experience remains basically the same, but the name is now consistent with Apple’s iOS and watchOS. But this latest version is about a lot more than just the name. You can try an early version of the OS today, July 7 (see below), and here’s what you need to know.
1. Apple is releasing a public beta of macOS Sierra today at beta.apple.com. Registered developers had access to a very early beta version, and that version is what I used in preliminary tests. I liked what I saw, and I like the features that aren’t ready yet but will be ready by the time the OS ships. The following are some highlights of the version I tested.
2. MacOS Sierra will be a free upgrade and works on any Mac dating back to 2010 and MacBooks and iMacs from 2009. Older hardware will still work with OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which you’re probably using now.
3. Siri finally comes to the Mac. Just as Microsoft built its speech-driven assistant Cortana into Windows 10, so Apple built iOS’s Siri into macOS. Sierra’s Siri won’t respond to “Hey, Siri” because your Mac doesn’t listen to you all the time, but she pops up with a keystroke (the default is Fn-space) or a mouse click and finds local restaurants or pictures you took last week or tells you weather, sports scores, and much more. You can drag Siri’s answers from a pop-up window to the notification pane or drag images into documents. A new preference pane lets you decide whether Siri will talk back to you or simply type out her answers on screen. You can also choose her gender and nationality.
4. Sierra, in combination with the forthcoming iOS 10, introduces a universal clipboard that lets you save text on a Mac and paste it into your iPad or phone, or the reverse. Other ways the Apple ecosystem gets more tightly integrated include automatic unlocking of a Mac when an unlocked Apple Watch is close by (and on your wrist). In the public beta, this will only work if you’re a registered Apple developer using the beta version of watchOS 3
5. Picture in Picture comes to the Mac, too. As on the iPad, you can extract a video from a Web page and have it play on your macOS desktop without the surrounding Web page. The video stays playing, in the same position, even when you switch among multiple desktops.
6. The Finder gets some welcome additions—an option that automatically empties items from the trash after 30 days, and an option to put folders first when the Finder lists files and folders by name. Windows has had similar features for years, and they’re overdue on the Mac.
7. Automatic uploading to iCloud from your Desktop and Documents folders. Unless you turn this feature off, every file and subfolder in your Desktop and Documents folder automatically gets uploaded to your iCloud drive—a feature that may prompt you to buy more storage than the 5GB you get free. The point of this is that all the files you use most often will be instantly available on any Apple device or Windows machine with iCloud installed. Sierra will also advise you on which files you might want to remove from your Mac and store entirely in cloud, downloading them when needed.
8. The Memories feature in Photos uses facial recognition and other smarts to combine related photos into movies that pan in and out of your pictures and add a soundtrack. I have mixed feelings about this feature; the gee-whiz quality may not have much staying power, but maybe you’ll like having your software do your photo curating for you.
9. Tabs are everywhere. Maps, Mail, and any other app—whether or not Apple wrote it—that normally opens multiple windows can now use separate tabs instead. I tried this feature in Mail, where I typically have three or four message windows open, and was instantly glad to have the reduced clutter and easier navigation that this feature offers.
10.You may have heard about Apple’s new Apple File System (APFS) that brings new security, speed, and reliability features to macOS. This is available to developers now, but won’t ship to consumers until 2017, which means you won’t see it on your Mac until the version of macOS that comes after Sierra. Apple plans to take its time testing APFS, the biggest change in its file system in 30 years.
Source:http://www.pcmag.com/article/345500/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-macos-sierra
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Aug 11, 2016 01:18 pm / Posted by Jane Vivian | Categories: Apple