I went on my MacBook last night and saw I had updates available on the App Store. I figured this was one of those Twitter updates that seem to happen every time you blink. Much to my surprise it was a new version of OS X. You can tell how little of an Apple fanboy I am. I didn’t even know this was due, let alone here already. 🙂
I figured, what the heck and let it start. About 20 minutes later it was done and now I have Yosemite on my MacBook Pro (mid 2009). I wasn’t really timing, so that’s a guess.
First impressions.
- It’s like OS X, but more boring to look at! Everything is flat and looks a little bland. I’m told this is the look and feel from the iPhone, but I don’t have one of those so I don’t know. I’m sure in a week I won’t remember the old look. The only reminder is the icons for all the non-Apple software I have installed, which still look like they are trying to fit in with the old look. 🙂
- I asked one of my colleagues at work and he said it is meant to be faster. I don’t see that myself, but this is a 5 year old bit of kit.
- Launchpad is straight out of GNOME3. I never use it anyway. Perhaps it always looked like this???
- Mission Control and Dashboard are also things I never use, so I can’t tell if they have changed for the better or not. 🙂
- The light colour background of the Application menu looks odd. Not bad, but different.
What’s broken? So far nothing. I can run VirtualBox, iTerm, Chrome and PowerPoint, so that is pretty much all I do with the laptop.
So in conclusion, Yosemite has completely changed my whole world and Apple are a bunch of geniuses right? Well, actually it’s a pretty mundane change as far as my usage is concerned. I’m sure it’s all terribly cloudy and someone will throw a “rewritten from the ground up” in there somewhere, kinda like Microsoft do when they release the same stuff year after year with a different skin…
By the way, it didn’t cost me anything to upgrade from pretty to bland!
Cheers
Tim…