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SauRoNZA

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Has just popped up on my machine, so my bets are it will go live in less than two weeks time for those who are interested.
 
I installed it over the weekend with no issues so far. Previously I had issues with Lion and Mountain Lion when it refused to connect to wifi after waking from sleep. That got fixed eventually after a couple of updates. Mavericks seems fine from the get go.
 
I am gonna install mavericks after my dissertation is done.From your experience how is mavericks is it quicker than mountain lion
 
For me, it runs exactly the same. No noticeable difference in speed, either faster or slower.
 
Yeah I wouldn't say it's any better or worse speed wise.

But then it does a bit more in other ways like saving battery with the power monitoring tools and the very irritating blocking of flash if you use Safari.

Finally having the Dock on both screens is awesome though.
 
iBooks is quite buggy: if I open a book, it opens it in the background with the iBooks bookshelf in front. If I try to minimise the bookshelf to try and read the book, it just maximises itself again. Or, i'm being a chop and doing something stupid.
 
On the surface it's all much the same, except for some improvements with things like security, multi display, mission control, ...

The good stuff as with iOS7 IMO lies below the subtle skinning: For example: Spritekit, Mapkit, Safari push notifications, AV Kit, and for me the best is possibly the Xcode server features.
 
[)roi(];11319521 said:
On the surface it's all much the same, except for some improvements with things like security, multi display, mission control, ...

The good stuff as with iOS7 IMO lies below the subtle skinning: For example: Spritekit, Mapkit, Safari push notifications, AV Kit, and for me the best is possibly the Xcode server features.
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Cannot wait for the multi display and finder improvements. Both are pretty kuk right now.
 
[)roi(];11319521 said:
On the surface it's all much the same, except for some improvements with things like security, multi display, mission control, ...

The good stuff as with iOS7 IMO lies below the subtle skinning: For example: Spritekit, Mapkit, Safari push notifications, AV Kit, and for me the best is possibly the Xcode server features.
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Notification sync has changed my life after Mavericks and IOS 7.

iCloud Keychain was awesome until they suddenly removed it for both Mavericks and iOS 7.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Cannot wait for the multi display and finder improvements. Both are pretty kuk right now.
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Multi display support whilst improved, still has some funny quirks;

for example: Moving photoshop to my Cintiq screen works as one would expect (nice), yet every dialog that photoshop pops up still appears on the main screen, which as you can appreciate is quite a bit frustrating re when I'm drawing on the Cintiq I'm not in front of MBP to respond to the dialogs.

Finder in GM release is still quite a bit buggy IMO and i still prefer the overall functionality of XtraFinder; fortunately you can still choose either.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Notification sync has changed my life after Mavericks and IOS 7.

iCloud Keychain was awesome until they suddenly removed it for both Mavericks and iOS 7.
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Didn't know it had been dropped? :(

Was holding off purchasing 1Password4, since I wanted to check out the Keychain first?
 
I haven't tried any of the Betas of Mavericks - nor the GM. Hoping the release is early next week though. :D
 
I smell a hackintosh coming my way.........I used mountain lion for about 2 months and really enjoyed the whole apple products integration.
 
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