Apple has launched an upgrade for macOS Sierra, which features several improvements to the underlying technology of the desktop operating system.<\/p>\n
It will also come with a new version of Safari and updates to its Photos app.<\/p>\n
Dubbed macOS High Sierra, Apple\u2019s updated desktop OS\u00a0will use a new file system called the Apple File System (APFS).<\/p>\n
APFS is a \u201cthoroughly modern file system,\u201d said Apple\u2019s senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi.<\/p>\n
It is completely 64-bit, has native encryption, crash protection, instant file and directory cloning, fast directory sizing, and parallelised metadata operations.<\/p>\n
macOS High Sierra will also support hardware acceleration for HEVC, and feature the next version of Apple\u2019s API to access graphics processors – Metal 2.<\/p>\n
Using Metal 2 and a Thunderbolt 3 interface, Federighi said users will\u00a0be able to access an external graphics processing unit.<\/p>\n
Apple said it will make a developer kit for “external graphics” available that includes a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure and an AMD RX 580 GPU.<\/p>\n
Developers have access to a beta of macOS High Sierra from today, with a public beta set to launch later this month.<\/p>\n
macOS High Sierra will be available as a free upgrade to all Mac owners on systems which\u00a0support macOS Sierra in Q3 2017.<\/p>\n
Apple has launched an upgrade for macOS Sierra, which features several improvements to its underlying technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":214100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,36626,43686],"class_list":["post-214090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-macos","tag-macos-high-sierra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214102,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214090\/revisions\/214102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}