Apple releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 8 and Public Beta 3


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Apple releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 8 and Public Beta 3

 

This morning, Apple has released a pair of OS X Yosemite beta updates. The first is OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 8 for registered developers. That update is available via the Mac App Store. The Cupertino-based company has also released OS X Yosemite Public Beta 3, which is the third release for end users that are part of Apple?s AppleSeed customer software seeding program. That update is, too, available on the Mac App Store for applicable users. We?ll be updating this post with new changes as they are discovered. OS X Yosemite is expected to ship in October, according to sources.

-Weather in Notification Center requests permission to use current location now, previously just displayed current city

 

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-System Preferences app navigation changed, ?Show All? button replaced with forward and backward buttons as well as a 4?3 grid button

 

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-New build is 14A361c over 14A343f from previous developer preview

 

Source: 9to5Mac

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How smooth do you think the transition from Public Beta to final release will be?  If I install the beta will I likely be able to install the full version when it is released, or do you think I will need to do a full re-installation?

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How smooth do you think the transition from Public Beta to final release will be?  If I install the beta will I likely be able to install the full version when it is released, or do you think I will need to do a full re-installation?

In the past both have happened. Sometimes beta/GM can upgrade cleanly, sometimes you can't - no way of knowing.

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So a couple of things I have noticed with the new public beta 3...

 

They now have corrected the way your mac will show your storage i.e. click apple logo on the top left > go to about this mac > then clicking storage.

Before it was showing the correct space available but it was broken up incorrectly.

 

The next thing I noticed it that while on battery my "iCloud Photos" process was causing an energy impact of 12! If you want you can go to settings > iCloud > the de-select the photos checkmark.

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I stand by my statement I made in another thread (the iOS 8 thread I think) that this company is run by total morons. I have a friend with a Macbook and he's trying to download the damn beta sincer forever, he always gets the same errors in the store, either "can't redeem code right now, try again later" or "this code was already redeemed". Either way, the download never starts, and the beta is not on the Purchased list.

So I went home and tried the same thing on my hackintosh. Guess what? Same crap. And searching the net reveals that it's a common issue, but hell if I've seen any website bashing the idiots at Apple for (still) not fixing it. If it was a Windows issue, it would've been a Jihad.

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I stand by my statement I made in another thread (the iOS 8 thread I think) that this company is run by total morons. I have a friend with a Macbook and he's trying to download the damn beta sincer forever, he always gets the same errors in the store, either "can't redeem code right now, try again later" or "this code was already redeemed". Either way, the download never starts, and the beta is not on the Purchased list.

So I went home and tried the same thing on my hackintosh. Guess what? Same crap. And searching the net reveals that it's a common issue, but hell if I've seen any website bashing the idiots at Apple for (still) not fixing it. If it was a Windows issue, it would've been a Jihad.

 

Then use a torrent for your "hackintosh" if you can't redeem through the Yosemite page. 

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Then use a torrent for your "hackintosh" if you can't redeem through the Yosemite page. 

I don't care about Yosemite, I just wanted to check if it's only an isolated case. Seems it's all over. Why release a public beta if people can't download it?!

 

Anyway, I think you should give that advice to Apple, maybe switching to torrents for their betas would work for more people.

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I don't care about Yosemite, I just wanted to check if it's only an isolated case. Seems it's all over. Why release a public beta if people can't download it?!

 

Anyway, I think you should give that advice to Apple, maybe switching to torrents for their betas would work for more people.

 

Right, because everyone uses Torrents and Apple should have us install an app like Bittorrent in which technically influences us to download other things illegally in the long run.

do the back & foward buttons annoy anyelse?

 

In that they should look like this:

backfoward.jpg

 

Rather than:

screen-shot-2014-09-15-at-1-09-09-pm.png

 

 

god, it drives me insane that they are close together but the top & bottom corners are rounded!

 

I never looked that close at a button to think about that.

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do the back & foward buttons annoy anyelse?

 

In that they should look like this:

backfoward.jpg

 

Rather than:

screen-shot-2014-09-15-at-1-09-09-pm.png

 

 

god, it drives me insane that they are close together but the top & bottom corners are rounded!

It didn't until you pointed it out. 

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Right, because everyone uses Torrents and Apple should have us install an app like Bittorrent in which technically influences us to download other things illegally in the long run.

Of course. Leave it to a Neowin user to turn a stupid bug discussion into a piracy discussion. Dude, get off your high horse, whoever says doesn't use torrents or downloads pirated stuff is full of crap. And if you noticed, I wasn't talking about MY hackintosh, I was talking about a Macbook. Should I tell this guy to go ###### himself and that he's not allowed into the beta program?

 

And yeah, I stand by what I said, if those morons can't fix a (common) bug, they should change their delivery system. Torrents, DC++, usenet, I don't care, as long as the damn file downloads.

 

P.S. Already tried with a few codes, by leaving and re-entering the beta program, it's the same. Seems there's no solution.

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do the back & foward buttons annoy anyelse?

 

In that they should look like this:

backfoward.jpg

 

Rather than:

screen-shot-2014-09-15-at-1-09-09-pm.png

 

 

god, it drives me insane that they are close together but the top & bottom corners are rounded!

There's probably a rationale behind that. Although I'd be hard pressed to tell you what it is. 

 

I would also at least consider the possibility that this is simply something to get used to, as we've been using the first variant for years.

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I would also at least consider the possibility that this is simply something to get used to, as we've been using the first variant for years.

 

Sold my macbook, mac mini & imac....

 

going back to Windows.

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It's me or the gradients in this release are a little more smoother and refined? Looks and feels oddly better without being dramatically different.

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It's me or the gradients in this release are a little more smoother and refined? Looks and feels oddly better without being dramatically different.

 

I would definitely recommend you to go through this thread for all smaller changes which users notice, they might have mentioned something about it, I follow this thread due to personal liking of OS X though I don't own Apple ecosystem product. I would recommend going from last page to backward.

 

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1740187

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I've actually now installed Yosemite onto my production machines too.

It's been on my dev machine for a while now, and it's pretty much stable now. Haven't noticed any major glitches at all.

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I ask you some .....about osx 10.10 yosemite:

 

1) there is new features also hidden in osx 10.10 than osx 10.9?

2) Osx 10.10 is faster thann osx 10.9

3) There are improvements in general in OSX 10.10 than OSX 10.9 ???

 

and other new hidden features???

 

Or OSX 10.10 is ONLY a GUI modding than OSX 10.9??

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I ask you some .....about osx 10.10 yosemite:

 

1) there is new features also hidden in osx 10.10 than osx 10.9?

2) Osx 10.10 is faster thann osx 10.9

3) There are improvements in general in OSX 10.10 than OSX 10.9 ???

 

and other new hidden features???

 

Or OSX 10.10 is ONLY a GUI modding than OSX 10.9??

 

Check out the documentation: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/navigation/

 

Lots of under the hood changes taking place - just because Apple doesn't talk much about the technicalities of OS X doesn't mean they aren't developing the guts of the operating system.

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I stand by my statement I made in another thread (the iOS 8 thread I think) that this company is run by total morons. I have a friend with a Macbook and he's trying to download the damn beta sincer forever, he always gets the same errors in the store, either "can't redeem code right now, try again later" or "this code was already redeemed". Either way, the download never starts, and the beta is not on the Purchased list.

So I went home and tried the same thing on my hackintosh. Guess what? Same crap. And searching the net reveals that it's a common issue, but hell if I've seen any website bashing the idiots at Apple for (still) not fixing it. If it was a Windows issue, it would've been a Jihad.

Amusingly, I did NOT have that issue ("Hack" based on ASUS P5G41-M LX2/GB).  If you have a previous Yosemite beta (public OR developer) you update via the MAS (specifically, the Updates section of the MAS).  Now, it can happen that a bug in a Public Beta or Developer Preview can muck up the update process (I had to install Developer Preview 6 clean for that reason - a bug in DP5) - that is one of the reasons for testing, after all.

 

Also, I updated a bricked iPad to iOS 8 over the weekend.  The de-bricking process itself was rock-solid - the issue was more the Internet connection of the computer used for the de-bricking.  I would definitely recommend a gigabit WIRED Ethernet adapter be used in the debricking computer (which can be running either Windows or OS X).

I ask you some .....about osx 10.10 yosemite:

 

1) there is new features also hidden in osx 10.10 than osx 10.9?

2) Osx 10.10 is faster thann osx 10.9

3) There are improvements in general in OSX 10.10 than OSX 10.9 ???

 

and other new hidden features???

 

Or OSX 10.10 is ONLY a GUI modding than OSX 10.9??

10.10 is flat-out faster all around compared to 10.9 - I changed no applications or games going from 10.9 to 10.10.

 

The biggest complaint about 10.10 (other than bugs) is aesthetics - the flatness is a major complaint point.  (The same applies to iOS 8; however, it also applied to iOS 7, which was itself flatter than iOS 6.)

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Amusingly, I did NOT have that issue ("Hack" based on ASUS P5G41-M LX2/GB).  If you have a previous Yosemite beta (public OR developer) you update via the MAS (specifically, the Updates section of the MAS).  Now, it can happen that a bug in a Public Beta or Developer Preview can muck up the update process (I had to install Developer Preview 6 clean for that reason - a bug in DP5) - that is one of the reasons for testing, after all.

No, the Macbook has Mavericks on it, 10.9.5. I also have the same version on my hackintosh. Since then, I have two more guys with the same issue, both of them with Apple hardware. Not that I needed confirmation, the internet is full of posts about this issue...

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No, the Macbook has Mavericks on it, 10.9.5. I also have the same version on my hackintosh. Since then, I have two more guys with the same issue, both of them with Apple hardware. Not that I needed confirmation, the internet is full of posts about this issue...

The post I made was a followup to someone trying to dismiss the issue as being "hack-related" - I was pointing out that my own "hack" did NOT have that issue, while those with genuine Apple hardware have.  The issue is, in fact, hardware-independent.

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