Apple opening its OS X Yosemite Beta Program to consumers on July 24


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Apple opening its OS X Yosemite Beta Program to consumers on July 24

 

Apple confirmed it is opening up its OS X Beta Program to the public starting tomorrow -- Thursday, July, 23. Mac owners can sign up for the beta program on Apple's website using their Apple ID and will receive a Mac App Store promo code to download a beta version of OS X. Consumers must be have Mac running OS X Mavericks to be eligible for the program.

 

Apple announced OS X 10.10 Yosemite at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, held in June of this year. The new version of OS X includes notable upgrades to Safari, Mail, Messages, Notification Center and the addition of iCloud Drive. Other features like Continuity and Handoff link OS X more closely to iOS 8 and are not fully supported in the beta program.

 

If you haven't already registered, you better do so fast as the beta program is only available to the first five million consumers who sign up.

 

Source: TUAW

Link: OS X Beta Program

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Do we know if it's properly stable yet? Was thinking of risking it BADLY and installing on my main machine...

 

Since its releasing to the public assume its stable enough for normal people or the interested to use. I wouldn't use it on my main system (althou I personally have been since DP1 and I use my system for work and I'm a sys admin basically)

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I'm just going to wait until the full release comes out. No point into rushing into things. lol. 

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Do we know if it's properly stable yet? Was thinking of risking it BADLY and installing on my main machine...

I dual-boot DP4 and Windows 8.1 on my daily beater today; it's certainly capable AND stable enough for all except the most critical tasks today.

 

Except for specific hardware issues (where one OS supports hardware better than the other), there's no real TASK-related issues between the two OSes - I can run productivity software and game on either OS (the current Simcity, in fact, is actually the BEST example of this - I can start a city on one OS and shift to the other and - literally - pick up where I left off; going from Windows to Yosemite DP4 makes zero difference at all.)

 

It will not be the same build as DP4.

At worst, it will probably be DP3, which you can update to DP4 via Software Update.

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The only real problem I ran into with Yosemite was enabling trim on my non Apple SSD's, it is possible to enable trim but is far too much work for me but i haven't tried Yosemite since DP2 so things might be easier today.

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I dual-boot DP4 and Windows 8.1 on my daily beater today; it's certainly capable AND stable enough for all except the most critical tasks today.

 

Except for specific hardware issues (where one OS supports hardware better than the other), there's no real TASK-related issues between the two OSes - I can run productivity software and game on either OS (the current Simcity, in fact, is actually the BEST example of this - I can start a city on one OS and shift to the other and - literally - pick up where I left off; going from Windows to Yosemite DP4 makes zero difference at all.)

 

At worst, it will probably be DP3, which you can update to DP4 via Software Update.

It's not DP3. It's allegedly a very slight deviation from DP4, whether older or newer is hard to say. And it will be using a different bug tracking program from Radar, as well.

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