Very Berry Sunday
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What are good Safari extensions? Are there extensions that speeds up video playback?
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OSX High Sierra is now available via the Mac App Store as a free upgrade
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What are good Safari extensions? Are there extensions that speeds up video playback?
It's particularly notable on the 2016 and 2017 15" Pros because the integrated GPUs in those (the Intel HD 530/630) are quite a bit weaker than the Iris GPUs in the 13". Probably helps the 12" MacBook quite a bit too.
I use Parallels a lot to run Windows 10 on my mid-2015 MBP. The Boot Camp stuff in this review is worrying. Will I not be able to run Windows on Parallels anymore, or does this ONLY impact Boot Camp?
Apart from that, this seems like a pretty 'meh' update to me. I like macOS a lot, but I hate all of Apple's first-party applications and never use them, so I don't see too much to get excited about here.
Super annoying yes, but it's supported like with Sierra (not officially of course, but there are no known issues in most 2009 models).
Here are some instructions on how to do it.
I'm tempted due to APFS, but El Capitan has been super stable for me so I might wait until we get to a .1 or .2 release.
eyeball_kid
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Ghostery for ad blocking and privacy protection. Really the only extension I use. By speeding up video, do you mean like playing at 1.5x speed?
killertofu
Member
Does HEVC mean Quicktime can play h265 now?
The Mac (not sure of the model, says it's 2.7ghz Intel Core i5 and has 8GB RAM ) I use at work has OSX 10.8.2. and asked the IT guy if there was a chance to upgrade it, just for the hell of it.
He said it was faulty and it could kill and corrupt the entire machine.
Gonna ask him again. Just to be sure.
He said it was faulty and it could kill and corrupt the entire machine.
Gonna ask him again. Just to be sure.
Mammoth Jones
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Should i even bother for my 2012 mbp?
Zombie James
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Why not? I don't get the reluctance.
Mammoth Jones
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Don't want it to slow my shit down any more than it already is.
The Real Abed
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He's full of shit. He just doesn't want to do more work having to support a newer OS.The Mac (not sure of the model, says it's 2.7ghz Intel Core i5 and has 8GB RAM ) I use at work has OSX 10.8.2. and asked the IT guy if there was a chance to upgrade it, just for the hell of it.
He said it was faulty and it could kill and corrupt the entire machine.
Gonna ask him again. Just to be sure.
Still, 10.8 is 5 years old. So it's probably a machine from 2012 or so. Does it still have an optical drive? I think that's about the time they removed them.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Just a quick heads-up that there's a 0-day out there, affects older OSes as well:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-macos-high-sierra-password-vulnerable-to-password-stealing-hack/
As always, be careful with whatever you install on your systems or the email that you open.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-macos-high-sierra-password-vulnerable-to-password-stealing-hack/
As always, be careful with whatever you install on your systems or the email that you open.
eyeball_kid
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Kind of a dick move for a security researcher to announce a 0-day during High Sierra's launch without first submitting this to Apple privately (no mention of this was made).
NekoFever
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It says in the article that he reported it a month ago. But still a dick move because companies normally ask for a 90-day window to develop and test a patch when these things are reported.
Yes. However, only Skylake and newer Macs get hardware acceleration for 8-bit HEVC (so 2015 27" iMac, 2016 MacBooks and MacBook Pros, 2017 21.5" iMac), and only Kaby Lake gets HW acceleration for 10-bit (so 2017 MacBook/MacBook Pro/iMac). Other Macs use software decoders (so performance may vary).
The 2016 15" MBP could theoretically use the GPU to get hardware acceleration for 10-bit HEVC, but Apple has not implemented this for some dumb reason.
AlphaTwo00
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same question.2011 Mbp with a win7 boot camp.
At some point I should just junk the entire thing and move o
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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Even knowing that this is simply Sierra+ it's still surprising how little outward changes there are here.
MacOS has felt stagnant for a long time now...
MacOS has felt stagnant for a long time now...
2013 MBP user here and wondering the same. I should probably sell it off. Not really gettin* much use these days.
The Real Abed
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It's worth it for my late 2013 MBP.
With the new battery, keyboard, trackpad, top and bottom case I got a couple months ago I'll have no reason to get rid of it for a while so every OS update counts for me.
I need to change my battery (Service Battery warning has been on for well over a year) but I'm afraid that since my storage is SSD it might die on me and the battery replacement would be a waste of money.
I'm only getting about 2hrs of battery life on my Air
Very Berry Sunday
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Yes, I want to play videos to up to 3x or 4x speed. I can do that on Chrome, but no on Safari so far.
mmazurkiewicz
Member
well that stop autoplaying sounds thing didn't work for me...
just got hit with a video in a yahoo article.
just got hit with a video in a yahoo article.
Mammoth Jones
Member
Yea, I plan to get a new laptop this winter. I really don't know if from a power/hardware perspective a 2017 mbp is much better for my use case which includes light gaming. It's the best laptop I've ever owned. Can't decide if I wanna try going back to windows. But whatever I get I want it to last another 5 years.
FreshCakes
Banned
Is this worth updating now or should I wait?
Im rolling the dice right now.
Mailenstein
Member
Any news on battery life for 2016 touch bar MBPs?
Also finally getting that Photos people iCloud sync!
Also finally getting that Photos people iCloud sync!
The Real Abed
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Why would it die on you?I need to change my battery (Service Battery warning has been on for well over a year) but I'm afraid that since my storage is SSD it might die on me and the battery replacement would be a waste of money.
I'm only getting about 2hrs of battery life on my Air
SSDs don't generally just up and die like HDDs do, they gradually break down but you usually have plenty of warning before they're unusable.
Also just make sure you have a backup.
How old is the Air?
PhoncipleBone
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On a late 2014 15" MBP. I really want to upgrade, but usually wait a revision or two before diving in. The move to the new file system is what intrigues me and worries me most.
Maybe try it on my Mac Mini upstairs first and see how that goes since that is just an iTunes server and emulation machine in the end.
Maybe try it on my Mac Mini upstairs first and see how that goes since that is just an iTunes server and emulation machine in the end.
Oh yeah, he's a lazy guy who helps absolutely no one around the office, but I just thought that was a hilarious excuse to avoid doing any work.
This one doesn't, and going by the specs, this Mac is from around 2012 or so.
The Real Abed
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I assume they'd scold you if you went ahead and updated it anyway. Probably not good to risk the job. lol
He'd probably chew you out and take the laptop and restore it back to 10.8 again. Surely as an IT person he'd WANT an up to date OS at least to close up all the vulnerabilities.
Gamespawn
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Restart an immediately hold command option R until you see the Apple logo. Itll reinstall your os with the latest public release. Make sure your internets good and your data is backed up and you have free time. Mine took 2h30m
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Yeah, weaker, while also having to drive higher resolution screen. I would switch to dgpu the moment I plug the computer in. I even have the old version of gfxCardStatus that would do that automatically. Now I honestly don't care, and won't bother doing that anymore. This is the first time in the last 5 years of owning 15" MBPs that things are finally smooth on iGPU, so that alone makes this my favorite OS update on Mac.
The Real Abed
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The OS should have been bugging you every day with a "Release version available!" notification that you would use to download the installer. At least that's what both my machines did.
Then open System Preferences and go to the App Store pane. Find the option that says "Your computer is set to receive beta software updates" and Change it.
I'm deciding myself if I want to jump off now that it's out.
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Reading these notes, it definitely seems like it's one of the least flashy and consumer-facing macOS updates Apple has put out. Still, I welcome any and all progress they can make.
The Main Event
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Seems fine on my 2016 MBP so far except for this weird UI issue:
Yeah it kinda feels like there's just a skeleton crew of engineers maintaining macOS and porting over (some of) the new iOS features each year.
These yearly macOS updates have mostly been about achieving parity with iOS, yet they still have a long ways to go. I want my Home app / HomeKit support. And iCloud backup / Time Machine. Fix the long neglected Mac App Store. And not that I'm clamoring for the News app, but it seems crazy that it came out for the damn Apple Watch before Mac.
Super solid release for me. Last month, I set up a remote backup device with my old MacBook Air and a pair of external discs. I've been wanting to set it up as a remote time machine server, too, but that functionality was locked behind a $20 paid "macOS server" app, and I didn't want to risk having to rebuy the app if it wasn't updated for free along with the rest of the OS. Now, it seems they've added the time machine sever functionality to the base so, for free. Sweet!
The Real Abed
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They specifically said at WWDC that High Sierra was just a small update with mostly under the hood changes like Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard were.
That's a weird bug.
I'm still on Parallels 10 and it still seems to work fine. Though the app keeps bugging me to upgrade to 13 for $50. Which if you think about it isn't that bad when it would have been $150 if I'd upgraded every year. Except that I literally rarely ever use Parallels because the only reason I even kept Windows around was to play Spelunky. Hell, if Mossmouth announced tomorrow that they were porting Spelunky to the Switch, I'd delete Parallels and Windows off my machine completely.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Did Apple change any of the messages tones in High Sierra? I'm on Synth and didn't used to be -- so either my tone changed during install or I had overwritten the synth tone with something better in the past and Apple restored it during the High Sierra upgrade, I'm trying to figure out which.
SuperEpicMan
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Has anyone had any weird processes on their devices since updating? I seem to have bird and cloudd using around 100% and 75% of the CPU making the fans go wild. Not sure how to fix it.
Dreams-Visions
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Anywhere to look to find out what applications might break? I have a few mission-critical apps. Them not working is not an option, even for a day.
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