NFT: OS X Yosemite being released today

figure out a way to get a new phone before contract renewal without paying full price for the phone?

far are you away from your upgrade date, Jon?

for the new OS for Mac's whats the oldest model Mac that will support it?

Glad they're bringing camera roll back. Getting rid of it made less than 0 sense.

My upgrade is November 4th.. do you think they'd just give it to me early if I went in there now and traded in my iPhone 5? Or should I just wait the 3 weeks or whatever it is. I know it's soon anyway.. but if I could just get it now, I'd rather.

In comment 11923489 arcarsenal said:

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Glad they're bringing camera roll back. Getting rid of it made less than 0 sense. My upgrade is November 4th.. do you think they'd just give it to me early if I went in there now and traded in my iPhone 5? Or should I just wait the 3 weeks or whatever it is. I know it's soon anyway.. but if I could just get it now, I'd rather.

If you're with verizon you should be able to. They said anyone with an upgrade date of November 15th or earlier would be able to upgrade early

Yeah, I have Verizon. I'm gonna stop in after work.. hopefully they just let me do it early. I don't see why they wouldn't.

you checked your upgrade date on my verizon recently? It should show you are eligible now

As a special thank you to our existing customers, all Verizon customers who would be eligible to upgrade on or before November 15th have had their upgrade dates changed to become upgrade eligible immediately. These customers can now upgrade to any device currently in our lineup, with new two year contract. Customers should check My Verizon to confirm upgrade eligibility.

the retina macbook air would come today even though it was very unlikely, oh well. The macbook air is the best laptop ive ever owned, getting one with a retina display will be the tits.

Mook, I actually haven't checked since the 6 was announced so I was totally unaware of that. Thanks.

until Intel's Broadwell chip is released. Would be nice though and I would like to see a 15" in the Air.

we will see 15" in the air but I'd buy it in a second.

The rumors are it will be 12" Retina MBA. I have 13" now but would give up an inch for the retina.

When are broadwell chips supposed to come out?

next August.

pretty much stuck unfortunately

I just might bite the bullet. After having a Note 3 at my last job, I want a 5.5" phone ... Note or 6 Plus, tbd.

for mine and sold my 5s for like 400. So basically 500 out of pocket for the 64gb plus. I switched to verizon last year so had to get the 5s, but I want to get on the non-s schedule, so next time ill upgrade will be for the 7

Went dead after just under four years. Went with an HP laptop instead. Better specs at half the price.

For all the criticism of Windows I always had problems with OSX updates and glitches.

I'll keep using an IPhone and IPad but for laptops I'll never go back. Too

I asked the dude if he had any idea when Yosemite was coming out. He did not.

In comment 11923588 MookGiants said:

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we will see 15" in the air but I'd buy it in a second. The rumors are it will be 12" Retina MBA. I have 13" now but would give up an inch for the retina. When are broadwell chips supposed to come out?

Broadwell has been pushed back til the first half of next year, but Intel is also releasing their next generation architecture, Skyline in the second half of next year. I don't know if Apple will wait til Skyline, kind of hope they do. Supposedly the Skyline architecture will be one biggest advancements in the last decade.

In comment 11923694 Sammo284 said:

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Went dead after just under four years. Went with an HP laptop instead. Better specs at half the price. For all the criticism of Windows I always had problems with OSX updates and glitches. I'll keep using an IPhone and IPad but for laptops I'll never go back. Too

lol I'm the reverse

I got my Macbook in 2008 and am trying to string as much time out of it as I possibly can.

But, I've only ever had Android phones and am on the fence about getting the iPhone now that I can upgrade.

Or do I have to do an intermediary upgrade to Mavericks first?

is now red, and iTunes itself has different buttons.

FOREVER to download

for iphone 6s and that covered the upgrade costs. I'm not sure if they're still doing that, but it was a good deal.

Looking forward to Apple Pay - I've missed nfc payments from Android.

Had to order it and it'll be about a week. OH WELL.

If you paid attention instead of worrying about that girl marrying that douche

In comment 11923961 arcarsenal said:

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Had to order it and it'll be about a week. OH WELL.

Check this out. Tells you what's in stock at every Apple Store

http://www.seaturtle.org/idevice/iphone6_grid.shtml

These phones came out like a month ago, how do Verizon stores not have them in stock by now. The girl tried telling me it won't ship until November 7th but the other guy told me they ship out before that and will probably go out early next week and be at the store by the end of the week.

They had the plus I think but that shit is too big. I already have an iPad mini.

13 hours? Get outta here.

or go to an apple store, even if you're a Verizon customer.

In comment 11923973 arcarsenal said:

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13 hours? Get outta here.

You guys must have slow internet. I downloaded it at about 730 and it only took 20 minutes

I'll just cancel the order tomorrow and order it straight through Apple, it'll probably be faster.

My says 22 min.

I have no idea what the problem is. My downloads are usually not slow at all.

figured out how to send and receive sms texts on yosemite? It says it can be done but i can not figure it out

now is installing, 20 min it says.

can't figure out how to get the handoff to work going from my phone to my computer. I got it to work going from computer to phone, but not the other way around

In comment 11924119 MookGiants said:

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figured out how to send and receive sms texts on yosemite? It says it can be done but i can not figure it out

It is not available yet. Still beta testing. Will be enabled in a future update.

In comment 11923934 Giantology said:

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FOREVER to download

I started downloading the Yosemite around 6 pm and it finished around 11.

Its a huge download, over 6 gigs, and everyone is trying to do it at the same time, so the slow download is to be expected.

In comment 11924170 MookGiants said:

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can't figure out how to get the handoff to work going from my phone to my computer. I got it to work going from computer to phone, but not the other way around

I think you need to be logged into iCloud and both devices need to be on the same Wi-Fi network.

to download this morning. I installed it, but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet.

But it also made my computer a bit slower.


Anyone else get a message that you need to download Java when you turn on the computer? When I try to do that, it completely freezes my computer.

I'm annoyed with it a bit. I do front end development on my laptop and already having software issues with it...

Aside from that, I like it :)

It's so bright and "fun" looking.

Immediate impressions, right off the bat.

The battery/power menu shows "apps" by usage in terms consumers can relate to - it started in mobile on Android (and now ios) - without going into activity monitor and relating my actual usage into time, and continuing to sell "App" on the desktop.. Convenient (gonna be a theme here...)

Ive always used a launcher, latest is Alfred. Spotlight just ate the company. The user interaction of clicking the spotlight icon, and getting the search area in the middle of the screen (and not movable), is clearly aimed at those users, but it's a poor implementation. But, you have to get the masses used to it. The icon will be phased out I'm sure.

Good choice having the notifications panel be a fly out menu rather than shifting the whole desktop over. And it's more useful with widgets or extensions or whatever. More mobile features coming to desktop.

Safari is interesting. I like the new Favorites layout on new windows/tabs. Don't know about you but I have a ton of well indexed bookmarks I never actually revisit. also you can finally see your tabs visually grouped together in an overview. Also easy to see the tabs on my other devices and network.

Handoff good. Using phone sms etc on computer was sorely needed. Don't like the Bluetooth nature of it though.

Icon changes are poppy and clean. Little goofy looking, but more making the computer approachable to mobile first kids/people.

Despite that I'll be spending my time on a windows server in jump desktop.

They are definitely moving in a certain direction.

a lot of people are going to be closing windows by accident if they don't know to hit that green button again. the icon changes when you overlay the pointer. had read about that, sharing the heads up

it is slightly slower in general
(if you restart your computer it gets a little faster )

one nice thing it seems the lower on my computer is much louder

about the green dot.

Haven't noticed any slow down, either.

It does not work consistently or at all at times. What is a top 5 feature is sorely lacking for me at the moment.

Weak sauce. Weak sauce.

of issues with it at first but after logging out of icloud on both my computer and iphone it works pretty damn well now, not perfect but a ton better than it did

websites? Not sure what the cause but say you're scrolling down a retail website that shows 20 items, the next 20 are supposed to load when you hit the bottom (brooks brothers' site as an example), it just sits there waiting and never loads

In comment 11926014 MookGiants said:

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of issues with it at first but after logging out of icloud on both my computer and iphone it works pretty damn well now, not perfect but a ton better than it did

I tried this and it seems to be working with my iPad. To use Mail, however, I have to use the Apple client, but I use webmail on the desktop. Very tempting to go back to the Mail client for that alone. Will wait and see.

It's sporadic between my iPhone and iPad. and iPhone not going to laptop. I don't know if multiple devices are there yet, but it's a good start. Thanks for the tip.

and it looks like I'll need another Final Draft patch.

just released, I'm taking the chance that there arent any major issues and downloading it now, I want the sms relay

I can't get the sms relay to work because for some reason the verification code it is supposed to send to my mac is not coming through.

My exam software won't support Yosemite.


Anyone know if it's a complicated thing to go back to Maverick? Will I lose any documents? Better to go to the Apple Store and get a genius to do it?

easy peasy.

if I stop using it for a few seconds, it loses connection. No other device, whether ipad, iPhone or laptop in my house has this problem. Really f'ing annoying.

In comment 11932815 buford said:

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easy peasy.

No idea what that means. Haha

iphone 6 has NFC
and apple combine this with the touch ID
to create Apple Pay

you set up your credit card in your iphone and use your phone to pay at various retail and restaurants by touching the NFC pad in store and pressing your home button on your iphone

I mean my MacBook Pro. I need it to go back to Mavericks from Yosemite, but A) I don't know how and B) I don't want to lose any of my files.