Of all the announcements at Apple’s developer conference, I think the OS X Mavericks one caught my interest the most.\u00a0 Yes, all day battery life in the MacBook Air is very welcome, but I can’t upgrade my Air yet.\u00a0 The Mac Pro announcement was long overdue.\u00a0 IOS7 is a work in progress with not much value added to meet my eyes.\u00a0 iWork on the web?\u00a0 Yawn.\u00a0 Nobody is even mentioning the Time Machine in the Air Express.\u00a0 But the updated operating system?\u00a0 There might be something I can use in there.<\/p>\n
Finder Tabs looks very useful.\u00a0 Instead of having a multitude of mishmash Finder windows minimized in my icon bar, the plan is to put them in tabs like multiple browser windows.\u00a0 This might be useful, especially with the ability to move files from one tab to another by dragging and dropping.<\/p>\n
Tags sounds like it has good potential, especially for people who use iCloud.\u00a0 See, there’s no file system in the iCloud.\u00a0 Files in iCloud are very app dependent, which is a problem for cross-app files and for finding things on a laptop or desktop platform.\u00a0 iCloud is useless to me for files, because it takes an all or nothing approach, and I have too much of all to be able to use iCloud without paying Apple for storage, and I have too many other options to be able to justify that, so I sync iCal and the one or two other Apple apps I can’t sync any other way, and that’s it.\u00a0 Which means Tags probably won’t be useful to me, either, but it seems to offer possibilities.<\/p>\n
The ability to use iBooks on a laptop or desktop computer is long, long overdue, but at least Apple has finally made that possible now.\u00a0 Could it even help iBooks to be a relevant ebook platform?\u00a0 Not for me it won’t.<\/p>\n
Will the supposed improved scrolling and under the hood performance serve my needs?\u00a0 Hard to say.\u00a0 Will it run on my late 2008 Mac Mini?\u00a0 Not really a relevant question, since I plan to upgrade the machine around Christmas time.\u00a0 The addition of the new Mac Pro has made that a question of whether I’ll choose a higher end Mac Mini or a lower end Mac Pro.\u00a0 The information on the Mac Pro is too sketchy to say at this point, and I haven’t heard if Apple will upgrade the Mac Mini series this fall or not.<\/p>\n
I’m currently running Snow Leopard on my Mini and Lion on my Air.\u00a0 Mavericks looks interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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