![]() ![]() Surely, Apple, that would have taken moments to sort? This is fine, but when you hit the chevrons to reveal a drop-down menu showing the other tabs, there’s no option in the menu to close them there and then. One thing, though (and this is the most Edge of Edge Cases): if you open tons of tabs, two chevrons appear to the right of the tab bar to show the overflow. ![]() In Mavericks, you can drag a folder or file up to a tab, and it pretty much instantly switches to the new location. In Mountain Lion, you’d either open two Finder windows, or turn to the spring loading of folders as you worked your way up and down folder hierarchies. But then, we can understand the benefit when copying files between folders. Now, we’ve never understood why this is such a massive deal for so many people (after all, you can put as many folders as you like in the Sidebar with a simple drag’n’drop). Good times, people (although not such good times for Cocoatech, the independent developers of Path Finder, which has offered OS X tabs for years). They even mimic the interface style of those in Safari. Mac fanboys of the world unite: Apple has heard your howls of agony. It’s so natural that it makes you wonder why it wasn’t there before.īut although Maps is a tidy addition to the OS, it’s unlikely to make us ditch Google Maps as our main way of finding stuff – especially after Google’s recent upgrade took it from good to glorious. And if you’re checking out directions on your sofa in the evening, you can send them through to your iPad or iPhone for the trip in the morning. Maps will tap into your Apple Contacts book to make finding someone really fast. Still, maybe we’re in a minority, and the Rest Of The World is punching the air at Mac iBook’s arrival.Īs you’d expect, iBooks desktop syncs happily with your literary purchases through the iTunes Book Store, and across your iDevices through iCloud.īy comparison, the Maps app is a more sensible addition – immediately switch it to fullscreen mode on your laptop, and have it running permanently on one of your desktops, ready to access with a two-fingered sweep of the trackpad. Now open iBooks on your Mac, and you’ll realise that there’s something wrong about reading in landscape on a laptop. ![]() ![]() Both make reading in iBooks is a natural experience – you tap and swipe, with the book’s pages filling a portrait screen so you can concentrate on the words. Many of us at Stuff towers own an iPad or an iPhone. Quite why is slightly beyond us – particularly in the case of iBooks. Now, desktop users get to join the club – Mavericks introduces Apple Maps and iBooks as stand-alone applications. See those two new icons? For years, iOS users have been using iBooks and Apple Maps (in the case of the latter, through gritted teeth). Launch into Mavericks after the upgrade and look at the Dock. That said, we did notice an apparent improvement in battery life: unplugged at 100% charge, the menu bar’s battery indicator would regularly show five and a half hours remaining, compared to the more normal five hours we’d grown accustomed to with Mountain Lion. We’d swear during our week with Mavericks that the 13in Air ran slightly cooler, and the laptop’s fan seemed to cut in less often, but we didn’t notice a significant improvement in responsiveness and performance – mostly because it was already fast enough. Our test 2012 Macbook Air 13in, with its 256GB SSD hard drive, was already stupidly damn quick when running Mountain Lion. It’s at this point that we hit the problem with appraising Mavericks’ improvements. Then there’s Timer Coalescing, which sprinkles some magic to give your CPU more downtime. In fact, Apple claims that Mavericks is 1.4x more responsive under load than Mountain Lion, and will wake 1.5x faster from standby. In theory, performance of the active application should benefit. Mavericks comes with a ton of highly geeky tweaks to Mac OS X under the hood, most of which aim to make your battery last longer, and improve the responsiveness of the interface.Ĭompressed Memory, for example, automatically reduces the memory allocated to inactive apps as your machine begins to run out of headroom. ![]()
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