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It’s been a bad week for apple. Before the next spate of “what happened to quality at Apple” articles come out... I would love to know objectively if there are

It’s been a bad week for apple. Before the next spate of “what happened to quality at Apple” articles come out... I would love to know objectively if there are actually more problems or if it’s just bigger impact or an unfortunate run of problems (happens...).

ghostcluster 9y ago
Before this year, I had never seen an Ars Technica review of a major OS X release with a GIF like this: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sep-23-2017-12-41-55.gif http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sep-23...
- nikanj 9y ago
  Which article is that from?
  - ghostcluster 9y ago
    > Unfortunately, my experience with the new Metal-driven window server hasn’t been flawless. I’ve run into graphical glitching on both my MacBook Pro and iMac that have persisted into the GM build, and I’ve seen developers on Twitter posting about the same thing. Most of the glitches seem benign (blinking videos, webpages, or 3D graphics), but some seem serious (I can reliably make Finder windows flip out as in the GIF above, and older Nvidia systems have been running into kernel panics throughout the beta process and into the GM). Hopefully, these are issues that can be ironed out in the first couple High Sierra updates and are not ongoing discoveryd-type problems that Apple needs to walk back. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sierra-the-ars-technica-review/7/#h1 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sie...
    - ksec 9y ago
      Hence that is why i never liked or trust Graphics Hardware acceleration when you dont have access to the source for Drivers. I really wish Apple would just ship their own GPU in Mac as well, but many people dislike the idea because Apple is unlikely to provide an GPU drivers for Windows, meaning dual booting is no longer an option.

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It’s been a bad week for apple. Before the next spate of “what happened to quality at Apple” articles come out... I would love to know objectively if there are

by datahack 9y ago

ghostcluster 9y ago
Before this year, I had never seen an Ars Technica review of a major OS X release with a GIF like this: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sep-23-2017-12-41-55.gif http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sep-23...
- nikanj 9y ago
  Which article is that from?
  - ghostcluster 9y ago
    > Unfortunately, my experience with the new Metal-driven window server hasn’t been flawless. I’ve run into graphical glitching on both my MacBook Pro and iMac that have persisted into the GM build, and I’ve seen developers on Twitter posting about the same thing. Most of the glitches seem benign (blinking videos, webpages, or 3D graphics), but some seem serious (I can reliably make Finder windows flip out as in the GIF above, and older Nvidia systems have been running into kernel panics throughout the beta process and into the GM). Hopefully, these are issues that can be ironed out in the first couple High Sierra updates and are not ongoing discoveryd-type problems that Apple needs to walk back. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sierra-the-ars-technica-review/7/#h1 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sie...
    - ksec 9y ago
      Hence that is why i never liked or trust Graphics Hardware acceleration when you dont have access to the source for Drivers. I really wish Apple would just ship their own GPU in Mac as well, but many people dislike the idea because Apple is unlikely to provide an GPU drivers for Windows, meaning dual booting is no longer an option.