I was put off by the discontinuation of support for OpenGL, OpenCL and NVIDIA, which was not good for working with Blender on macOS (I could no more render on GPU with Cycles). iCloud felt clumsy, apps like iOS Reminders sometimes didn’t update, the autocomplete feature sometimes didn’t synchronize properly between macOS and iOS, and some more quirks. I enjoyed the hardware build quality, the comfortable OS and the ecosystem, although I do think Apple is more skilled in creating hardware than software. I’ve been a macOS Blenderhead for about 4 years, until early 2019. Makes it easy to name the next release, however: BIGGER SUR. That said, developers tend to be a curious bunch, and throwing them a new chunk of custom hardware might actually be very attractive.

I agree that this might be the final nail in the coffin for many developers, though. I can’t see this being supportive for creative professionals, though. Great for the iOS consumer mass market, though. Sign of the times? Who knows.Īlso not a fan of over-sized icons and GUI components as seen in this version. I guess whoever came up with that moniker at the branding department at Apple must have been influenced (consciously or subconsciously) by a certain POTUS’s bombastic use of superlatives.

Initially I thought someone had made an April 1st joke, but no: it is the actual name of MacOS 11. That truly must the most ugly (or silliest) name ever to grace an operating system. I laughed out loud when I first encountered “BIG SUR”. It reminds me of earlier 8bit times and 16 bit times.īut I can’t see this helping Macs compete with over-powered Windows and Linux Intel machines. Personally I don’t mind the switch to a different CPU architecture.

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