Toortog

I work in audio so OSX upgrades aren't a good thing.  Seems it takes months and months for audio applications to say they are compatible so it's become the normal to wait and upgrade right before the next new OSX.   If not for security updates I might not upgrade at all.  Before I retired my Macs I used for work were usually on OSX versions years old, as they say... if it ain't broke don't fix it.     

Apple adding all this AI is something I view as a negative so I might be sticking on Sonoma for a long time.   To me AI is more crap chewing up CPU cycles that I don't use.    I come from many years of working as a SysAdmin in Windows and Unix world and used to doing lean and mean setups of computers dedicated to specific tasks.   One of the things I like about Unix is more the Unix install have an option for a bare bones install so extra unwanted stuff is installed.   Windows didn't offer a barebone install, but the for companies I worked for they modified the Windows installer to create bare bones installs for servers.   I really wish Apple would offer a bare bones install option, so those building Macs for audio, video, or other specific use could do a lightweight install.  

Back to main topic it will be interesting to see where OS X is at this time next year when some of the AI has rolled out.   

Apple just kill them off and be done with it.   Yippee more colors from it's 31 shades of ice cream collection of colors and a USBC port.    Same ridiculous price, my headphones for my audio work costless.  My guess is in a few months Apple will have it let empty the warehouse sale on these things so leaving the price crazy high so blowing them out at 30% off they'll still make money. 

I guess I'm that one,   I finally got a car that has Apple CarPlay and didn't like it and prefer using the car default system.  Maybe because the car I had before this didn't have CarPlay and I used the built in system and fully used to it.    Car Play didn't seem any easier to use than my car's default,  my iPhone's battery drained even faster when I used CarPlay and finally my data use on my cellular provider for the first time I hit my limit,  CarPlay is too chatty even if using just the basics like playing music and occasional map.    I switched back the the cars default system and more battery life and cell data back to just music.    

I think a lot of this is Apple marketing trying downplay Google/Android.   I forget the acronym for the default system used my most the car makers, but it a basic system that was created by Google.   Apple marketing doesn't want people to like anything Google ever if they don't even know it's a Google app. 

I'm getting old so didn't see most the movies that were nominated I did see Killers of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer.   Part of the reason is movies are getting too dam long going three hour plus that is keeping me away from the theaters.   So long movie I will wait for them to stream so I can pause for bathroom breaks, plus watching on my 27" iMac and good monitors its still an excellent visual and audio experience.    Back to the movie I thought Killers of the Flower Moon was excellent and the movie I was hoping would win.   Oppenheimer was good movie, but I don't think it deserved all  the awards it won.  Only other film I was pulling for that didn't win was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.  I liked the style of the graphics and the change ups in the story from the old Batman.   

I'm sure Apple is disappointed, but don't think that will curtail them from making more movies, they have received a lot of good press for Killers of the Flower Moon and a lot of the important word of mouth from those that saw it.   

It's a paper spec bump, but will the average Apple user even notice a difference with their typical use.  As fast as Apple's M-series chips are the only people who are even going to notice are people working in graphic heavy jobs.   Forget spec's is the computer faster doing your daily computer tasks.