The visual design is, overall, a triumph of elegant efficiency-and the new look is spectacular on a Retina display-though I have mixed feelings about some aspects of the redesign and some minor doubts about a few new features. Windows 8.1 is certainly no slouch as a fast, convenient desktop OS, but where Microsoft's OS struggles to jam together a tablet OS and a desktop OS into a single system-and ends up with two different browsers and other needless duplications-OS X gets it right by letting the desktop OS and the mobile OS each do what they do best, while letting them share and communicate in a completely new way.Īs always with OS X upgrades, the learning curve for the new features is essentially nonexistent, but you'll need to learn one or two simple tricks to use the new Continuity features to their fullest. Read our editorial mission (Opens in a new window) & see how we test (Opens in a new window). Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. Or you can start a mail message in OS X, then rush out the door with your iPad or iPhone and finish and send the same message from your iOS device. That means you can answer a phone call on your iPhone and continue the conversation using the mic and speakers on your Mac. Terrific Continuity features let you use your iPhone or iPad (running iOS 8.1.1 ) as an extension of your Mac.
New features like annotations and markup in Mail and Preview are slotted smoothly into familiar apps. In our testing, Yosemite was blazingly fast on a MacBook Pro with a Retina ( at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) display, and, unsurprisingly, a bit slow on a 2010 MacBook that's also sluggish with everything else.Įverything in the OS gets a consistent, cleaned-up, flattened look. It's a free update for anyone using a Mac made in 2008 or later (and some 2007 models), but (of course) it works best with recent hardware. Yosemite remains the most technically spectacular manifestation of Apple's desktop OS ever, and now it's better than ever. The update addresses issues with Wi-Fi, email, Back to My Mac, and several other kinks and security concerns. OS X Yosemite-the tenth version of Apple's desktop operating system-gets its first update after a month of existence, with 10.10.1. System font won't likely be to everyone's taste.Minor inconsistencies in Continuity features.
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