![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Until we see third-party applications, there isn't much fresh meat for desktop-only work on High Sierra's bones.The new capabilities are really about mobile-first tasks like organizing and editing Live Photos or being able to playback HEVC video and display HEIF-compressed photos - which have to be captured with your mobile device. At the moment, it's all about mobileĪnd by mobile, I mean devices that run iOS 11 ( iPhone and iPad), not MacBooks. The new iCloud File Sharing is for collaborating on documents a la Google Drive, and Apple offers sufficient control over viewing and editing shared documents. Siri's voice does sound more natural, and if you own a MacBook with a Touchbar, you'll be able to do more with it: double tap to mute, swipe for brightness and volume, access an improved color picker and more. So if you're curious about that before it's final, you can probably wait at least a month before installing the beta, and by then you may have beta versions of some other applications to try. To really understand how High Sierra will change the desktop experience, we'll have see how applications implement support for the new APIs. However a bug prevented me from trying it with an APFS-formatted drive. The Snapshot feature in the APFS file system maintains copies of your system state for easy backup and restoration, but I didn't test it by forcing a crash, and as yet Time Machine is the only application that can speed backup by using it. For instance, at the moment, the only part of the system that takes visible advantage of the Metal 2 graphics API is Mission Control. We're still waiting on software companies to take advantage of the new application programming interfaces to speed up operation. By "invisible," I mean you probably won't notice a difference between Sierra and High Sierra in your everyday use, unless you're a developer or an avid Photos user. ![]()
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