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  • > Golden Gate is our second consecutive release named for a body of water, following a stretch of releases named for towns/regions (Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, Sequoia)

    Monterey is a body of water tho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Bay

    So is Sonoma if you're talking about the Creek instead of the Valley surrounding the creek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoma_Creek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa_Sonoma_Marsh

    by Lammy
  • Hmm, I remember when Ars Technica macOS reviews were the gold standard. This one isn't bad, but I miss having more in-depth information about the improvements.

    In my opinion, the details here complement the Ars Technica article nicely:

    https://www.macstories.net/stories/macos-27-the-macstories-r...

    by therealmarv
  • When are they gonna make "macOS South Central"?
    by CodeWriter23
  • how to disable gen ai features

    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250012366

    it used to be one toggle

    by carlob
  • I've found today after going to MacOS27 (I skipped 26 fully) that Chrome extensions don't load properly. They're super, super slow. I've found one or two other bug reports of this from older Dev builds but that's it. Bizarre. Time to flip back to Safari I suppose.
    by muppetman
  • Lost 20GB out of the usable 40GB on "256"GB Mac to the useless local models :/
    by thereeldeel
  • When was the last time you felt excitement for a macOS release?

    Me? Snow Leopard.

    When I transitioned to Linux I rediscovered OS excitement. I'm on KDE Plasma now and every update has exciting features that serves my interests.

    by mikae1
  • "...Golden Gate needed a whopping 17GB more space on the M1 MacBook Air, thanks to a mandatory multi-gigabyte language model download that kicks in automatically the first time you connect a freshly restored Golden Gate Mac to the Internet."

    This is the main thing stopping me from updating iOS/macOS. It's completely unacceptable to park a bunch of space on my devices right when that storage is at its most expensive it's ever been.

    My phone is on iOS 26, and even with Apple Intelligence turned off, there's ~13GB made unusable. My phone ran out of space while recording a bike trip, and yet the model I have no use for remained.

    by ProfessorLayton

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