A new Apple OS is always an exciting thing to get your hands on. Having got a new MBP earlier in the summer I took advantage of the even cheaper option to get an upgrade – it cost me ¥990 rather than the ¥3,300 Apple is charging everyone else in Japan. That’s a tad more, about $36 at current rates than the advertised $29 in the US, but it includes shipping from the Apple store, so not too bad – and certainly as good as making the time and paying the subway fare down to Ginza.
My copy arrived in a simple brown envelope on Wednesday 2 September, so a good five days after the launch. It took just over an hour to install – the original screen came up with 45 minutes, but the time jumped a little later on. It seems to do a lot of cleaning and optimisation during the process and restarts the machine, not at the beginning, but in the middle of the process.
After the re-start, there’s not a whole lot to report, not much you notice that’s different. The Preferences pane has changed, but I haven’t seen any alerts warning about 64- vs. 32-bit panes and I have a few installed.
- Kotoeri: I can’t find the handwriting input panel yet. My system is set to English, so I suspect you need to reset to Japanese to be able to use the track pad to write Kanji. If that’s true, then it’s no use to me.
- Firefox: Firefox has been acting strange, hanging and giving me very slow response since the upgrade. A lot of caches and things seem to have been cleared out so hopefully it’s just that.
- I somehow lost access to my Dashboard – not that I use it very much. F12 no longer responds even after resetting in the Keyboard shortcuts. I can get the Dashboard working if I use a hot-corner, but not from the keyboard at all.
- I found two new desktop pictures – of snow leopards of course – but only two.
I’ll see what else I can find.
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