Mac OS Sequoia Beta

Donux

Hi,

Has anyone tried to enable beta downloads and try MAC OS Sequoia? I have hope that apple will have some changes applied which incorporates feedback on eye strain they have received so far (direct channels, forums, etc.). I personally kind of thinking of installing it, but maybe someone already did it, this would save some time.

JTL

Donux I hate the bearer of bad news, but unless someone involved with engineering at these "big tech companies" (not necessarily just Apple) either experiences issues themselves, or some combination of them being really bored (joke) or we have empirical "evidence" what could be wrong along with the internal connections to get the evidence in front of "the right people" (and not another customer service drone) I'm not optimistic for change in the right direction

Donux

JTL I am optimistic it will get better with time, as at the end of the day - the same people working on this technology are also using this technology.

JTL

Donux As someone else here once said regarding correlating positive reviews from "normal" people with reduced probability of a product causing eyestrain, and I feel a similar concept applies here as well.

All of those quotes from people you're quoting with VA panels espousing their virtues are not people who experience the types of severe debilitating eye strain discussed in these forums. Their perspectives are nice and all, and may hint at potential options, but really bear little relevance to us as a group.

That is to say if you really think these issues are going to be solved by virtue of engineers using the same technology they develop. I think you are mistaken. If that was true Samsung would not try to justify in continuing to utilize PWM flicker in their OLED displays of which they are the primary supplier for the industry, Apple would not be regressing eye comfort with miniLED, etc. That is to say not that change is impossible but barring the above caveats it's unlikely to come from the engineers themselves.

Donux

JTL Good point. But I still refuse to internalize learned hopelessness, I like macs a lot, and some solution will be found I believe - either external or software based. Also, just to make sure we are not stuck in constant complaining, I have contacted notebookcheck.com to ask if they could share some more details about temporal dithering testing. Even without finding a solution, just good product testing would be enough. The big confusion now is - people read reviews and think that device A and device B are absolutely fine only to find that it is not. This can make someone really mad. So testing is too poor and could be improved.

autobot

JTL I agree that these issues won't be solved by engineers at most companies.

I think that a company needs to view this as a niche, a profitable niche, with an option for growth.

And a small company is better, because this niche would be more meaningful for them.

And it needs to require the minimal amount of work/change/risk from that company.

And maybe, once this exists from a smaller company, and becomes somewhat popular, it would convince bigger companies to add that too.

What do you think ?

Donux

Anyone did update already ? I know it is available for me, but I did not update yet. I am interested to know if it gets better or worse.

degen

Donux For me, Sequoia is exactly the same as Sonoma, which is not good. They did not fix the problems introduced in Sonoma. Just my experience though.