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macOS Sonoma Launching This Week With These New Features (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast

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TL;DR: macOS Sonoma launching on September 26 brings desktop widgets, Game Mode for gaming performance, web apps in the Dock, new screen savers, Safari profiles, and more features to compatible Macs.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

macOS has no games. Apple: “here’s gaming mode!”

There is actually so much in Sonoma and tied to its release. Apple’s GPTK makes 90% of PC games playable. Sonoma also brings a slew of improvements to general rendering.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Apple’s GPTK makes 90% of PC games playable.

Using GPTK through Whiskey enabled me to play the Portal games again, games I've been unable to play since Apple ditched all 32 bit support and Steam didn't see the value in updating them. It's wonderful.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Grocery Lists in Reminders automatically group related items into sections as you add them

Unless it groups them by aisle, it better not touch my grocery list…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

It does not and the feature is optional

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

The grouping is shit and in my opinion makes the list harder to parse. But it’s optional so no harm.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hey Apple, how about you start putting proper GPUs in your computers first, before wasting time on this "Game Mode" nonsense. Software tricks are no replacement for silicon.

[–] NightAuthor 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Their integrated graphics are apparently sufficient for a significant amount of games. I don’t think they’re going back to using third party gpus

[–] deranger 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely not. They’re not going to forfeit the massive battery life advantage from switching to ARM, nor do they want the heat from a dGPU cooking the batteries.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I have a 15" MacBook Air, which has the basic M2 chip. As of this weekend I've put just over 40 hours into No Man's Sky, running it at full native resolution on Ultra. An older game now, sure, but it's still pretty heavy.

My Mac has no fan, and still barely breaks a sweat. I've been blown away by what it can do.