The new look is nice to use, and certainly not as polarising as Windows 8 has been for Microsoft users, but ultimately can be filed under 'cleaner, better, yet familiar'. With Apple apps a double tap on the title bar also expands it to be larger but not full screen. If that sounds hideous then you can press alt at the same time to revert back to the random size option.

Instead of randomly resizing the window sightly bigger it makes the app go full screen (it replaces the two arrow full-screen icon). Everything from the red, yellow, and green buttons, to the icons, have been reduced to a minimum and the green button action has now been changed. There is a new streamlined toolbar that tries to remove a lot of the clutter too. While it doesn't completely match the sparsity of iOS 8, it certainly looks a lot cleaner than previous outings.įor starters OS X Yosemite bears is a new font, designed specifically for the Retina display found on the MacBook Pro laptop line, that brings in a much cleaner, thinner, visual experience. Probably the biggest and most visual change is that OS X has undergone a systematic cleansing of the user interface. Of course, some things haven't changed at all. Then there are the new features, changes to your favourite features, changes to things you didn't previously use and won't use this time around, and changes under the hood that you'll never notice. There are plenty of changes but in typical Apple style most are tweaks that you'll realise that couldn't live without within a week of using them, and question why they never existed before.

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