u/juliangray

Mac OS 27 Beta feels incredibly fast, (noticeably so with things like app openings, airdrop, etc.) It's a marvel of engineering in that way.

However In my opinion, Tahoe was significantly sleeker/more modern 'feeling' in the design department than this Golden Gate beta

I've been using the beta on a second machine and it feels like I'm jumping back in time going to it from my Tahoe MacBook Pro. (similar to the feeling of using Catalina coming from Big Sur felt a few years ago) I actually love the raised side bar in Tahoe, it felt elegant and clean. something about this feels wrong or backtrack-y to me in a way that I've never experienced with an apple software update.

More than anything, I really can't get behind these tighter window edge radiuses, it feels antiquated after a year with the wider radius. I'm so glad they worked out the radius uniformity, but I wish they unified them in the wider Tahoe look. This just *feels* out of date now to me.

Further, I know it's controversial, but the lack of the icons in the context menus is really throwing me off and I actually found them super helpful/beautiful. Its one of those things where you see something and you will never unsee it now that it's gone. (lol)

The one advantage I've seen from GG is that I can make Liquid Glass even more transparent (more similar to the initial promised look from the Tahoe keynote) The dock does look nice on maximum translucency on GG more than Tahoe. In many ways it feels more 'Aqua' like in the new version, and as a 20+ year Mac user that is a tasteful homage.

I really hope this isn't the final design language.
many things feel like an overcorrection in a bad way.