Three days after the last release, Apple has seeded an updated build of the OS X 10.10.3 software update for Mac. The new build ranks in at 14D130a, just a few steps above the 14D127 build released at the start of the week, for both developers and public beta testers. The update measures in at 1.52GB and highlights stability and security improvements.
The new version of OS X Yosemite includes the all-new Photos for Mac app, new and diverse emoji characters, improved login for Google accounts, and developer APIs for Force Touch on the new 12-inch MacBook and 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. While Apple has not shared the exact release date for OS X 10.10.3, it describes the included Photos app as “coming this spring” meaning the public release is likely imminent.
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Wonder if it fixes Garageband crashing.
Has this been pulled? Was holding off with installing it till now, and it’s not showing up in AppStore update :( Still running previous beta :(
No, its still there. Try restarting your computer, it didn’t show up for me until this morning when I rebooted my computer.
I have installed the beta yesterday on my 10.10.2 iMac late 2013 model with i7 & 8GB RAM – it works so far pretty well.
Installation was straightforward (as usual with Apple) and quick (less than 5 mins).
Photos is so far pretty good and improves greatly on 2 things compared to Aperture: memory footprint and speed/responsiveness.
I have a 90GB photo library with 18k pics. Before installing 10.10.3 beta I was reviewing it for doubles and pics to delete in Aperture while watching Netflix in Safari, in a side by side window setup. The Mac would hang sometimes as Aperture would use more and more memory (up around 10GB) with swap file use (a few GBs) and heavy memory compression (Memory Pressure was yellow/orange most of the time).
Photos instead, stayed steadily at about 2GB memory usage for its process, and scrolling of pics was quick and snappy, leaving me wondering what they changed so much to make the experience feel so fluid compared to Aperture. Memory Pressure was always green and no swap file was necessary. My thoughts of upgrading RAM disappeared and postponed to when it will be cheaper.
After opening Photos, a copy of my library was made (so I ended with two 90GB libraries, one of which is the older Aperture one) in a few minutes during migration and everything was were I expected it to be. My Aperture folder structure was also retained.
One big caveat though – iTunes apparently does not allow me to sync my pics anymore with either Aperture, Photos or iPhoto (also installed on the system). If that doesn’t change, it means then that iTunes photos sync will be available only via a simple directory (only available option presented me) and not via a Photos library.
Which means, either I use iCloud Photo Library, which in my case seems to be extremely cumbersome (let alone expensive and at 6Mbps upload speed of my cable connection will take *FOREVER*), or I need to rely on Photo Stream and/or export function to have on my phone my last x most recent events….. :(