On a 2017 MacBook Pro with a Core i7 CPU running a beta of High Sierra (build 17A362a), Safari scored a 258 on the JetStream benchmark, which trounces the 178 from Chrome and the 163 from Firefox. Safari's finally jumped past Chrome as the best browser on the Mac.Īpple claims that updates to the JavaScript engine in Safari make it the world's fastest browser, and our preliminary research proves their claims. This is major for me, as I can more easily share images via the photo browser in apps, and not have to weed them out of the large mass of other images.
Also, unlike that 2009 update, High Sierra is a free a download, and I’m told people like free things.Speaking of GIFs, Photos now supports them, and automatically organizes them all in a section called Animated. Though, as Apple points out, Snow Leopard was the last version of the operating system to be mostly focused on backend updates, and that sold pretty briskly. It doesn’t really have any big, forward facing marquee features compelling users to upgrade immediately. It will be interesting to see how download numbers compare to previous versions. You can check out all of the above and more in a handy feature I just published. As for immediate benefits to the end user, both Safari and Photos are getting some new feature updates, including better ad blocking and more advanced editing options, respectively. High Sierra also brings new video encoding for 4K and marks the arrival of Metal 2, which will offer graphical enhancements in the future.
That update will be mostly invisible to users in the short term, but it will help futureproof the operating system for years to come.
Crazy to think, but all of the OS X updates used the same system the company has relied on since the early days of the Mac. The big change here is the first meaningful update to Apple’s file system in around 30 years.
That’s due in part to the bonanza features in iOS 11 and the fact that macOS 10.13 is a pretty unsexy update, mostly focused on infrastructural changes. Apple’s other operating system has taken a bit of a backseat to its mobile counterpart in recent years, and High Sierra’s no exception. The latest version of macOS just went live on the Mac App Store as a free download.
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