16th September, 2026: A Night at the Opera.
OK: that’s macOS 27 Golden Gate installed.
Yes: I know I was planning to leave it for a couple of days: to get past the inevitable slow download speeds you get when a major update’s released.
But … ?
I had an afternoon, free!
There’s pros and cons to the OS, I think.
Visually, it’s gorgeous: window corners are far more consistant, the Liquid Glass language is nice, and the traffic light buttons have a nice, Aqua-style sheen.
On the downside?
On the downside, the system voice settings seem inconsistent, compared to earlier versions of the OS.
I’ve got one voice doing most of them: and one or two others doing the rest.
And can’t figure out how to change them.
There’s also space.
I had some seven hundred and sixty gigabytes of space left on my machine’s main hard drive: under Tahoe.
But now have some six hundred and eighty (~680) gigabytes left.
I’m assuming that space is chewed up by the large language model used by SiriAI.
I’m aware of a couple of things.
First?
I’m not sure what’s going on with the voices: but yes, I have filled out another entry on Apple’s feedback page!
Second?
The Golden Gate update is very big.
It’s going to give those of us with smaller internal drives a headache.
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