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macOS Golden Gate beta review: it’s nothing without Siri AI

Thank goodness for Siri AI, because if the only updates with macOS Golden Gate were the other ones shown at WWDC, this would be the weakest release in history.

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Apple’s macOS Golden Gate really only brings one new feature to the Mac, but it’s the mostly superb Siri AI.

As it is, the new macOS Golden Gate is a significant and even dramatic update, but solely because of how useful Siri AI is. True, there is more to the update than Apple said, but all it mentioned was a Liquid Glass refinement, improved curves on windows, and a reworking of the sidebar.

If that sounds like only an incredibly little difference from macOS Tahoe, it’s actually even smaller than you think. That Liquid Glass refinement is a slider to let users control how translucent it is, but it works across such a narrow range that it’s not worth bothering with.

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