Arstechnica’s in depth Review of Mac OS 26 Tahoe

Andrew Cunningham’s in depth review of Tahoe is a must read, as it always is. I have not moved to Tahoe yet and won’t for a while because they removed FireWire support, and I have so much dv and hdv footage I need to capture first. And I hate Liquid Glass on my iPad and iPhone, so will hate it on Mac. y8

Thanks to 9to5 Mac for the fact that FireWire support is gone in macOS 26 Beta 1

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/19/firewire-400-800-macos-26-support/ It is a good thing I have been trying to capture all of my old DV tapes before they become unusable. And now I am fighting not just the tapes deteriorating (thankfully I have been able to buy 3 new DV cleaning tapes to keep my old Sony DSR 20 running) but the OS support of FireWire! Surprisingly I have been unable to pull the 24pa out of most of the DV footage which was shot that way, so I have had to use Twixtor to retime the footage from 29.97 to 23.976. I tried using After Effects to guess pulldown, but it always ended up wrong. And I am using Topaz Video AI to convert from SD to HD. This is all a very time intensive process, but if I don’t do it now the footage will just all be done. I have old footage from Mr T’s Bowl and Footage from Birds in Hollywood. The Mr T’s will hopefully end up in a documentary that Mile TV and I will be working on.