Did you even read what I wrote? my old iMac has the same card yet doesn't exhibit such behaviour hence I'm curious to know why he is experiencing it yet I am not.
Wow didnt realize Mac pro's and imacs have identical hardware...
Did you even read what I wrote? my old iMac has the same card yet doesn't exhibit such behaviour hence I'm curious to know why he is experiencing it yet I am not.
Wow didnt realize Mac pro's and imacs have identical hardware...
Nope... It is still slow at random...
The quickest shut down so far after the update is still slower than Snow Leopard...
I keep feeling OS X Mavericks will be a free upgrade.
Not yet. They will this fall though.
You can use gfxCardStatus under Mountain Lion (And Mavericks?). Make sure you quit Keynote before you switch the GPU.Can anyone with retina MacBook Pro confirm that in Mavericks, Keynote doesn't require the discrete GPU? It's kind of strange that Keynote requires dGPU and due to this battery doesn't last long and my rMBP gets hot..
You can use gfxCardStatus under Mountain Lion (And Mavericks?). Make sure you quit Keynote before you switch the GPU.
Apple may have a surprise early release. I think they should.
Do you think they might call it Maverix or MaveriX ? ... I think they should.
Has anyone seen any dramatic improvements in battery life with Mavericks on a 2011 MBA?
Wow didnt realize Mac pro's and imacs have identical hardware...
I never said that - so stop lying. I stated they had the same video card but I appear to be wrong given that the iMac I had used a "Radeon HD 2600 PRO" where as the Mac Pro in question has a "Radeon HD 2600 XT" - the fact that my old iMac has a less powerful GPU yet not exhibiting the same issues tells me there is something more to it besides so-called 'old hardware slowing down'.
That's the problem. It's just slowing down and acting up. Just like any component of an older machine.
I'm at 82% with 320 cycles, so that's fantastic news. I'll probably be upgrading to a 13in rMBP when Haswell lands, but I was thinking of giving my 2011 13in MBA to my girlfriend (or, maybe selling it)... so good battery life would definitely be a plus.I have. 13" 2011 base unit with a quickly degrading battery, around 84% at 300 cycles, I went from about 4 hours max to close to 7 on Mavericks. Of course it borked my email, so I'm not using it as my main unit.
Old, but ubiquitous. That's the point. Support what is out there in reality, when you claim to support that era system. Simple.It's still a beta and that's one old graphics card.
I'm at 82% with 320 cycles, so that's fantastic news. I'll probably be upgrading to a 13in rMBP when Haswell lands, but I was thinking of giving my 2011 13in MBA to my girlfriend (or, maybe selling it)... so good battery life would definitely be a plus.
Do you recommend updating now or waiting for official release? I'm pretty eager to try it out, but from what I've read, it's definitely still beta status. Do you have you to reinstall with each new preview release, or can it just be updated?
Do you have you to reinstall with each new preview release, or can it just be updated?