So, this went into my 15" MBP last night…
Replaced the 5400rpm original HD.
Much, much faster now.
Replaced the 5400rpm original HD.
Much, much faster now.
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A1260 gets SSD
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It's clocking average temps around 120º to 140º F. That's about a 10º average drop since I rolled back to Yosemite.
Congrats - once you go SSD there's just no going back.
But I gotta ask... why Yosemite?
I rebooted at one point and the Mac began to shut down. Could not get it to fully boot without shutting down. I suspect I installed something that did not agree with it.Congrats - once you go SSD there's just no going back.
While, El Capitan worked well on it, it also produced a lot of heat (which I've been warned about multiple times). So I thought, if I install Yosemite maybe there's a chance that the Mac will produce less heat as the OS should be a bit less complex than El Capitan. That assumption was correct as the Mac is indeed much cooler and seems to handle things much better.
But really, it's my familiarity with Yosemite. It was the last version of OS X I was using in my old job and I'm comfortable with it. I don't generally care for later versions of OS X and I still have issues with Yosemite, but I find it better than Mavericks.
I'm with you on that.
For me, Mavericks was an absolute disaster on my A1286 with endless kernel panics and other problems that made the computer unusable for serious work because at any moment it would lock up or reboot. Even reinstalling the OS from scratch made no difference. With El Capitan on the same machine, there has been no such problems.
Ha, that's pretty "cool". - Here on Mojave temperatures are close to desert environment (up to 180°F / 82°C)
(and iLapStand or Just Mobile Lazy Couch are mandatory)
I fear that my dear MBP4,1s get toasted one after the other and I'm gonna end up going for the proper equipment to swap GPUs. (until then I'm lucky to have that 17" green-dot refurbished MBP4,1 left as my last stand)
MojavePatch has some glitches, but I'm pretty happy to have a last common OSX for all my "new" devices (like Leopard as the last resort for PPC). I especially like the dark themes.
But it has to be feared,that the possee of iOS mobile-device-upgrades will hunt down the old hardware very soon...
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My biggest issue with Mavericks was the SMB bug. It meant that I couldn't hold a network connection for longer than 24 hours without the OS causing InDesign to drop the connection. Only a restart, or being forced to use SMB2 solved the problem.
Yosemite fixed that.
Yes. It's a SMB3 bug that existed from Lion to Mavericks.
You can force a SMB2 connection by using CIFS://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (where X is the IP address of the share/server you are connecting to) instead of SMB://… when you CMD+K (Connect to Server).
SMB2 is of course SLOWER, but stable. Part of the problem is that for decades Apple refused to adhere to the common SMB standard and made up their own. It wasn't until Yosemite that they gave up and adopted the common standard. Which is why it's fixed in Yosemite.
Effectively that killed DAVE and AdmitMac.