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Hmm, don't know if anybody else has posted about this, but why is System Preferences icon layout such a mess - looks like row 2 doesn't have enough room for Startup Disk so its wrapped to a new line...?

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Does anybody update a MacPro (late 2013), AMD FirePro D300 and could you tell me if it slows down the machine?

Last week I had to go back with my iPad mini 2 to iOS 9 after a rather painful slow interface and I would hate to do that on my Mac.

Thank you!

I have it with D700's. No difference.

The entire OS is basically identical except for some minor things (I don't use Siri and it's even more useless on a desktop).
 
I don't get it why people bother to do a clean install, I've been using OS X since 10.0 b and never reinstalled, always installed the new OS over the existing OS, had some bugs but they were always fixed, by myself or an update.

Point is, no need to do a clean install, it's not windows.


While it may not be technically necessary, it will give you a baseline starting point for troubleshooting purposes when testing applications.

If you are report bugs to Apple or a vendor, they are more likely to look into something if they can recreate it. If you say: "Clean install, ran all updates, installed application X, updated with Y patch, issue Z happens if I follow these next steps", they should be able to recreate the exact conditions.

If however you start with a system that has been upgraded over and over with 2 dozen apps installed, they certainly won't be able to do so.
 
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Same here :confused:

Yeah - I thought it was just like that in the beta versions, and that it would be fixed for release, but sadly not... btw, I'm using it on an old white MacBook (late 2009) if that makes any difference - with an SSD and it runs great :)
 
Expect issues using external high resolution monitors via the HDMI port. My Asus PB278 connected via HDMI to a late 2013 15-inch MacBook Pro comes up in 1080p with a maximum available resolution of 1600x1200 in the scaled displays (instead of the typical 2560x1440). There seems to be a lot of us with a variety of machines with different monitors experiencing this one. There are multiple threads about this in the developer forum related to the GM and it seems to still hold through in the build:

Another major release, another monitor related screwup. Don't know WTF is Apple internal testing is up to, but apparently it doesn't include external displays.

No surprise here. I use Apple 30" Cinema displays on my 2013 MP and half the time they won't show anything when I boot up.

Then I spend 15 minutes unplugging DP and USB cables until it finally works.
 
Oh why oh why do I need to upgrade the OS to get a new version of Photos?
Ridiculous.
 
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Yeah - I thought it was just like that in the beta versions, and that it would be fixed for release, but sadly not... btw, I'm using it on an old white MacBook (late 2009) if that makes any difference - with an SSD and it runs great :)


Mine is fine. Better even. (first time in my life :))
 
For me the best way to update to a major release is by doing a clean install.

I think I know what you mean … technically that's not an update; it's wiping everything before installing.

… AFS. …

Not quite, it's APFS.

… not available yet for non developers …

It should be,

… the new file system isn't available in this release? …

it should be,

… found no option to use APFS …

it should be there,

… not available until later …

it should be available now,

… Edit - apfs is command line only …

… (APFS) is not coming until 2017. …

Please join the discussion at Introducing Apple File System (APFS)
 
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