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Apple Releases OS X 10.11 El Capitan With Improved Spotlight Search, Enhanced Performance, and Revamped Apps
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It is my understanding that 10.8 Mountain Lion is still supported with security updates but for 10.7 Lion support has ended. Support for 10.8 Mountain Lion will more than likely end around the time of the release of OS X 10.12
10.6 Snow Leopard has been unsupported for some time now but continues to run great on older Macs. I have a Late-2006 Black Intel Core Duo MacBook running Snow Leopard which still performs well. The advantage of Snow Leopard is although Apple no longer support it many programmes downloadable from the net are still compatible with Snow Leopard. For example the well outdated Safari 5 is the default browser but that can easily be replaced with Firefox 41 and Snow Leopard is still compatible with the latest Flash Player (currently v.19).
Yes you are, because the Metal graphics API requires a Mac introduced in 2012 or later.
So far, so good, on the one machine which I've been using since the update. Then again I haven't really challenged it to do anything new or different and have not yet explored some of the new features, especially since I doubt that I'll be using some of them anyway. Using the machine as I had done in the past is working just fine, everything moving along smoothly, including the Mail app, and I'm happy about this.
That's close to what mine said but I stopped and started it a few times and it dropped to 30 minutes...
Gary
EC running smooth. Seems Safari is faster on opening websites. But, too soon to know for sure. Why after updating to EC I now have an Update showing from App Store for iPhoto from March 2015.
Also, had to restart my macbook to remove camera icon in Menu Bar at top that was there instead of Dropbox icon. It was saying it was uploading photos but not actually doing that.
Also, had to restart my macbook to remove camera icon in Menu Bar at top that was there instead of Dropbox icon. It was saying it was uploading photos but not actually doing that.
When I connected to my cable modem, the time hopped all over the place.. "calculating" 7hrs, 10hrs, 12hrs!! Aww hell naw. So I connected to my time capsule.. 1hr, 33min .. win!!
You are not alone. El Capitan is like silk compared to Yosemite and has been from Public Beta 6. There is no doubt that El Capitan is the best release since 10.6 Snow Leopard. Perhaps we should call El Capitan 'Snow Yosemite' !
Could be. My work network (university setting) doesn't really slow anything down - I could stream HD video all day while downloading hundreds of GBs of files (I send files up to 500 GB [research related] over the network with regularity) and no one would care - but there was something going on affecting my connections to Apple's servers via ethernet and WiFi.
What have they done to Disk Utility! New version designed for "lowest common denominator" audience! Quite how you set up a Raid system now is not obvious...
My MBP 2010 came with Snow Leopard preinstalled. So far I updated to Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan. Each on the first day of Golden Master availability. I never made a clean install of OS X. Never had a reason to. Why do you want to lose all your data? When I will buy a new MacBook in a few years, I plan to restore my system with all it's files and settings from backup.
Updated my 2014 13' MBA. So far, no problems.
However, how can I get rid of the "Previous System folder"? -- I move it to the Trash, says it is in use. I googled and read that disabling System Integrity Protection was the culprit -- but nothing. It's still goes to the Trash, but can't be emptied as some of the files (sleepimage, vm, private/var) are in use.
Any suggestions on how to remove this folder and thus, save GB of SSD space would be appreciated.
*Mark.
However, how can I get rid of the "Previous System folder"? -- I move it to the Trash, says it is in use. I googled and read that disabling System Integrity Protection was the culprit -- but nothing. It's still goes to the Trash, but can't be emptied as some of the files (sleepimage, vm, private/var) are in use.
Any suggestions on how to remove this folder and thus, save GB of SSD space would be appreciated.
*Mark.
Just got home and at first it said 6 hours, but after pausing and restarting a few times it went down to 20 minutes.
Snow Leopard seriously sucked when it was released. I wish people would stop forgetting that. It wasn't even decent until 10.6.3. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was the gold standard of OS X. It was perfect out of the box without any bug fixes. Nothing has touched it in stability and performance since EL Capitan.
That's the new file system protection thing in action. System folders, and Apple application folders are now protected.
You can turn it off, delete things you want to, and turn it back on again by following the instructions at https://developer.apple.com/library...ion/ConfiguringSystemIntegrityProtection.html
I have cable broadband where I am and usually get 100MB/s down, but I am getting the message that it will take 6 days and 23 hours to download!!!
Im having that same problem with downloads from mac app store. Hoping for Apple to release the download direct link in the developers download page... Only there I could max out my internet's speed... I have no idea why Mac App Store has been giving very slow speed lately...
Damn... I'm on CS5 Apps because I'm too cheap to update, since they have all the features I need. I know they require some kind of ancient Java version, but was hoping they'd escape harm. Because gods know Adobe won't fix them nowadays.
I just updated last month to Yosemite... and only did so because FCPX "needed" Yosemite
I'll think i'll wait a few months...
I'll think i'll wait a few months...