Sacramento here...2 hours from start to finish. At this point, everything working well, mail included.
2012 Mac Mini Quad, upgrading from Yosemite.
2012 Mac Mini Quad, upgrading from Yosemite.
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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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My system is ready and willing with ram, disk and 64 bit processors and video card but every time I try to install it it says my system is not supported.
It would probably take Apple less than a week for devs to fix the problem they created and they'd have even a larger install base of OSX EC and iOS 9.
It would probably take Apple less than a week for devs to fix the problem they created and they'd have even a larger install base of OSX EC and iOS 9.
That's a great way to put it! Yosemite was terrible. It lagged, swiping between spaces often froze for me, it was slow at times, and I had boot errors in 10.10.3 AND 10.10.4. I know that wasn't everyone's experience, but mine was awful.
El Capitan is noticeably smoother. No, it's not 60FPS all the time, but I was able to enter Mission Control with 13 windows fluidly. It boots faster than Yosemite and I'm no longer getting weird behavior when I boot in clamshell mode attached to two external monitors (Yosemite could never figure out which monitor to boot to and they'd both just flash).
I also really appreciate the subtle UI tweaks. I'm partially colorblind and Apple's stark flat white buttons on a light gray background with thin font just sucked. The new font is bolder, grays seem to be darker (to me), and the buttons have a slight budge with some drop shadow. It's a small change, but makes a world of difference.
Is anyone else having issues with text expansion/replacement on El Capitan? It didn't work for me on the GM version, and it doesn't work for me on today's update. I can still configure text replacements in the Keyboard settings, but none of them appear to actually work.
OK - Outlook 2016 fixed - I reinstalled the latest Outlook 2016 image manually, not relying on AutoUpdate - per the details at this posting - http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-capitan/9a2e97a8-25f4-4ab7-842b-ca132d147d1f
I had to set up a new empty profile and import the 2011 to 2016 - didn't take too long. Seems to be working OK now.
Not retried 2011 since.
I've noticed a slow down on my iPhone 6 and iPad 3 with iOS 9 and 9.0.1/2.
However, I can say that on my 2013 15" rMBP with 750M, El Capitan is a noticeable improvement. Not only in fluidity, but in stability. Swiping between spaces no longer freezes, the UI has been slightly tweaked, start times are faster, and I'm getting a more seamless experiences when switching between displays.
This is already an issue, see the post here.
There was a pretty deep vulnerability patched in 10.10.3/4 that was not fixed in Mavericks because of the "complexity of the fix." This was one push for me to update to Yosemite in the first place. And where there's one, there could be more. The only way to be sure that you have all of the available patches is to be on the latest OS. As far as I know, Apple makes no written statement about past OS support and is not supplied by law since they make the latest OS available to older hardware, so any patch you do get should be (unfortunately) viewed as Apple throwing you a bone.
All is well on mine, but it's time for the dead Microsoft Onedrive again. Crashes as soon as opened. Anybody else seeing that? Fix?
I gave up on their Mac client, it's just horrible. I only use OD for offsite storage now via a web browser and use Dropbox as my go-to. It's a shame because I'd love to go full in with OD since I have a TB of space. It worked almost flawlessly for the 8 months I gave it, but it seems to break with OS updates, it can crash without you realizing it, it doesn't support OS X meta data, and there are file name restriction. It's still installed so I see when it's updated and as soon as it gets more than 3.5 stars on the MAS, I'll give it another go.
So, 2015 Indesign, Illustrator and p/shop are humming smoothly? That's really my one concern upgrading until I get confirmation from someone. Thanks in advance.
Exact same for me. My office got into Office365 so using their free terabyte was very welcome to keep work stuff out of my personal Dropbox and vice versa. Might have to give the web access a go until the beta is done. I've loved what they've done with One Note, and they update that very frequently. Hope OD catches up.
My excitement doubles when today I received an MBP 15" full specs from work as a replacement for my existing one.
I immediately did a full wipe and reinstall... but OMG!!! It's installing Yosemite. I'm very sad! I'd rather have El Capitan installed fresh than having Yosemite with the update on top.... but I don't think I have any other choice. Tomorrow afternoon I'm expected to do work on this system already
Create a USB installer for El Capitan (instructions are all over the place online), then boot from the USB stick, use its disk utility to wipe your drive and install... itll be nice and fresh.
I had hoped there would be something at least, from Apple if no one else, in the way of Photos Extensions by the time El Cap was released... :-(
Sleep is overrated anyway!My excitement doubles when today I received an MBP 15" full specs from work as a replacement for my existing one.
I immediately did a full wipe and reinstall... but OMG!!! It's installing Yosemite. I'm very sad! I'd rather have El Capitan installed fresh than having Yosemite with the update on top.... but I don't think I have any other choice. Tomorrow afternoon I'm expected to do work on this system already
I missed that one, thanks for the heads up. I know Apple has no requirement to supply updates, but they've been on a pretty regular schedule for a bit now so I was curious since that's now changed. But apparently it's time to accept my OS X's security will be just as much **** as my iOS 6 security. Just a bit sooner than expected. Oh well.
OS X El Capitan looks like OS X Yosemite, but it includes a new systemwide font, San Francisco, ...
The very first Macintosh OS, System 1.0 (maybe 1.1?) shipped on the Mac 128K in 1984, had a San Francisco font. (It's on my Mac 512K which also runs system 1.1 and boots in 3 seconds from a floppy.) It was a "ransom note" font, with each character in a different style. You have to remember that Mac was the very first time you could specify a font for your text. So people got a bit carried away. Even the Apple developers.
I was really amused to see San Francisco return as a system font in 2015. (Font sample from wikipedia).
Works ok, no problems. Safari is definitely speedier. Mail is really fast. iPhoto is still there and syncs with my iPhone 6 Plus no problem (I thought iPhoto was going to be removed, I guess it has just been made officially unsupported).
But some bizarreness...before (with the last Public Beta) I had to disable rootless (SIP) to get TotalFinder, TotalSpaces, and cdock to work (disabling rootless didn't cause any problems). I just updated to the official public release of El Capitan, and TotalFinder, TotalSpaces, and cdock are all working fine. Even after disabling rootless before TotalFinder didn't display correctly, and I had to turn it off. Even EasySIMBL and cosytabs are working with no issues. Missing e and XKit (the Safari extensions for Tumblr) are broken, however.
Weird.
But some bizarreness...before (with the last Public Beta) I had to disable rootless (SIP) to get TotalFinder, TotalSpaces, and cdock to work (disabling rootless didn't cause any problems). I just updated to the official public release of El Capitan, and TotalFinder, TotalSpaces, and cdock are all working fine. Even after disabling rootless before TotalFinder didn't display correctly, and I had to turn it off. Even EasySIMBL and cosytabs are working with no issues. Missing e and XKit (the Safari extensions for Tumblr) are broken, however.
Weird.
Anyone having the Kernel_task High CPU use return after upgrading to EC? EC won't let you move the .plist file for your model, that some says fixes the problem. I now have to have a fan on my MacBook Pro 15" early 2011 to get it to run smoothly.
I hear you from QLD, I was getting 6 days, i cancelled it and trying it now and I'm getting about 3 hours to download it, probably the best I'm gonna get.
Try setting your DNS to 8.8.8.8, I did and after a few minutes it was downloaded, before it took an hour to download 50Mb
****! All my precious text shortcuts are GONE! Thanks, Apple, for spending me two hours of additional work.