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Apple Seeds Third OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan Beta to Developers
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They should fix the damn battery life...
This is with a freshly installed El Capitan (formatted this Sunday) on a MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2014.
9 to 10 hours in the same conditions with Yosemite.
This is with a freshly installed El Capitan (formatted this Sunday) on a MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2014.
9 to 10 hours in the same conditions with Yosemite.
Have you ever seen/used 1Password? Didn't think so. Or you'd never even think that Notes could be a substitute. Not even close. Reminds me of that TV show, "Kids Say the Darndest Things".
You are aware that you do not have to upgrade until you want to, right ?
They've been releasing an upgraded OS practically every year for the last 15 years.
10.0 beta in 2000
Cheetah in 2001
Puma in 2001
Jaguar in 2002
Panther in 2003
Tiger in 2005
Leopard in 2007
Snow Leopard in 2009
Lion in 2011
Mountain Lion in 2012
Mavericks in 2013
Yosemite in 2014
El Capitan in 2015
Hi readers, I plan to buy a new iMac 5k. Is it wise, reading all these profound problems with this new Apple El Capitan software, to purchase a iMac nowadays?
I wouldn't listen to half of the stuff on the forums, you will almost never read how many people do not have issues compared to the ones that do.
Just like one listed above where their battery life reads 3hrs at 100%, mine reads 15hrs at 100%
Can't wait. I've added Notes to my workflow dropping the bloated and annoying Everynote months ago, so the ability to sort notes and encrypt with password is great news. (Hopefully they will add more keyboard shortcuts for bullets, etc., and make it easier to indent/outdent on iOS soon)
I love the focus of Notes. Only needs a few more tweaks to be unstoppable.
I love the focus of Notes. Only needs a few more tweaks to be unstoppable.
Guess you are right. My iMac 21.5 (late 2014) has always done the job very well, no problems whatsoever. But, listening to the (perhaps) wrong stuff on the forums ;-), I will not 'upgrade' this iMac from Yosemite to El Capitan yet.
Do you think the newly sold iMacs wil have less risk of problems with El Capitan software because of recent iMac adjustments made by Apple for good/smooth interaction between this new software and the hardware?
Don't blame Apple for your own stupidity. Nobody told you to install this beta, even better, they warn you before installing not to do this on your work machine and be certain to have a back up. So, Apple should not be selling you any stuff anymore.
As Apple comes out with a new OS every year, preinstalled on every new Mac, would you guess that all these machine do not work as we are already half way to the next OSX?
- Get rid of root as Apple's effectively given 3rd party developers the finger
- Put in the option to change the green button's behaviour (full screen on a large desktop screen is completely redundant)
- Add option in keyboard commands to have cmd+x and cmd+v act as cut/paste for MOVING files in the Finder
- Fix the way attachments are handled in Mail (christ, a 600 billion dollar company should get this right the first time)
- Add option of folders on top in the Finder
- Put in the option to change the green button's behaviour (full screen on a large desktop screen is completely redundant)
- Add option in keyboard commands to have cmd+x and cmd+v act as cut/paste for MOVING files in the Finder
- Fix the way attachments are handled in Mail (christ, a 600 billion dollar company should get this right the first time)
- Add option of folders on top in the Finder
It's got to be El Cap. I'm getting beachballs on the following machines with El Cap 10.11.0 - 10.11.3:
2011 iMac (12 GB RAM, HD)
2011 MacBook Air (4 GB RAM, SSD)
2012 MacBook Pro (8 GB RAM, SSD)
2013 Mac Pro (8 core, 64 GB RAM, SSD)
2015 iMac (8 GB RAM, SSD)
None of these machines had a problem of frequent beachballs under Yosemite (the 2015 iMac came with El Cap).
In my experience, a fresh and clean install of OS X and a speedy SSD greatly reduced beachballs.
I never really experience any other problems unless I'm running OS X betas, which I usually am just because I like finding and troubleshooting problems.
I started installing SSD's in my iMacs in 2009 and I've gone away from HDD's ever since except for large external storage.
I have 27 Mac Mini's at work and 4 of them still have spinning disks in them and with that being said you can probably guess which one's I get complaints on ever so often.
I will also run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility or First Aid on the newer versions of OS X every so often, usually at least twice a month. I sometimes come across corrupt volumes or files and this usually fixes them and any issues that may have come up because of them.
Though my iMac HDD works well, I have the same thoughts about the advantage of SSD over HDD and fusion-drive. Therefore the iMac 5k configuration (home-use, internet, mail, movies) I plan to purchase will have SSD-only (CPU 3.2GHz, GPU R9 M390/2GB, SSD 512GB, RAM 24GB).
Looks like you have lot off experience on Mac's! Will the application of SSD-only decrease the computer/system-temperature, less fan-noise and chance of overheating, compared to a HDD-only or fusion-drive system? I am asking because there seem to have been some thermal issues with the 5k iMacs.
Looks like you have lot off experience on Mac's! Will the application of SSD-only decrease the computer/system-temperature, less fan-noise and chance of overheating, compared to a HDD-only or fusion-drive system? I am asking because there seem to have been some thermal issues with the 5k iMacs.
Yes, have the same issues with my Mac mini 2012 i7 with 16 gigs of ram, 512 SSD and 4 cores? The 4000 graphic card "should" be ok to handle overall, but OS X Yosemite works faster and better?
OS X EL Capitan is "suppose" to be the Snow Leopard of OS X Yosemite, but so far....
Windows Vista...?
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Have this problem too..
In System Preferences there is an option for getting the old 'fit the size to content' behaviour by double clicking the window toolbar/titlebar.
For moving (MOVING) files in the Finder you press cmd+c and cmd+alt+v. That has been since years.
I didn't investigate the others your 'issues' but I can think for sure you are wrong the same way.
Safari web inspector has a couple of new reshuffles (unwelcome), as well as explicit pseudo-elements like ::after and ::before in the elements (very welcome).
So? It did fine with Yosemite, so I'd expect El Capitan to be the same or better. El Cap certainly runs better on my MacBook Pro than Yosemite did, so why not have the graphics be more efficient? Also, do you realize that MacBook Airs contain weak graphics cards? I've noticed El Cap animations lag quite a bit on them - especially while running on battery.
They should fix the damn battery life...
This is with a freshly installed El Capitan (formatted this Sunday) on a MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2014.
9 to 10 hours in the same conditions with Yosemite.
What are those apps in the menu bar?
I haven't noticed any changes in battery life of significance when going from Yosemite to El Capitan. It'd be worthwhile to do some testing and perhaps not reload everything right away. Perhaps one of the various third party applications you're using is using more CPU time than before, or could be forcing the discrete GPU to stay on, if you have one of those in your computer.
You do realize every major operating system does this right? I can't think of one that doesn't have some type of major update at least once a year.