People should install it on a USB hard drive, and never use it as a replacement for their stable OS, unless they do very little with their Mac.
Hi all:
My i7 iMac is back up and running. I did a fresh install of 10.9 after copying the contents of the bootable SSD over to the OE 1.0TB hard drive and wiping the SSD clean.
The new install is working well. I've noted a few broken pieces of software--ClamXAv being one of them (Error #134, whatever that is)--but nothing overly glaring at this point. I can't comment on overall system resource use (compared to OS X 10.8.x) as iStat 4.x that ran under 10.8.x appears to be incompatible with 10.9.
I do appreciate the many of you who attempted to help despite my mistake.
Regards,
Rob
I'm a med student who only uses safari and mail and calendar really. Maybe word and iphoto here and there. Photoshop if I'm feeling fancy. I made the leap. I guess that's considered little enough?
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I installed istat menu on 10.9 and it runs fine. Preferences window sometimes crashes but that's it.
Ah, yes. More sarcasm. I already stated three times in my original post that I was a fool and politely asked for respondents to refrain from piling it on further. Apparently, that was lost on you.
Reiterating what everyone's already confirmed, I'm running OS X 10.9 DP1 as smoothly as 10.8.2 ran; if not I dare say better.
Scrolling is like a knife through butter, HandBreak is so fast I can't make a cocktail quick enough to put down when it's finished and developing seems easier with some new SDK's and the latest Xcode.
I'm using it on my production rMBP 15" (2012) - taking precautions such as data backup, Time Machine backup and also a HDD clone just incase.
If you want to get DP1 because you're like me and you want to get into anything new ASAP, then take precautions - and stick to genuine developer accounts!!
Happy dev'ing![]()
The medical definition for this behavior is!?I'm a med student who only uses safari and mail and calendar really. Maybe word and iphoto here and there. Photoshop if I'm feeling fancy. I made the leap. I guess that's considered little enough?
Not if you select the entire device (HDD/SSD) in Disk Utility. In that case, DU or Apples asr copies & and compresses (if you selected this option) blocks from device and stores them, including a checksum, in a .dmg file. In that case your .dmg file contains the contents of the entire SSD/HDD, including the recovery partition. You just need one large external HDD/SSD for the second bootable OS and the space for the big .dmg-file.AFAIK, many developers choose to run an image backup of their system prior to installing a beta OS, that way they can easily downgrade. I suspect the recovery partition that is now created in OSX only complicates things.
Are you from the future?I am on a brand-new 2013 iMac with i7 processor and 16GB ram.
I am on a brand-new 2013 iMac with i7 processor and 16GB ram.
I had several issues with 10.9 after doing an upgrade from 10.8... I thought that they were issues with 10.9 and I was ready to go back to mountain lion almost immediately.
However, I was stubborn and still wanted to try 10.9 so I created a usb install for 10.9 and did a clean install.
Most of the issues I noticed have gone away with the clean install.
It is definitely not "production ready", though.. which is to be expected due to the fact that it is an early build still in development.
Loving the improvements, though.
You clearly don't use your Mac for a lot, though if you would want to write a paper or a thesis, you shouldn't install any beta software. It's strange how even many people who are interested in IT don't really use a lot of the functionality their machine offers; most stuff happens online, so it doesn't matter as much which computer you use. If you don't play games very often, most computers of today are actually a bit overpowered.I'm a med student who only uses safari and mail and calendar really. Maybe word and iphoto here and there. Photoshop if I'm feeling fancy. I made the leap. I guess that's considered little enough?
AFAIK, many developers choose to run an image backup of their system prior to installing a beta OS, that way they can easily downgrade. I suspect the recovery partition that is now created in OSX only complicates things.
I feel your pain OP, and I'll not say anything other then the beta program is designed to shake out bugs and give developers time to review the changes in the OS to do their fit gap analysis and update their apps.
~Mike