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First Week OS X Yosemite Adoption Rates Slightly Outpacing Mavericks

iapplelove said:
What happened to the air? Between my 6 plus and Mac my air has the least amount of bugs.
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IOS 8 slowed it down severely, so much it was almost unusable, my iPad 2 was much faster on 7 so I used that for a while.
When IOS 8.1 arrived I updated through iTunes and it is running better now, except for Safari which still is a bit buggy, with pages not loading quite frequently, I actually have to tap on the screen to wake it up to download, weird.
It's still not as fast as 7, but it is now bearable. I went out to buy the Air 2 but didn't like it at all, hopefully another update might fix Safari on this.

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dannyyankou said:
I doubt the percentages would be much different if it were 1 billon macs and 50 million PCs
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I think it's more like 1.5 billion PCs.

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V.K. said:
I doubt this is it. Are there really many people who like the Yosemite visual changes?

I don't like it, but I can put up with it, I run Parallels and Bootcamp, with Windows 8.1 and Windows TP AND even Chrome.
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Comparing OS X to Windows adoption is like comparing apples to badgers. Windows costs money and effort. OS X makes you close all the apps you have open and costs no money.

Honestly, what kept me from adopting day one...I had too many safari tabs open. That is the world we live in now,
 
JosephAW said:
As with 10.8, 10.9, & 10.10, my mac pro is not compatible but still very capable. Staying with 10.6
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Do some investigating...folks have Mountain Lion and Mavericks running on the Mac Pro 1,1....it takes a little bit of effort, but a folks have come up with modifications that allow installs and updates of 10.8 & 10.9.

I believe they're wrestling with Yosemite at this point (wasn't a slam dunk with the same modes that got 10.8 and 10.9 working.
 
I'm in the pro Yosemite camp. Much better on my mid 2011 iMac than Mavericks. Been smooth since public beta. Only hiccup is I still have Feedback Assistant on my public release for some reason....but generally, yes, I like what they did with the place.
 
Love it...

I've got it on my mid 2011 iMac. It's smooth. No issues that I can see. Safari is faster than chrome now. Much faster than Safari on Mavericks.

New mid level mac mini arrived today for my media center. Yosemite running smooth on that with 2 cores. BTW.. the iris graphics card is fast....
 
Now that Apple has made OS X to look like iOS 8, it's now time for Apple to allow themed skins and sounds like OS 9 had back in its heyday.

That way we could select a Yosemite theme, Mavericks theme, Mountain lion theme, Snow Leopard theme, or even a OS 9 theme or Windows themes.
 
Battery Drain

I like Yosemite but i can't say i like it better than Mavericks. My Macbook Pro is from late 2013 and i have always had great battery life up until i installed Yosemite. Now my mac is draining the battery way too fast. After doing a quick search this is a known issue and i hope Apple can get if fixed soon with an update
 
V.K. said:
I doubt this is it. Are there really many people who like the Yosemite visual changes?
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for the most part, yeah, i like the changes.. i like the font too.

i think the color picker looks pretty bad though :confused:

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FrizzleFryBen said:
OS X makes you close all the apps you have open and costs no money.
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well, it will close them for you if you push OK ;)
 
mrbyu said:
I guess it's best to have an SSD for this update, too. Ever since I bought my MBA in 2011, I'm always hearing people with Macs that still use hard drives complaining about almost every major version of OS X that it made their machines slower. Meanwhile, I never really experienced any noticeable difference in performance in the last 3 years (and I only have 4 gigs of ram). Guys who use older machines: swap that old HDD with an SSD and you should be fine with Yosemite. I don't think RAM is anywhere near as important as having a solid state drive.
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I've noticed the same thing. The complaints of slowness are inevitably from those that have spinning storage.
 
big difference between paid upgrade and free upgrade :p

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flat five said:
for the most part, yeah, i like the changes.. i like the font too.

i think the color picker looks pretty bad though :confused:

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well, it will close them for you if you push OK ;)
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ahaha I have always thought what is apple thinking going with a few crayons. Such a waste of coding lol
 
goobot said:
I would install it but I'm unsure if it will affect performance on my 08 unibody MacBook.
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I've personally found it to increase the performance and speed on my 08 Mac Pro. I think this is the best version of OS X ever.
 
miles clearly will vary - mine is nearly flawless - but has anyone noticed pixels streaks running down the finder window? lots of thin gray bars from window top to window bottom where the file list would be.. usually when selecting devices or drives from the sidebar, only for a second while the beach ball spins for 1-2 sec. maybe 1-2x day
 
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V.K. said:
I replaced most system icons and put some color in the sidebar but there are some things like overly flat UI that can not be easily replaced. They really went too far with this flat design IMO.
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really? i felt the flatter leaning was just that - a new leaning. not everything is a solid/outlined shape. i feel like they kept yosemite truer to the 'feline' series of OS X, starting with cheetah's transparency choices. it's way better than mavericks - way less geriatric and not too flat at all, imo. do people really know what this word means in the design word? i mean the UI combines skeuo/flat worlds nicely. it's not too anything, literally.

plus, all the hiccups when running different resolutions have nearly been eradicated +1

edit: i noticed that the new close/minimize/expand buttons have a big visual impact on the OS. if you change them to grayscale (or graphite maybe?) it's a lot better, for me at least.
 
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dannyyankou said:
Eh, weak argument. Nearly half a billion iPhones have been sold and more than half of all iPhones are running the latest OS.

And apple's software updates are easy and free, unlike windows.
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No. THAT is what I call a weak argument.
Apple quite quickly stop signing older OS versions with the iPhone meaning you can’t go back even if you wanted to. Those figures mean nothing and you are reaching.
It’s like saying leaded petrol is unpopular because people care about the environment. They might do but you can’t bloody buy it anywhere either.

Microsoft could quite easily at their next show tout, (hold on while I do some maths);
18 million PCs are running Windows 8 or later. That compares to only 6 million Macs running Yosemite.

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Sasparilla said:
Do some investigating...folks have Mountain Lion and Mavericks running on the Mac Pro 1,1....it takes a little bit of effort, but a folks have come up with modifications that allow installs and updates of 10.8 & 10.9.

I believe they're wrestling with Yosemite at this point (wasn't a slam dunk with the same modes that got 10.8 and 10.9 working.
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I concur. It’s not even difficult. In fact if you have access to a friend with a supported Mac I’d even call it easy.
 
H2SO4 said:
d on while I do some maths);
18 million PCs are running Windows 8 or later. That compares to only 6 million Macs running Yosemite.
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And that would still be a much less important data than actual percentages.

Fact: Apple users adoption of the latest OS is higher than of Windows.

And Apple is not forcing anyone to upgrade. If anything, Apple stops supporting old hardware faster than Microsoft does, so the percentage of macs out there actually supporting Yosemite would be even less than the number of PC's supporting Windows 8.1. Regardless of that, adoption is higher.
 
I'm nit surprised. Free is effective. Throw a flashy new design and top billing in the App Store and the masses will come running.

Soon I think the new OSes will act as regular updates and auto download to your system.
 
iBug2 said:
And that would still be a much less important data than actual percentages.

Fact: Apple users adoption of the latest OS is higher than of Windows.

And Apple is not forcing anyone to upgrade. If anything, Apple stops supporting old hardware faster than Microsoft does, so the percentage of macs out there actually supporting Yosemite would be even less than the number of PC's supporting Windows 8.1. Regardless of that, adoption is higher.
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No it isn’t. How many people are running Win 8, now how many people are running 10.10? You are playing with semantics.
They have presented the facts in a way that suits them, not in absolute terms. If and when the tables turn, I’m sure the way they present it will too.
I prefer OS X that’s why I’m here but I can see that more people have adopted the latest Win OS than Mac OS. It helps Apple to use the % figure due to the small install base, just as it helps M$ to use real figures for their presentations. I’m not sure they harp on about it aaaaaallll the dammmnnned time like TC does though.

Look, (and this is iOS), and I can’t see why this is so hard to grasp, if they remove your downgrade path it helps the upgrade figures.
 
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