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Is it ok to upgrade to Mavericks now?
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With what hardware? I have upgraded my 2009 MBP to OS X 10.9 Mavericks and it was a very bumpy ride with daily or hourly kernel panics. OS X 10.10 Yosemite was even more stable than that, but a bit slower in general.
Now my 2009 MBP runs OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion quite fine.
Now my 2009 MBP runs OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion quite fine.
I'm running it on a 15" 2010 MacBook Pro and I needed to get the logic board replaced after upgrading. 10.9 put extra stress on my GPU causing it to fail (GPU panics). It's a known issue with the MBP (stressing the GPU will eventually cause it to fail) so keep that in mind if you do decide to upgrade to 10.9 (it may cause problems or it may not). Do a search on 10.9 and GPU panics if you want more information.
Note - Some people also reported upgrading to 10.8 also caused the GPU panics.
Note - Some people also reported upgrading to 10.8 also caused the GPU panics.
Why you need to upgrade? there is nothing that will improve anything with an upgrade. Actually the things they messed up with Mavericks they fixed with the new system.
A company like Apple needs to release new OS from time to time, they have to, so basically they just move things around because there is nothing to improve any more except one thing here and there or some bugs.
But when Apple says "the new OS blah, blah, blah..." is just 1000% crap! is a lie! there is nothing new, they just moved things and changed the wall paper. Usually they made things worst by trying to "innovate".
Trust me, is 100% retarded but there are corporate reasons why they have to be retarded. Is like light bulbs, they could work for ever but they have a short live to produce new ones.
If your OS works, do not touch it. I have several Mac and I upgraded to Mavericks to the ones I have for that.... to experiment. I saw no improvements and the rest of the machines are fine as they are. I am using Snow Leopard in most of them and Lion.
They told you not to run Mavericks on that?
Mavericks has had four updates and has been around long enough that it will even be superseded in a few months. There are always outliers, but all in all, I don't think most people have had "issues" or "problems" related strictly to the OS. It runs spectacularly on my MBP (which is much older than yours) and on a 2013 MBA in the house as well.
There weren't a whole lot of sensational improvements in Mavericks, but to say it is risky or problematic to upgrade at this point is kinda silly.
