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Is Mavericks stable enough to use?

RTL Languages Support

Anyone installed the Mavricks beta while using right to left languages like hebrew or arabic??

i have the ios 7 beta and i'm having a few bugs with the language support...
anything like that on the Mavricks beta..?

after seeing the feedback from you guys about the bugs in the beta this is probably the only reason why i still haven't installed it yet...

Thanks,
Tal.
 
Scrolling is very buggy. Sometimes choppy, sometimes overly sensitive, sometimes not scrolling at all, but most of the time very smooth.
 
Installed on machine below.

Most dock items have no icon, only name when cursor placed over.
Many icons of apps, files etc are blank with just the name.
Many previous ML dock items were missing though the apps were still in the app folder. Some apps were marked with a red dot (implies not compatible?).

For the above I have used killall Dock and force quit the finder to no avail. Everything was fine after the initial install but after a restart the problems began.

Also had problems with unaccepted passwords in the keychain for iCloud and in Safari.

I recovered ML from TM and in a little while I'm going to try and reinstall Mavericks.
 
I have it installed on my mid-2010 13" MBP.

The performance is fantastic, reminds me when I had Snow Leopard on this machine. I've been planning to upgrade the RAM from 4GB-8GB.. I can only imagine the performance being even better when I do that :D.

I encountered a bug with iMessages, but I managed to sign in fine after a while. Maps sends directions to my iPhone 5 perfectly.

I had one issue where it would get stuck loading the screensaver. I turned off the screensaver and all is well.


Pretty good experience considering this is DP1.
 
If you have looked at the incompatible list of apps, then the overall performance is fantastic, far better than 10.8 DP1.
 
I'm on a mid-2012 13" cMBP, and Mavericks is hands down the fastest and smoothest operating system I've ever used. Mountain Lion was great, but scrolling and animations could be pretty choppy from time to time. None of that on Mavericks. It's fantastic.
 
Tubamajuba said:
I'm on a mid-2012 13" cMBP, and Mavericks is hands down the fastest and smoothest operating system I've ever used. Mountain Lion was great, but scrolling and animations could be pretty choppy from time to time. None of that on Mavericks. It's fantastic.
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I don't know... Mission control is sometimes pretty choppy on my Early 2011. (HD3000 graphics). Nothing to cry about though. I think ML started out that way.

And seriously, I don't care how many glowing reviews about Mav DP1 you read here. There is no way I'd use this as my day-to-day OS. We've only had it a couple of days.
 
I agree. Although it seems very usable, I am only running it because I know there is a backup mac.
 
Krazy Bill said:
I don't know... Mission control is sometimes pretty choppy on my Early 2011. (HD3000 graphics). Nothing to cry about though. I think ML started out that way.

And seriously, I don't care how many glowing reviews about Mav DP1 you read here. There is no way I'd use this as my day-to-day OS. We've only had it a couple of days.
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I understand what you're saying. I fully assume the risk I'm taking by using it as my "daily driver". If something goes wrong... my fault. But it's working out very well so far. I have backups on various drives of all my important data so if I wake up one morning and my Mavericks install took the first train out of town, I wouldn't be too upset.
 
HiFiGuy528 said:
Thinking about trying it out along with iOS 7 on my 2011 Air and iPod Touch. Is the beta version stable enough to use on a daily machine?
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I'm using Mavericks as my main OS. No big issues so far, but my files are on a seperate Hard Drive. So, as mentioned above by others, backup, backup, backup. :)

Wormald said:
Anyone tried Better Touch Tool and/or Keyboard Maestro on Mavericks yet?
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Better Touch Tool working without problems for me.

One really important app for me was TotalSpaces but that doesn't work on Mavericks so far. FunctionFlip also doesn't work.
 
From my experience on a 13 inch Macbook Air (2011), I found it quite difficult to use as a primary operating system. I had a number of graphics issues which left me only able to use the OS by booting into safe mode.
 
27yr old going on 8

hey guys

in language an idiot would understand, how would i revert back to 10.8 after installing 10.9 as my main OS?

sorry to be elementary
 
kayvong8 said:
hey guys

in language an idiot would understand, how would i revert back to 10.8 after installing 10.9 as my main OS?

sorry to be elementary
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Why would you install 10.9 beta 1 as your main OS if you were not willing to stick with it through the revisions?
 
Its relatively stable for a beta but you'll notice with time that it is a beta. App nap seems to have an issue with background Youtube playback. and GPU drivers aren't quite up to snuff yet.

Some apps are also glitchy now which is to be expected i suppose.

I've returned to ML for now.

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kayvong8 said:
hey guys

in language an idiot would understand, how would i revert back to 10.8 after installing 10.9 as my main OS?

sorry to be elementary
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If you only have one computer/partition. Create a bootable disk of the Mavericks installer (instructions in this subforum) then boot into the installer (hold down option when starting the computer and pick the installer) wipe the partition you installed mavericks into. Then restart your computer. This time boot into a Mountain Lion installer (you can also create a bootable disk for this…Google it) and install it into the partition you just wiped.
 
I take it once you back up your system, the installer simply allows you to install this directly over Mountain Lion?

In other words, you can launch the installer from within Mountain Lion and it will take over from there?
 
NJRonbo said:
I take it once you back up your system, the installer simply allows you to install this directly over Mountain Lion?

In other words, you can launch the installer from within Mountain Lion and it will take over from there?
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Correct.
 
Thanks, w0lf!

Now to decide whether I should actually do it.

I am hearing too many programs not working under the
new operating system.
 
I loaded DP1 on my 2010 MacBook Air w 4gb RAM.

Initially I was lke "oh no, what did I do" as the system crawled along, however as we all know the system likes to do a Spotlight reindex after a new install.

That completed and now WOW. Much smoother, faster, better than 10.8
 
cschmelz,

You feel comfortable moving forward with this as your main operating system?
 
NJRonbo said:
Thanks, w0lf!

Now to decide whether I should actually do it.

I am hearing too many programs not working under the
new operating system.
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In my opinion the OS itself is certainly stable enough to use. I have had nothing crash aside from Finder once when I tried to run XtraFinder.

The decision to use or not use Mavericks right now all lies in the fact of what apps work and don't work. If there is an app that you frequently need to use that does not work in Mavericks I would say it's best to wait or use Mavericks on a secondary/test partition.
 
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