Yeah, El Cap is totally XP.
Many numerous bugs in El Cap, and I have had frozen system several times. But no, El Cap isn’t Microsoft 10 years ago.
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Mac Users Reporting Widespread System Freezes With OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 Update
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Yeah, El Cap is totally XP.
Many numerous bugs in El Cap, and I have had frozen system several times. But no, El Cap isn’t Microsoft 10 years ago.
Driving down the high way at 70MPH in a self driving car and CarOS freezes up and your coming up to a roundabout and you got no way to stop the car...
I think I will pass the Apple Car.
TC cares more about the profits than the user experience. His years as CEO and what has happened speaks for itself.
I have a mid-2012 MBP (I want a new Mac badly now, but don't see anything in the current Mac lineup worth upgrading to). Over the last few years I can't count how many serious glitches and total freezes I've experienced. On the contrary, my gaming Windows PC has been rock solid. I can remember only a few times a restart was necessary in its entire lifetime. Upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 was also smooth. Both of my machines work with 100% legal software, always updated, nothing unnecessary installed.
Granted, I spend most of my "computer-time" with my Mac (working), so of course more problems can arise, but for me the myth of how bad Windows is and how perfect the Mac is - seems laughable.
Granted, I spend most of my "computer-time" with my Mac (working), so of course more problems can arise, but for me the myth of how bad Windows is and how perfect the Mac is - seems laughable.
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The reality is that in the past Windows was a lottery, things have changed , they are probably on par, I'd even say windows 10 is more stable for me, though I use mac more, so that skewers the results
I have a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro running 10.11.4.
I was experiencing some freezes for about 30s in duration, but it seemed to be losing access to the network. It would always return to normal after the freeze, and didn't require a reboot. It wasn't system wide though, but anything of a remote network nature would be offline.
I turned off the wifi and used a 10baseT ethernet thunderbolt adapter. No freezes since. It's been over a week since I turned off wifi.
I was experiencing some freezes for about 30s in duration, but it seemed to be losing access to the network. It would always return to normal after the freeze, and didn't require a reboot. It wasn't system wide though, but anything of a remote network nature would be offline.
I turned off the wifi and used a 10baseT ethernet thunderbolt adapter. No freezes since. It's been over a week since I turned off wifi.
Even better I'm still on 10.6. Solid and works great with my iPhone 6 running iOS 8
They do seem to be losing focus. It's a shame they can't expand their business and keep up the excellence of their existing business.
I have a 2011 or 2012 MBPro. I don't use it often anymore. When I do, it's running Windows. I bought it for the quality of the hardware but I needed it to run Windows.
Similar issue when waking my 2015 15" MacBook Pro from sleep, sometimes it will completely lock up.
In in the exact same boat. Mid 2012 rMBP with no machine that I can see as a replacement. My Mac Pro can't even keep a connection to its Bluetooth mouse so I have gone wired .
I've had one major crash from my PC that I remember , Windows went into restore mode and fixed itself , unlike the old days where I had to rebuild the machine from scratch.
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I can handle many things , bugs happen, but when you cannot offer a stable WIFi experience while pushing all you products towards mobile / wireless , that is a major failure. Maybe my 2012 rMBP was just a lemon.....Apple fixed the wireless issues eventually though .
I love irrelevant comments like this. Whether or not Windows has issues doesn't negate the issue of macbooks freezing. I don't think the owners of the affected computers give a lick as to what's happening on other people's Windows-based machines.
That's exactly the case right now, there are less problems with Windows overall.Sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean there are less problems with Windows overall.
The problem is with the manufacturers neglecting to properly update the drivers of the components, but the Windows software alone + the generic drivers is stable enough (but without all the features of the official driver). Of course faulty drivers cause lock ups and BSOD, and you have to do a clean install (not update from previous versions) for it to work perfectly, not different at all from all those users that have to clean install OS X to get rid of issues.
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That's a coin that can used both ways, mostly against anyone who is on the opposite side of the argument that you are standing in.
Mine wasn't like that at all. My MacBook Pro (Early 2015) operated as quickly as always but suddenly froze. Everything down to the cursor instantly. I had to restart to fix it.
Agree. Windows is now becoming more solid than ever, thanks to the actual requirement that Windows needs to be installed on countless combinations of hardware.
Yes, but not Yosemite. Uh, if Yosemite is fine then that is fine.
lol. XD
So, Mac OS X problem? Or hardware problem? Hackintosh is not the main stream but this is...
Laughable.
Uh, sorry, I just think about 10 years at that time and didn't realise it was Windows XP 10 years ago.Yeah, El Cap is totally XP.
Many numerous bugs in El Cap, and I have had frozen system several times. But no, El Cap isn’t Microsoft 10 years ago.
Maybe, El Capitan is the Vista SP2?
Agree. Windows is now becoming more solid than ever, thanks to the actual requirement that Windows needs to be installed on countless combinations of hardware.
Yes, but not Yosemite. Uh, if Yosemite is fine then that is fine.
lol. XD
So, Mac OS X problem? Or hardware problem? Hackintosh is not the main stream but this is...
Laughable.
Uh, sorry, I just think about 10 years at that time and didn't realise it was Windows XP 10 years ago.
Maybe, El Capitan is the Vista SP2?
No, not Vista either.
There are many irritating bugs in El Cap, though. Quality control is seemingly understaffed.
I have actually been having the same issue on my 13" MacBook pro. It's good to know that the issue is more than likely software related instead of a hardware issue but it's still very frustrating non the less. Having to do a hard reboot can lead to hardware issues. Hopefully Apple released a fix for this very soon.
Point releases are just public beta releases now. So no worry, they fix it after 4 or 5 weekly beta release.
"There are many irritating bugs in El Cap, though. Quality control is seemingly understaffed.[/QUOTE]
Yes El Cap has been a bit buggy on my late 2011 15" Macbook Pro. Glad I have had no freezes, maybe due to me having hardware graphics card permanently selected as active. 10.1.5 Beta is better.
My old Mac Pro 1,1 gets used 10 hours a day running 10.6.8 and can't remember the last time it crashed. Wish El Cap could reach the reliability standard set by Snow Leopard. Dreaming..............
The annual OSX new system roll out is downgrading system reliability. Would rather they came out with a new system every 2 years and have it fully debugged.
Yes El Cap has been a bit buggy on my late 2011 15" Macbook Pro. Glad I have had no freezes, maybe due to me having hardware graphics card permanently selected as active. 10.1.5 Beta is better.
My old Mac Pro 1,1 gets used 10 hours a day running 10.6.8 and can't remember the last time it crashed. Wish El Cap could reach the reliability standard set by Snow Leopard. Dreaming..............
The annual OSX new system roll out is downgrading system reliability. Would rather they came out with a new system every 2 years and have it fully debugged.
I've got a mid-2012 MacBook Pro (bought December 2014) with the same problem on 10.11.4. On my system its the WindowServer process which appears to freeze the screen--the underlying Darwin OS is still running fine and is accessible over the network via SSH. My machine locks about once every two or so weeks--at that time I SSH in and do a "sudo shutdown -r now" in a tty, and then come back in a few minutes. It shouldn't happen, but when it does WindowServer is the culprit over here.
Jesus, mine just froze up out of no where last night for the first time ever. I thought it was just me. This is disappointing!! On the bright side the reboot process takes less than 10 seconds on my early 2015 MBP-R