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Mavericks is a massive improvement.
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It depends on where your partition is located. I upgraded my original mountain lion partition to the Mavericks gold master by using the full Mavericks installer, and then deleted the old beta Mavericks partition (on the bottom in disk utility) to reclaim 100 GB of space for the new Mavericks gold master
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That's unfortunate about your time capsule. Mine upgraded and didn't cause a problem but......
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I second that. It seems like mountain lions rollout was extremely buggy and some of the worst problems were not fixed until the very last release 10.8.5. I think Mavericks is coming out of the gate pretty strong.
When 10.8 came out I read all over the place what a great OS it was and that it is what 10.7 should have been, etc etc...
Yet In my experience 10.8 hasn't been so great at all. So as much as I hope it's true that 10.9 is better, I'm a little sceptical. Especially when I see...
A day?? Come on.. I think it takes longer than that to conclude if an OS is any good or not. I thought 10.8 was good after a day. After a week I realised it was borked. But again, really, I do hope its true that 10.9 is better..
Yet In my experience 10.8 hasn't been so great at all. So as much as I hope it's true that 10.9 is better, I'm a little sceptical. Especially when I see...
A day?? Come on.. I think it takes longer than that to conclude if an OS is any good or not. I thought 10.8 was good after a day. After a week I realised it was borked. But again, really, I do hope its true that 10.9 is better..
I had horrible zooming and scrolling issues when i first got my 2013 mba, but mavericks has almost completely fixed it. scrolling/zooming is smooth as silk in safari/finder/etc, but in preview with large PDFs it can still bog down when i know it really shouldn't. Maps is great for beaming your route to your iPhone from your mac, but business locations in apple maps are hopeless. I get an extra 2 hours of battery life minimum with Mavs, reason by itself to love it dearly. I don't really even remember what else is new in it.
Well I like Mavericks, but found something that's super annoying and I hope Apple fixes. FCP X doesn't work well with it at all! It's ProTranscoder Tool keeps dying, or get's stuck at Not Responding. I took this picture yesterday, and after transcoding, processing, and sharing it only took me a total of 5.5 Hours!
For a simple 20 minute video, where all I did was add in sound effects, background music, and some light effects.
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My GPU renderer keeps reporting as Not Responding as well, and it seems to die during work.
I suspect it's Mavericks new CPU processing Idling feature, where it sees the tools, and programs as idling because I leave it to work. So it idles the processes, and can't kick in vital tools and processes afterwards.
Only fix I found was to sit and wait out a process to finish and save, then quit, and relaunch FCPX, then do the next part, and repeat until I get it all done.
For a simple 20 minute video, where all I did was add in sound effects, background music, and some light effects.
My GPU renderer keeps reporting as Not Responding as well, and it seems to die during work.
I suspect it's Mavericks new CPU processing Idling feature, where it sees the tools, and programs as idling because I leave it to work. So it idles the processes, and can't kick in vital tools and processes afterwards.
Only fix I found was to sit and wait out a process to finish and save, then quit, and relaunch FCPX, then do the next part, and repeat until I get it all done.
I think that if you right click the FCPX app and select "Get Info", you should be able to disable the idling feature by checking the "Prevent App Nap" if that's what is really causing the problem.
Another thing I've noticed is the video RAM on my 2012 MBA is now at 1 GB, it used to be 512 mb on ML. I was playing The Walking Dead game on Steam yesterday and the fan barely even came on at all, but when I played it last week using ML the fan would be going crazy the entire time I played. I'm assuming that has something to do with more of the RAM being dedicated to video
That is interesting to hear. Sounds similar to a hack that someone published a while back on these forums to bump the amount of memory reserved for the Intel HD Graphics 4000. How much would this improve performance on a non-dedicated graphics card?
Seems good so far - wouldn't clean install and boot via either usb or DVD on my Mac Pro 2008 so I had to install lion first. Lightning fast but I've never had 32gb ram, 8 cores and a SATA 3 SSD in my other setups.
It's very early days though - I still have Adobe CS, Quark and FCP to go then a pia AHCI boot camp setup to do. I expect those are when the glitches are going to start.
It's very early days though - I still have Adobe CS, Quark and FCP to go then a pia AHCI boot camp setup to do. I expect those are when the glitches are going to start.
Running the GM on a 2008 MBP 15", its flying.
Looks basically the same as Mountain Lion, a bit quicker, and the new features are nice.
Haven't run into any bugs, fingers crossed. All my Apple Pro software is running great (Logic Pro X, FCP X, Motion, Aperture, etc).
These updates should really become free soon like in iOS.
Looks basically the same as Mountain Lion, a bit quicker, and the new features are nice.
Haven't run into any bugs, fingers crossed. All my Apple Pro software is running great (Logic Pro X, FCP X, Motion, Aperture, etc).
These updates should really become free soon like in iOS.
Having the same problem. Have you tried the prevent app nap box? Did it work?
Any workarounds?
Any workarounds?
The main thing I've noticed on my 2009 MBP is an improvement in battery life - the battery used to last for about 2 hours web browsing, but now it lasts for 3-4 hours web browsing
I disabled App Nap form FCPX's Get Info tab, and did a PRAM reset on my system.
So far so good since the GM at least.