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OS X Mavericks Adoption Pushing Past 7% in Under 24 Hours

I enjoy what Mavericks brings. I also second that Creig needs to be the one running the Keynotes. Everyone else is just a shy, geeky, and awkward dude.
 
Free turns a lot of people into early adopters :D

I'm still going to wait until 10.9.1. Just superstitious I guess. And I've been running the DP's on a spare Mac.
 
I'm running Mavericks now...and honestly, it's really bothersome that the design schemes between OSX and iOS are different. The core apps look very different when shifting from one to another (i.e. the Reminders app on OSX is still skeumorphic, while in iOS it's the "flat" design, etc).

Apple's unified design was great (even if it was the wrong design). Now I have to explain to every older person in my family that there are TWO types of looks for the apps they use every day as they bounce around from their iOS devices to their Macs.

Otherwise, Mavericks is wonderful...but Apple needs to just pick a design and go with it.
 
Updated from Mountain Lion and it's fine so far on my iMac; love tabbed Finder. That's really all that I've noticed to be different though I'm sure all the "power saving" features or whatever will be nice for Macbook users.

A good upgrade, gotten more out of it than I did Mountain Lion and it's free :p. I'm hoping the memory issues of Lion and Mountain Lion (old Apps holding onto memory and not releasing it when it's needed causing lag) are resolved but that's going to take a while to find out.
 
Not suprised at the adoption rate, because it's free. That being said, I don't have any issues from it... Yet.
 
So far seems good. Glad that all the skeumorphic crap has gone.

I'm sure Safari is faster in part due to the fact that the install cleans up crap that slows it down.. wait a few months and then review the performance - i'm sure it will be good still, but not as good as immediately after installing 10.9.

The performance over all of 10.9 seems a lot faster than ML.

Just need to get my Canon MX700 working over network... not just USB.
 
lunarworks said:
Hopefully this will get holdouts off of Snow Leopard and Lion. Then devs can target new APIs introduced since then. :)
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I, being one of those holdouts still on SL, am currently on mavericks and enjoying it. Safari does seem snappier because I was playing flash video with much less CPU heat up (~5-10 c).

Just one issue is not understanding how to get rid of "Show top sites" in favorites bar and "favorites bar' in the bookmarks menu.
 
somethingelsefl said:
I'm running Mavericks now...and honestly, it's really bothersome that the design schemes between OSX and iOS are different. The core apps look very different when shifting from one to another (i.e. the Reminders app on OSX is still skeumorphic, while in iOS it's the "flat" design, etc).

Apple's unified design was great (even if it was the wrong design). Now I have to explain to every older person in my family that there are TWO types of looks for the apps they use every day as they bounce around from their iOS devices to their Macs.

Otherwise, Mavericks is wonderful...but Apple needs to just pick a design and go with it.
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If Mountain Lion was Phase 1, and Mavericks/iOS 7 was Phase 2, I'd expect them to do what you're saying this time next year basically - Phase 3 will be more unified.
 
Anyone notice that iMessage seems to be more reliable and snappy in Mavericks? Also, what's the deal with 'automatic' iMessage colour schemes? It turned my girlfriend's messages pink with it turned on, what does it base the colours on?
 
nope7308 said:
After upgrading to iOS 7, I'm hesitant to install a new OS on any old device. Would mavericks cripple my 2008 Macbook? It was sold with Leopard installed :/
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I'm on a late 2008 MacBook Pro, and it works great. Some software incompatibilities that will give me headaches until they're updated, but nothing big.
 
I really like it! I feel like my machine runs faster on it. Maybe it's all mental but it sure seems smoother. I do like all the little additions they made and it feels SOOOO good as always to work in a stable environment. :D

I only have 2 issues:
It seems to have stopped supporting my 2nd display's resolution (1360x768) which is a MASSIVE annoyance since on ML and earlier it worked and it fit my TV perfectly corner to corner and now I'm stuck in either 4:3 or letterbox.
And...
Finder is still a useless piece of garbage that will never ever ever even come close to holding Windows Explorer's jock (especially in 8/8.1).
Tags are pointless (for me) and tabs are something I've had for the last 4 years w/ TotalFinder so... :rolleyes:
 
Just upgraded from ML.

My 2011 13" MBA's battery life has increased dramatically by about 1 extra hour! Unbelievable what they managed to improve here.

Everything is even smoother, the new iPhoto is significantly more responsive (I dare to say that it's finally at a usable level). I love these "under the hood" changes, Mavericks is undoubtedly gonna be the finest form of OS X.
 
somethingelsefl said:
I'm running Mavericks now...and honestly, it's really bothersome that the design schemes between OSX and iOS are different. The core apps look very different when shifting from one to another (i.e. the Reminders app on OSX is still skeumorphic, while in iOS it's the "flat" design, etc).

Apple's unified design was great (even if it was the wrong design) . Now I have to explain to every older person in my family that there are TWO types of looks for the apps they use every day as they bounce around from their iOS devices to their Macs.

Otherwise, Mavericks is wonderful...but Apple needs to just pick a design and go with it.
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While I agree that Apple's unified design was a draw, I respectfully disagree with the original design being the wrong design. I loved how seamless and similar things were between iOS and the Mac visually. iOS looked like "OSX-lite," all the way down to the glass dock.

If Mavericks had introduced iOS 7's design sense, my upgrade path would've halted immediately. I upgraded just to see if this is the case and to make sure I liked what Apple did with OSX (and of course, see if it breaks anything in my systems). Thankfully, I am not forced to keep the "upgrade", as with iOS. So far, I don't think I have to have any of the new features Mavericks introduces, so I can go back to ML without hesitation if I don't like what I see. I haven't had time to play with it enough yet, though.

That being said, I agree that this introduces confusion (and perhaps a measure of fragmentation) for (uninitiated or non-geeky) users. This is something that Apple should address and frankly, this frightens me. I fear that future releases will move to the non-skeuomorphic, candy-colored iOS style to keep things consistent, given that iOS is the revenue driver at Apple.

I'd love for Apple to find a middle ground, but at this point I am in uncharted waters: I just don't trust Apple like I used to (design-wise, at least).
 
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