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OS X Yosemite Beta: First Impressions, Installation Tips, Known Issues, and Bug Fixes
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I just want to know when Safari will be fixed? I like safari but it uses lots of resources and causes slow downs with my late 2011 MacBook Pro. I use something to free up memory but it struggles as it is. Anyone have a better solution other than upgrading my ram?
I just want to know when Safari will be fixed? I like safari but it uses lots of resources and causes slow downs with my late 2011 MacBook Pro. I use something to free up memory but it struggles as it is. Anyone have a better solution other than upgrading my ram?
Wait for Microsoft to fix the bugs. They are literally testing just like you.
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4 to 8 and a SSD.
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Also, verify issue exists after clean install.
Hooray they finally dumped the battleship grey colour scheme for something decent - all grey is depressing - took them too damn long.
I'm still running it
and hopefully won't have to quit anytime soon! unless Yosemite is that good. i never even tried Mavericks. no need.honest question - To people that are much more computer literate than me!
I never used mavericks because SL really did all I needed. I am interested in Yosemitie ONLY because of continuity. I have a late 2012 MacBook Pro 15" and i had it fully upgraded online through apple. is my computer too old to run this program? sorry for the ignorance!
I never used mavericks because SL really did all I needed. I am interested in Yosemitie ONLY because of continuity. I have a late 2012 MacBook Pro 15" and i had it fully upgraded online through apple. is my computer too old to run this program? sorry for the ignorance!
Now that's a great wallpaper matching the dark mode. Any chance for a link please ?
Mavericks and other Apple OS releases have had these issues day one and I've hit them before on multiple occasions. Holding off for even half a day seems to usually help after the initial rush is over.
Those apps are crap compared to Microsoft Office, due to loss of the feature set Apple should stick only to the OS.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'had it fully upgraded online through apple' - does this mean you have already upgraded from SL to something else or are you still running SL?
Anyway, if you are still running SL, it will be a big change for you to upgrade now to Yosemite with a lot of things not working as they did before. Apart from the look changes, things to really be aware of is that you might find that you have a few applications that simply don't work anymore (for various reasons). Upgrading these can cost you quite a bit of money and the new ones may not work in the same way as your old ones. You loose the down arrow button on the finder (I for one found this really useful). The Finder in SL is fare faster than in any of the newer releases (only makes a big difference if you are a heavy user of it though moving large volumes of files around).
My recommendations would be to wait until you upgrade your computer before changing the operating system if it does what you need it to do at the moment. If you come across an app that you really need but can't install under SL then only then consider upgrading. If you do upgrade, before you do it, make a bootable copy of your computer using either Carbon Copy or SuperDuper on a 2.5 inch that you can simply replace back into your computer to go back easily to SL if you want to.
Edit, forgot to mention you will also probably have a few problems with your wifi connections - for some reason Apply really messed this up in Mavericks and haven't managed to fix it with the latest release and people are reporting problems with Yosemite beta so things are not looking too hopeful so far (I thought my computer was dying when I first came across this problem)
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I know... But I'm afraid it's more complicated, friend. The PC I'm considering trading in my Mac for is the Surface Pro 3, which has digitizer support. As a computer science and engineering student, I have to take a ton of handwritten notes. And as beautiful as the MacBook is (inside and out), it certainly can't compete with that.
How much RAM do you have? If you are rocking on with 4 GB, I suggest upgrading to 8 GB or 16 GB.
Using so-called Memory Cleaners / Optimizers is a really bad idea when it comes to performance.
They are purely snake oil and make performance worse by purging caches that an operating system maintains or forcing paging to disk by performing large allocations.
The memory manager in an operating system should be left alone to do its job.
It completely blows my mind that some people think that these pieces of freeware/shareware can do a better job than the operating system, not realizing that, if there was some bit of magic or easy win to be had, it would be there already...
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I'm totally liking the experience so far. The OS just feels better but I don't know why. The only thing so far that I am not liking is that they are using light fonts when there is a light background behind a translucent window. Perhaps like in IOS, they could make the font adapt as needed?
I think apple is heading in the right direction. I just hope that they keep OS X separate from iOS and they don't sacrifice the computer experience to make it more like iOS.
I think apple is heading in the right direction. I just hope that they keep OS X separate from iOS and they don't sacrifice the computer experience to make it more like iOS.
Running on my ancient MacBook Pro from 2007 (oldest supported laptop). No longer a primary machine, so I figured to give it a whirl. Originally came with 10.4.10. I thought for sure Mavericks was the end for this, but I guess not!
Current performance seems akin to Mavericks, which isnt bad. Havent noticed any other issues yet.
It's great that Apple is willing to keep the Santa Rosa MBPs chuggin along.
Current performance seems akin to Mavericks, which isnt bad. Havent noticed any other issues yet.
It's great that Apple is willing to keep the Santa Rosa MBPs chuggin along.