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OS X Yosemite Hits the Mac App Store, Available Immediately as a Free Download

I will wait until I get a new Mac to migrate. Kind of disappointed in the iOS/OS X melding in that order to access some nice features, you need an iPhone. That's a great feature for those who have the phone.
 
Like the new stuff, not too keen on the design.
Maybe just take some getting used to, but I feel every window on my desktop just blends into each other and nothing stands out
 
Installed successfully after downloading all night. Our Internet access is terrible up here; slow DSL. I got better download speeds ten years ago in rural eastern Europe.

I really like the design of the new desktop. The dock is much easier to read. Will start testing out other new features this weekend!!

Congrats to the Yosemite team at Apple!
 
Working great so far. I personally like the new look. Performance seems a little snappier too. Very pleased with this and now I can finally go back to sharing documents with my iPad Air which was using the new iCloud drive. :D
 
Clean Install?

Do you recommend a FRESH install or just UPGRADE the system? Noticeable speed improvements if going fresh? Worth the time it would take?
 
I have the install file.
When I click on it it'll upgrade my OS.
How can I do a clean fresh install?
 
First thing I noticed - Yosemite freed up 10gb of storage on my Macs. This brought up the amount of storage of my 64-gb macbook air from 8 to 18gb. Worth upgrading for this alone.

Can't get handoff to work just yet. Will troubleshoot later.

Few questions - not all my apps seem to be appearing in iCloud drive. There's the iWork's suite, scanner pro and textedit. What about notability, pdfexpert and goodreader?
 
I'll download... but damn its ugly. Most ugly OS I've seen since XP. Hopefully plenty of people will be making some 3rd party themes.
 
NSXRebel said:
Continuity is working for me just fine. The only thing that's not working for me is SMS with iMessage. Gonna look into it now and see if I missed a setting somewhere.
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SMS Relay will be activated with the iOS 8.1 update on Monday. The option will then appear in the settings of the Messages App in Yosemite. People that have been on the beta have confirmed the options appear.
 
I'm not able to see wikipedia in spotlight search. I've checked everywhere in settings. Neither does Bing search result appear. Am I missing something? Or is it Region Specific? I live in United Arab Emirates.
 
Did a clean install last night and everything runs great on my Mid 2011 iMac. Only thing that doesn't work is HandOff but that's due to my iMac having a 2.1 Bloothtooth.
 
roadbloc said:
I'll download... but damn its ugly. Most ugly OS I've seen since XP.
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I agree. Leopard was the last version of OS X that actually looked good and that was visually consistent. The "IOSification" of OS X isn't doing the platform any favors.
 
Left the download running overnight. Installed Yosemite this morning (21.5" iMac mid 2011). Took about 20 minutes, no problems or issues of any kind.
 
dysamoria said:
My MacBook Pro is beautiful on Snow Leopard. Boots super fast even when running from an external USB hard drive. Mavericks, however, takes forever to start, is quite sluggish when first getting to the desktop... Every version of OS X has gotten slower. I don't have the most recent hardware, that's true. Still... I also don't have the most recent iPhone, so I have no ability to use all this extra interoperability between OS X and my phone. It's a waste of resources.
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NSXRebel said:
You gotta be doing something wrong. I've been running Yosemite on a 2013 15" rMBP since August, no noticeable problems.
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As the previous quote states, I am not the only one. Granted this is not the latest machine I'm running it on, but its SSD + 4GB RAM upgrade should have done the job decently. And yet it doesn't. Surprisingly and against Genius recommendation I didn't stop to Snow Leopard on this one, I ran Mountain Lion before, and it was not snappy but very fast, even comfortable. Even Mavericks, which I ran briefly, was OK. But not Yosemite. Maybe because of the invasion of useless visual effects? I sent one feedback about WindowServer process always using a high amount of CPU, even on an idling machine. Turns out it must be caused by those effects. At the very least, they should be toned down for older machines.

ThatGuyInLa said:
4. SMS does not work. Can't send or receive.
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You forgot to add that iMessage setup still isn't clear. I made an experiment with a friend who has an iPhone 5C, she told me she saw two conversations, not one.

All you who were involved with beta-testing are FAILS.
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Maybe some weren't as thorough as I was, but I sent at least 70 feedbacks detailing malfunctions. It's not our fault Apple chose to ignore those before hasty release.

I forgot to add that "quick view", although it now stays opened in the background, still can't shuffle multipages PDF properly. In the background with part of the window exposed I can sometimes go to the next page (a feature of OS X I always liked compared to Windows, where a window needs focus to be scrolled), but not back, and not shuffle to the next one again.
 
I have ordered a Mid-2014 MBP 15" Retina. I hope it comes with 10.9 (Mavericks). If it comes with Yosemite, what is the best way to revert to 10.9?

I have 10.9 running on an external hard drive connected to an early 2011 MBP 17. Can I just move that drive to the new 15", boot, reformat the SSD and install 10.9?

How long will Apple be shipping MBPs with SSD that still have 10.9 on them?
 
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