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

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I downloaded Yosemite overnight, and started the installation this morning on my 2012 Mac Mini with homegrown Fusion Drive and FileVault turned on. It's been stuck at "About 11 minutes remaining" for almost two hours.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
 
ErikGrim said:
Personal tastes are subtle. We share a more innate sense of what is aesthetically pleasing than you think. Some of us are more practically inclined at the expense of an outright appreciation of aesthetics, workmanship and quality. Call it a right brain/left brain thing if you want to overly (and highly wrongly) simplify it. And there is nothing wrong with that.

It is when you try to use that inherent bias in critiquing the other side you are running into problems. You are confusing your own weighted biases for taste. Biases towards functionality over form are certainly down to how an individual is cobbled together, but does not override an innate shared sensibility of aesthetics. We can all tell the difference between a run down part of town and a well maintained gentrified area and feel safer in the latter rather than the former regardless of your own starting biases. There is a shared sense of aesthetics that is pretty universal, overriding many of your own preferences.
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So what you're saying is... people who like the look of Yosemite are right and people who don't are wrong... regardless of what they think?
 
AndrewClarke said:
I downloaded Yosemite overnight, and started the installation this morning on my 2012 Mac Mini with homegrown Fusion Drive and FileVault turned on. It's been stuck at "About 11 minutes remaining" for almost two hours.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
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Yup, just be patient.
 
Downloaded it. The user interface is UGLY ... hideous and off-putting. It feels and looks like Windows XP. It's clunky, old-fashioned, bland, anti-Apple, and corporate.

Any suggestions as to how to go back to 10.9.5? How do I remove it?
 
canonical said:
Downloaded it. The user interface is UGLY ... hideous and off-putting. It feels and looks like Windows XP. It's clunky, old-fashioned, bland, anti-Apple, and corporate.

Any suggestions as to how to go back to 10.9.5? How do I remove it?
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Did you honestly not look at any of the articles previewing it prior to install??? Geez.
 
tripmusic said:
I'm using the Yosemite Beta 5 tester and the App store is saying to wait for an update, So I'm assuming the fifth Beta tester is also the GM?
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No, I don't think so. I had Beta 6 installed and no Yosemite final release even appeared in updates, so I'll assume Beta 6 was the final.

I did download the full installer, but I don't think I'm going to use it unless someone gives me a reason to.

As for problems, the same ones are still there.

#1) Excruciating boot time.

#2) Displays System panel can't remember my boot display.

Can't wait for 10.10.1 already.
 
OS X has been a wasteland since 10.6.8, but whatever, guys.

10.10 is not that bad. Apparently the computer I installed it on doesn't do Handoff, which is disappointing, but it's old and in need of replacing anyway. I think features have finally caught up to where they ought to be, since 10.7 removed a bunch. At the very least enough new features have been added to make people forget what they've lost. Translucency can be turned off, Safari has an option to show URLs, and at least they've reversed the trend about taking away colors from the interface. OS X 10.11 will be far better, I suspect, but at least this way we have a year to get used to the visual changes before they produce a better OS under the hood.
 
Sasparilla said:
Ordered a MBP, but from where? If you ordered it from Apple it may or may not have 10.9 still on it. If you ordered it from a 3rd party (Best Buy etc.) it will almost certainly have 10.9 on it.

If it had Yosemite on it, then you'd want to make an image of your new MBP drive (backed up so you have all the extras that came with it), grab the latest installer for Mavericks (10.9.5?), make a thumb drive installer with it (so you have it to keep) and then do a clean install and you should (should) be good to go.

As for how long will Apple be shipping MBP's with 10.9...I doubt anyone could tell you other than, not long - but you'll be able to walk into a 3rd party (Best Buy) and still get them for a while because they don't turn their inventory over that fast (got an iPad 4 with iOS 6 months after the transition to iOS 7 that way).
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"Usually" what you get is a 'toss-in' DVD with the next greatest OS on it and the now previous OS is installed on the device. It takes a while to get the non-current systems out of the channel. That practice *may* have changed since the OS is available for free. The strange ting is that the last time I bought a new MBP, it had a 'toss-in' DVD that was a slightly older version of the shipping OS. People were reporting 'issues' with that DVD, and were resorting to using the Software Update version instead...

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HyperZboy said:
Can't wait for 10.10.1 already.
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Or 10.10.0.1?

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Is it too early for a consensus?

Good, bad, going half mad?
 
So far everything went smoothly

Waited 12 hours before installation on my MBA 13" 20 Mid-2011 so I could read some of the feedbacks and because about a zillion of users tried to get the same download.

The look needs to get used to, otherwise no major issues here, everything runs as expected.

If I come across something I will post it here
 
roadbloc said:
So what you're saying is... people who like the look of Yosemite are right and people who don't are wrong... regardless of what they think?
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Not at all. Just that you might want to downplay your own instincts. Recognise what is resistance to change and what is actual aesthetic critique. Everything new many will naturally resist even if it is an objective improvement.

So what I am saying is: give it a shot. Chances are within a few weeks you will forget that it's even different and appreciate its objective aesthetic improvements.

Putting all that aside, you might even appreciate the true nature of an operating system: that by design it should fade out and not take your attention good or bad. It should present you with an experience that lets you focus on the tasks at hand or the content you take in, without pulling attention away from that for itself. Yosemite, once the newness becomes the norm, does just that. And that my friend, is objectively good design.
 
I'm running either PB5 or 6, not sure if I ever did the last update. I was having lots of problem with my mid-2011 MBP running really sluggish on the betas, is this still an issue with the full release? Also, how can I install and make sure that I am getting the released version and getting rid of the PB? I'm fairly proficient with computers, kind of at the stage where I know enough to be dangerous but not enough to fix what I seem to be so adept at screwing up! LOL! Anyway, how can I ensure that I am running the full release with nothing remaining from the betas? :confused:
 
It's taking forever to format bootable USB

20 minutes passed. The file size shown in Finder has stayed at 24.6 MB for more than 10 minutes. In the Activity Monitor, terminal is taking up essentially zero resources. Is this normal?

PS: have followed instructions to the letter.
 
Handoff MBA 13" Mid 2011

Does anybody have MBA 13" Mid 2011, Handoff is not available on my Mac, anybody else with the same issue?
 
I have to admit I've been saying Yosemite wrong this whole time until I watched this video. :eek:
 
oopsroger said:
20 minutes passed. The file size shown in Finder has stayed at 24.6 MB for more than 10 minutes. In the Activity Monitor, terminal is taking up essentially zero resources. Is this normal?

PS: have followed instructions to the letter.
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Which instructions?

I've just made one using these instructions and it took ~30 minutes (between 20 and 40 mins, not quite sure). Mine seemed to stay at the 5GB mark for quite a while.

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Maxipeg said:
Does anybody have MBA 13" Mid 2011, Handoff is not available on my Mac, anybody else with the same issue?
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https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/20015070/
 
My main aesthetic issue is the new dock. Hate it. Feels like Windows

Also, when are we going to get a real dark mode? A slightly darker dock and menu bar is just funny :rolleyes:
 
TsMkLg068426 said:
Is it just me this whole Flat look is just too FLAT? I feel like it just boring on my iMac Mid-2011 and sadly can not connect my iPhone because of older Bluetooth, I really do not see much I was expecting a lot more than just UI changes. I guess to get more you must always buy the latest iMac.
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It looks like a third gradre designed it (unless that's what Ivy was going for)
Look at the re-size buttons and colors. Hideous.
I guess 80s is the new modern?
 
I have to agree and would like to go back to Mavericks...there is absolutely no depth and looks amateurish. I like how everything popped before, now it's just flat. I do like that it's easier on the eyes...odd to say that because of the previous sentence. Even iTunes is unappealing. How do I reinstall Mavericks?

canonical said:
Downloaded it. The user interface is UGLY ... hideous and off-putting. It feels and looks like Windows XP. It's clunky, old-fashioned, bland, anti-Apple, and corporate.

Any suggestions as to how to go back to 10.9.5? How do I remove it?
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Download complete - but where is it? It's not in my Downloads folder under any REAL name or recent date. The window telling me it's ready to install has no close button for me to perform that later ... after I read whatever problems are revealed by the early adopters / testers.

How do I locate this installation device later?
 
andy9l said:
Hmm they should work. Still no luck?

I would personally try quitting terminal now, reformatting the USB with disk utility, then run the terminal command again.
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The first time the size stuck at 1.3 something GB. Did what you said. The second time stuck at 24.6MB.

I'm losing hope. Can it be that the installer is compromised? When I downloaded it the system freeze I had to cold restart (press and hold power button and force shut down).
 
Really!?! (in an SNL voice)

canonical said:
Downloaded it. The user interface is UGLY ... hideous and off-putting. It feels and looks like Windows XP. It's clunky, old-fashioned, bland, anti-Apple, and corporate.

Any suggestions as to how to go back to 10.9.5? How do I remove it?
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Please disregard if this post is sarcasm.....

I'm baffled. Who the hell blindly installs a new OS they've obviously never seen while at the same time belonging to a Mac Forum where they've had plenty of opportunities to preview what Yosemite looks like (in addition to the thousands of screenshots and previews on the internet)???

P.S. I think Yosemite is gorgeous and a welcome change. :cool:
 
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