Possibly. My install has failed twice now so I'm currently restoring Mavericks.
Mine exits with, 'An error occurred while preparing the installation...'
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OS X Yosemite Hits the Mac App Store, Available Immediately as a Free Download
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Possibly. My install has failed twice now so I'm currently restoring Mavericks.
Mine exits with, 'An error occurred while preparing the installation...'
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.
True note.
There seem to be many Windows trolls here around...
I've ran it since beta 1 which is a damn site longer than a week or two, and its as jarring and distracting now as it ever was.
A back-filled dock who's color changes depending upon the desktop background image resulting; in it varying from muted brown to in-your-face high vis pink,
a spotlight search that opens in the middle of the screen, no where near the menu bar control that launches it and is more fiddly to use than the one it replaced.
A grid view background of eyeball searing white unless I opt to take the hobsons choice of dark mode (and then invert the colors of the menu items from the traditional norm and turn those into a distraction instead).
A maximise window control that no longer behaves like it always did. With no way of overriding it without reaching for the keyboard every time. Still catches me out to this day.
Translucency that makes menu items harder to read A) depending on background image or b) whats in the window its opened over
Screaming blue folder icons that actually draw attention away from the folder names
Desaturated finder menu icons that strip the last useful color cues out of that part of the OS
Half assed folder opening animations that plain don't work as intended and instead just distract me with an annoying glitch
Likewise the degraded icon redraw in grid view (one of the few areas in prior versions of OSX that already had transparency and actually coped with it well until now)
Does it look lovely in static screen shots, with just the right choice of precanned backround image and carefully arranged windows? Absolutely.
Does it cope well as an actual live user experience, without blink-inducing, jarring effects and a load of attention-sapping "squinting n staring" required? Not on your life.
Its a tiresome distraction that most certainly doesn't fade quietly into the background to allow me to focus in the way you suggest.
Its not even consistent. De-saturate this, transparency that on the one hand while ramping up the intensity of other screen elements (folder icons, drop down list selectors etc) for no appreciable reason or the other.
Its about as tasteful as an early 70s combo of screaming purple skin-tight bell bottomed loon pants and a bright orange bry-nylon shirt (with collar that reaches your nipples).
As a UI that minimizes distractions to get on with work its about as practical as wearing that gear to work too. Its only saving grace is it smacks of a fad whose time will be up just as quickly as those clothing choices were
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spotlight search for Install OS X Yosemite or look in Launchpad ( Rocket icon) on the dock .. Thats were my Yosemite install .DMG was after download..
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.
I have seen the screen shots and videos, and I find the GUI to be flat and banal. However, I choose my OS for functionality and feature set. If I can ever get it to install I'm sure I'll be happy with the upgrade.
I have been stalled on the 'progress' screen for over 11 hours now. I can't find a solution that I believe will solve the problem without creating other problems. I have a clone drive that I can restore from if necessary, but I'd like to get this installation to complete. Unfortunately, even the COMMAND + L action results in nothing more than an audio alert 'bonk' so I'm losing hope fast.
Got my Yosemite after midnight and it went smoothly.
I really love the look!!!!! My "Optimus Prime" (iMac) is looking really cute.
Just a question, on the boot it shows the Apple logo with a "progress bar" right below it. I was wondering if this will happen only a few times while it's maybe updating something or this will be showing forever? Does anybody know?
Thanks in advance.
I really love the look!!!!! My "Optimus Prime" (iMac) is looking really cute.
Just a question, on the boot it shows the Apple logo with a "progress bar" right below it. I was wondering if this will happen only a few times while it's maybe updating something or this will be showing forever? Does anybody know?
Thanks in advance.
As a happy Beta user on my work-issue 13-inch late 2010 MBA, I was more than happy to see I had a quick and easy install on my personal 2013 MBA (with the nice added benefit of handoff for that machine).
Meanwhile I found the Beta loaded machine had magically applied whatever was needed to go full 10.10 this morning, seemingly all by itself. No downloads needed except for the usual list of apps.
Everything's just working.
Meanwhile I found the Beta loaded machine had magically applied whatever was needed to go full 10.10 this morning, seemingly all by itself. No downloads needed except for the usual list of apps.
Everything's just working.
Only complaints I have is the FEEDBACK ASSISTANT is still there and My 2011 MBP boots up kind of slow with a HD in it.
But otherwise works great.
But otherwise works great.
Kids! I remember downloading windows updates over the old 9600 baud modem. Start it before you go to bed and hope it was done by morning.
My install would get to '0 seconds remaining', then fail with the message I posted earlier. I'm now back on my Mavericks install from this morning.
I'd formatted my SSD beforehand, so I was somewhat nervous, despite having backups. Time Machine saved my behind.
Good luck, my friend.
After coming back into the office about 5 hours after starting the update, I finally gave up and restarted my computer. I hadn't been able to open the log file to view progress, so I concluded it must be stuck.
After rebooting, once it got back to that page I opened the progress log file on the second monitor. Things went fine at that point.
My monitors now flicker terribly in Yosemite. It's so bad it makes my computer almost unusable. It's like my graphics card got replaced by one from 10 years ago. Any screen refresh makes the window flicker. For instance, each key I type in Chrome as I'm writing this post makes the whole Chrome window redraw (slowly). I get about 1fps in Google Earth, with terrible shearing. I really hope this goes away somehow.
I haven't installed Yosemite yet (possibly never will), so maybe I'm missing something, but have you never heard of Skype? Or FaceTime even?
Just installed Yosemite (had it download while I slept) and I have to say I like it. Not AMAZING, but it is a nice new look. Seems to run just fine on my mid-2010 13 macbook pro. Haven't had any problems, tho I don't really get some of the new features like handoff so I can't test them out . Still going thru stuff to see whats new.
. Still going thru stuff to see whats new.Hey,
I have a question regarding the compatibility between OS X Yosemite on my MacBook Pro (haven't installed it yet) and iOS 7 on my iPhone 4 (not compatible with iOS 8).
How does the update affect the "connection" between the MacBook Pro and iPhone 4 (iCloud, iMessages etc.)?
Thanks!
I have a question regarding the compatibility between OS X Yosemite on my MacBook Pro (haven't installed it yet) and iOS 7 on my iPhone 4 (not compatible with iOS 8).
How does the update affect the "connection" between the MacBook Pro and iPhone 4 (iCloud, iMessages etc.)?
Thanks!
Seems faster
I beta tested, and after doing my usual customizing (clear the dock background, change the trash can, put color icons back in the sidebar, use my preferred wallpaper) it's very much the computing environment I am accustomed to, but the system seems snappier, applications are loading and quitting faster, and no crashes so far. It does not have the sleep/wake bug that Mavericks has, in fact that process seems to have been changed significantly which is great.
I beta tested, and after doing my usual customizing (clear the dock background, change the trash can, put color icons back in the sidebar, use my preferred wallpaper) it's very much the computing environment I am accustomed to, but the system seems snappier, applications are loading and quitting faster, and no crashes so far. It does not have the sleep/wake bug that Mavericks has, in fact that process seems to have been changed significantly which is great.
If anyone else runs into this one, a reboot fixed it for me, or maybe it was just the time it took to finish whatever it was doing.
Are you saying everyone else knows its FUGLY?
Because most articles are about FEATURES. But, as Apple users know more than most, the user-interface ... the GUI, the look and feel ... is a very significant aspect to the way one uses a computer. And this is just appallingly bad. It's what one might expect from Microsoft. It's got Microsoft written all over it.
Waste of time ... now to get rid of it. Mavericks is far better.
Can Yosemite runs smoothly on 13inch Mid-2012 Macbook Pro? I just get it upgraded to 8G RAM
I am running it on a Mid 2010 15" MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM with no problems. Works great!!
There were plenty of screenshots available to you to preview prior to install. I don't think one can claim ignorance in that aspect.