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Updating at launch or waiting?
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I would think, that most people who are viewing this forum are not "normal" mac users. They are now already running Mavericks, and will probably be up to the latest release of Mavericks by the time it is released. Typically, the last beta/DP release ends up being the final release, despite apples warnings that it will not be possible to update to the final release over the DP releases....Im an update junkie. I always crave the newest releases, whether it has any benefit or not. :|
At first (during the first 3 DPs) I was definitely going to wait but after DP4 I have to say I'm very impressed so far at how much it improved in the 4th (all major bugs for me at least are squashed, a few minor ones remain) so I'm now leaning towards a day one install.
I'm too impatient to wait, even though I know I probably should wait, I'll be upgrading right away.
edit: is there a timeframe within the Fall time frame when Mavericks is rumored to be released? beginning, middle, end of fall?
edit: is there a timeframe within the Fall time frame when Mavericks is rumored to be released? beginning, middle, end of fall?
I have no desire to muck up my perfectly optimized MBPr. I'll gladly let others post their experiences here. I usually wait till .2 is out. If it gets good reviews then I've saved lots of time & headaches by waiting.
I'm thinking on October, along with iOS 7, iPhone 5S, MacPRO etccc
Or early september
The whole point of the Developer Preview is to allow devs to get their applications ready for the new OS by the time it is released.
Mind you, there are some companies, like Intuit and Fontlab, who don't update their code for more than six years and then complain when Apple remove support for temporary frameworks like Rosetta.
Some apps immediately, others can take months.
Waiting until 10.9.1 may be enough. I intend to await until I know all the applications I use (except for a few that don't matter that much to me) work fine under 10.9. I actually went from 10.7.5->10.8.4 when an application I used forced the issue. I expect to run into something a lot sooner with 10.9 that will force the issue so I'm not going to wait as long this time around.
I'm planning on updating day 1 because I have a retina that suffers the lag issue and when I run Mavericks on an external HD the lag is completely gone. Just waiting until release so more developers can prepare their software for Mavericks optimization.
It took me quite some time to upgrade from SL to Lion and from Lion to ML, but this one seems good to take. In this release Apple doesn't really remove big features and doesn't change a lot and improves a lot to make the system more stable and more responsive.
As stated earlier, most of the people on this thread are already running Mavericks one way or another. I have mine on a separate partition. If the GM runs well after a day of testing, I will install on my main partition.
For me, Mavericks has been great since Beta 4....
For me, Mavericks has been great since Beta 4....
I never install a .0 release; I prefer to wait for the inevitable bugs to be fixed. I usually wait for .1, sometimes .2 depending on how people are reporting issues.