Free MAC Update Yosemite

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Richyboy

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3,739 posts

216 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Wow! Looks better, seems faster and just when I was thinking of leaving apple after trying a oneplus one. Breathed new live into my old macbook air.

audi321

5,156 posts

212 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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I'm someone who had an extremely bad experience trying to install Mavericks last year, so am still on 10.8.5.

I'm firmly in the camp of 'if it ain't broke don't try to fix it'. So can you sell me the benefits of upgrading my MBA?

Richyboy

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3,739 posts

216 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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I guess I haven't used it long enough to comment on whether one should upgrade, can only give my immediate thoughts - its great lol. From my experience with updating my iPhone and having a useless phone for my everyday use, you might want to air on the side of caution if your inclined that way.

First issue: Theres no button on safari for full screen or at least I can't find it, had to use the key combination to achieve it.

Edited by Richyboy on Friday 17th October 10:56

Phunk

1,972 posts

170 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Tried to install this, left it running overnight. Screensaver came on and wouldn't go off.

I can now log into the computer but as it's about to boot to the main screen it just goes black and displays the spinning ball.

Currently attempting a fresh install of the whole system.

Pain in the arse!

lexham

139 posts

244 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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It looks and feels much more modern - that flat iOS8 design translates well to a laptop.

Maildrop is already proving useful - if an attachment is too big for Gmail or whatever mail tool you use, its simply a transparent upload to the cloud and the recipient gets a link to download.
Seamless and zero setup.

It's evolutionary, but no major downsides so far.


S13_Alan

1,324 posts

242 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Richyboy said:
First issue: Theres no button on safari for full screen or at least I can't find it, had to use the key combination to achieve it.
Does the green button not do it? It's now supposed to, but not tried, I will be updating mine when I get home.

Read through the Ars review of it this morning and all seems good to me (full screen button moving is mentioned in it).

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/os-x-10-10/

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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S13_Alan said:
Richyboy said:
First issue: Theres no button on safari for full screen or at least I can't find it, had to use the key combination to achieve it.
Does the green button not do it? It's now supposed to, but not tried, I will be updating mine when I get home.

Read through the Ars review of it this morning and all seems good to me (full screen button moving is mentioned in it).

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/os-x-10-10/
Green button does do it, its top left hand corner right underneath "Safari"

Fas1975

1,777 posts

163 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Just finished upgrading. Very smooth. Looking. I'm loving the new notifications update which now syncs to my iPhone. Does anyone know how the new continuity functions works? The videos I've seen on youtube are all based on Beta where continuity wasn't enabled.

Durzel

12,232 posts

167 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Anyone know if it's possible to download this to save on a USB stick or something? The download is 5.16GB and my internet is crap at home.

Evil Jack

1,619 posts

227 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Durzel said:
Anyone know if it's possible to download this to save on a USB stick or something? The download is 5.16GB and my internet is crap at home.
Fairly easy:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/how-to-make-y...

Richyboy

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3,739 posts

216 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Pickled said:
Green button does do it, its top left hand corner right underneath "Safari"
Thanks.

Durzel

12,232 posts

167 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Thanks!

Installed seamlessly on my iMac (unlike Mavericks). Looks nice enough, haven't really scratched the surface of it all yet.

It still grates that Apple swallowed up AuthenTec and killed support for my fingerprint reader in Mavericks, so I'm expecting something else to be inexplicably broken.

Zod

35,295 posts

257 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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I've been beta testing it on my iMac and, despite a few hiccups (as you'd expect with betas), have liked it a lot. I installed the release version last night on my mid-2011 iMac and late 2009 MacBook Pro. No issues.

qube_TA

8,402 posts

244 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Tried it on one machine, no issues, like the 'hand off' feature with the iPhone.

Unsure on the new design, I think I'll get used to it.

Will wait a bit before upgrading my main machines, bound to be software issues, that said I had very issue incompatibility issues when 10.9 came out.


Psychobert

6,316 posts

255 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Zod said:
I've been beta testing it on my iMac and, despite a few hiccups (as you'd expect with betas), have liked it a lot. I installed the release version last night on my mid-2011 iMac and late 2009 MacBook Pro. No issues.
Same here. Last beta runs very smoothly on a 2008 imac and I'm downloading the full update in the background at the moment. Considering moving the laptop to Yosemite too as I can see some advantages in everything running the same system. I'd originally played with the beta before planning to do a full wipe of the disk and reinstalling from the ground up expecting it to kill an older machine, (see iOS 8 issues on older phones), but its actually running very well so far.

pavka007

522 posts

128 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Installed without a single issue on 2008 24" iMac, downloaded for about 10 min and the installation took another 20 min. So far the only big and annoying (for me) difference is the BRIGHT RED Itunes icon and of course the new iTunes interface, why Apple keep changing it with every new update???
Yahoo messenger not supported, Aperture not supported... (obviously will need new versions)

On a positive side, my screen looks like full HD now...I don't know what it is exactly but I was watching the new episode (04) of the Blacklist before the installation and when I started it again WOW, much more sharp and defined colours and the clarity is much, much better.
As I've mentioned I don't know what it is but it's MUCH better, like having a new screen smile
For a 2008 machine is simply WOW.

I will give more updates in a few days when I had the chance to play around with all my apps etc.

Otispunkmeyer

12,557 posts

154 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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I am unsure whether to install or not. As it stands my current install of Mac OS really dates right back to when they first introduced time machine. Even though I have bought new machines since then, I have loaded up from time machine so I can carry on where I left off. When I got my current Mac I think they were on Snow-Leopard, maybe the one after and I have upgraded every year. So thats a lot of OS's patched over the top of each other. I am just worried its going to be a bit messed up. There are already odd things about the machine to do with sleeping/hibernating.

I may just wait until my PhD is done and I don't have to rely on the computer anymore. Then save all the things I want, make a list of all the programs I want to keep then start a fresh. I will do this at the same time as swapping out the CD drive for one of those caddys to hold an SSD. SSD to boot from and have some programs installed. Original 1 TB HDD to just hold info (movies, photos etc).

That upgrade should extend its life a bit further. Cheaper than buying a new computer!

jmorgan

36,010 posts

283 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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No problem here. Time machine showing what it should, MS Office working. Only had to re instal BIONC.

Edit. Dasha nd darn it, CCCloner needs updating to version 4, at a cost.

Edited by jmorgan on Friday 17th October 17:41

Bikerjon

2,202 posts

160 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Safari crashed twice. Like the new fonts in the menus etc but really not sold on the "flat" icons - but that's just the way everything is heading I guess. Love receiving iphone calls on my Mac, that novelty will take a while to wear off!

Altrezia

8,517 posts

210 months

Friday 17th October 2014
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Safari is ste anyway, so no big deal. I have no idea why people use it.