OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

Post by jmcdowell » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 1:30 PM UTC

Stubb wrote: post #168

l33tfr4gg3r wrote: post #160

I'm on a 2013 MBP and I upgraded to Yosemite yesterday. It was a textbook upgrade for me - zero hassle and everything works just as it should (so far anyway). A couple of quirks I've noticed vs. Mavericks is that a) the animations seem to stutter sometimes - I almost never had that with Mavericks. Perhaps since this is 10.10.0 that's to be expected but hope they fix that to buttery smooth in the performance update do…

Probably real smooth due to the widespread beta and Yosemite being almost entirely visual tweaks and better integration with iOS devices. Those things shouldn't cause trouble. Apple seems to have given up on core upgrades addressing performance, the ancient filesystem, and needs of power users after 10.6. And there’s still stuff that I could do on a NeXT in the early ‘90s that OS X can’t do.

Post by switch007 » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 1:47 PM UTC

vph wrote: post #126

sfaruque wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious, why should I delete /usr/local/Cellars?

The reason that Yosemite/Mavericks stall for a long time (although they inform users wrongly that there would be few minutes left, causing panic) is due to the copying and moving things in /usr/local/. If you have a huge /usr/local, it will take hours. Chances are you will need to remove /usr/local/Cellars and reinstall home-brew anyway. So, removing it first will save you some time.

Post by switch007 » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 1:52 PM UTC

TillE wrote: post #161

deepforg wrote: post #155

I can accept almost all of the UI changes but these horrible blue folders.

As someone else suggested, they seriously look like something out of an old version of KDE.

Post by saturdaysaint » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 1:54 PM UTC

comex wrote: post #117

sxates wrote: post #2

What's missing here for me is some kind of performance evaluation. If I upgrade my 2011 MBA from Mavericks to Yosemite, should I expect any change in performance, for better or worse? Did the power management change in any significant way? Apple's mobile OSs have a way of obsoleting older hardware. I'm curious to know if their desktop OSs are trending that way as well, or if they're making performance gains instead.

I've had serious performance issues with Yosemite. For one, dragging around windows became extremely janky; this appears to be caused by the transparency (and the limitations of my first-generation Retina MBP), as the option to disable it fixes the jank. For another, opening a new tab in Safari started lagging about a full second before I could start typing in the address bar, which is a ridiculous amount of time com…

Post by jeremymcanally » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:09 PM UTC

bbulkow wrote: post #179

smutticus wrote: post #6

None of these reiews answer the one question I always want answered; will this cause my MBP to crash more often than 10.8.5? I have all the features I need, I want fewer GPU panics. I know these reviewers cannot answer this question, I just want to point out that it's the only relevant question for me. Given Apple's track record, this release will most likely cause my MBP to crash more often, but I want data on that.…

I have a mid-2012 rMBP. I had terrible crashing problems - twice a day. Worse than any PC I ever had. I had to take it in. And pay $550. Even though it's clearly a common problem, if not a design problem, something similar. Go check out the big apple support log on the problem. I lost two weeks of productivity, because they failed to fix it the first time (it got worse). If you have GPU panics, and you don't get your…