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OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

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Re: OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

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pbreit wrote: post #9
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.…

Doubt you're going to see much about crashing since I presume that most MBP owners, like myself, never experience crashes.

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Re: OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

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Post by stephenr »

Osmium wrote: post #190

Somebody asked in another thread about Yosemite's new Hypervisor: "Hypervisor (Hypervisor.framework). The Hypervisor framework allows virtualization vendors to build virtualization solutions on top of OS X without needing to deploy third-party kernel extensions (KEXTs). Included is a lightweight hypervisor that enables virtualization of the host CPUs." Any news on if anyone is actually using this yet? Stability matte…

I would love to see a basic solution built on this - my major use case is headless Debian machines so the constant development of windows features in parallels and VMware are pretty pointless for me.

I would guess this is a way to allow a VM app to be distributed via the existing App Store rules

Re: OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

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Post by dandruffhead »

zwily wrote: post #31
cvalentin wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In using the beta, I haven't noticed any actual performance/battery difference between the two. Honestly, when I first installed it the first thing I noticed was the lack of sound when changing the volume.

Heh, me too - you can turn it back on in System Preferences though. It's a new sound effect.

Do you know exactly where? I couldn't find it.

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Post by atonse »

Cymen wrote: post #142
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.…

The only way I can keep my MBP retina happy when using it with an external Thunderbolt display is: 1) before plugging into display, open lid and wait for login screen to appear 2) before unplugging display, open lid and wait for laptop screen to turn on (normally I keep my laptop closed when connected to the display) If I deviate from this the laptop crashes or goes into some odd state.

I do EXACTLY this to avoid my laptop acting weird when I take it home/bring it to work.

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Post by mmastrac »

cake wrote: post #140
mmastrac wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was it the Displaylink Dual-DVI adapter? Ugh, that was broken for quite a few versions for 2011ish-era devices as soon as Mavericks came out. It took them a few versions to actually fix that up, almost as if they hadn't noticed it was broken. I'm tempted to try a test install separate from my regular install after getting burned on that last time.

I have a Displayport DVI adapter and that thing never works as intended. Sometimes it won't detect the screen, so I have to unplug and plug it back again. If the screen is off the Macbook thinks there's still a second screen... They really botched that thing.

I'm tempted to build a little Arduino thing that measures the current to see if it's active and power cycle it. I ended up plugging it into a little USB extension cable so that I could easily plus and unplug it to reset it -- most of the time this will fix the display. It seems to be sleep mode that really messes it up.

Re: OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

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Post by jayseeg »

alantinard wrote: post #196
qqz wrote: post #72

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Same here, on a 2012 Air. Performance is great but I've noticed a couple Safari crashes/freezes. Finder crashed once I think. Also had trouble with Dark Mode+Reduce Transparency, but those are just beta issues and since GM1 the only issue has been the weird black corners of the volume popup.

I wish they would support even older hardware, my 2008 mac mini is just crying for an update.

10 year backward compatibility crippled MS. I'm not sure where the line is, but 6 years seems pretty old too.

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Post by Moto7451 »

girvo wrote: post #92
FraaJad wrote: post #84

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20 terminal windows? Is there any reason you are not using screen/tmux?

Eh, why bother when iTerm2 gives me the same splitting and tab features :)

iTerm2's Tmux integration (native tabs and panes backed by a tmux session) lets you have your cake and eat it too it's my standard dev flow for remote or local work. Just add -CC when firing up tmux within iTerm2.

Re: OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

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Post by matt-attack »

I find the new Spotlight to be quite painful. Apple again, makes design choices not based on improving the quality but just because they feel they need to keep changing things.

They've done two things wrong with Spotlight. By moving it down from the top of the screen, that immediately reduces the number of results that can be seen. Then if that wasn't enough they further limit the quantity of visible results by not allowing results to flow to the bottom of the screen. A double whammy if you will.

I can live with a slightly slower experience (yes, my indexing is done) but reducing the result count for absolutely no good reason is unacceptable.

And yes, I know I can scroll down.

Edit: Oh and while I'm complaining, please tell me which one is selected: http://i.imgur.com/Szj3Yag.png

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