Mac OS X Mavericks Thread
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Well here it is. The official thread to discuss anything related to the upcoming OS X Mavericks.
So who here will be upgrading when it does come out? I'll be waiting until any known problems are sorted out and then I'll decide whether to upgrade or not.
So who here will be upgrading when it does come out? I'll be waiting until any known problems are sorted out and then I'll decide whether to upgrade or not.
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I'm thinking about replacing my 15" MacBook Pro so it could be that is how I get 10.9.
But isn't one of the major selling points of Apple gear that "it just works"
Apple products have known problems, not bugs. Microsoft products have bugs and lots of them
It is indeed
Not a lot interesting to me in this release. The improved OpenGL support and removal of Skeuomorphic design elements are pretty much it.
My Late 2006 iMac (still working pretty well, for 7 years old!) certainly won't take Mavericks. It does look like a nice update, however.
unfortunately my Mac is old and won't take anything after Lion
If I could, I would have got it on day one
The iMac will probably get updated too once I decide to jump in, but there's less in Mavericks that will make any real difference to me on that machine.
My Macbook Pro still runs SL as well and it will continue to run that OS until it snuffs it. As long as it does what I want it to do I see no reason to upgrade. I think Macs last longer than PCs. I've had my Macbook Pro three years and it still runs OSX and Windows 7 well. I put another 4GB RAM into it. A PC of the same era would probably have slowed down or even snuffed it altogether.
The fitted SSD also means it is faster than new. I have an Acer from the same year. Cheap when new. Has a semi broken hinge and is slow but very usable.(I always covert my music CDs with it).No doubt it will be going to faster Linux when XP becomes high risk next year.
Not really been the case for many years now. After all they're both built with the same components these days.
I picked up a 2007 refurb Macbook in early 2008 and ran it for around 3 years before selling it on (it still runs fine today).
My laptop today is a 2006 refurb Thinkpad X61 that i picked up for £100 a couple of years ago. Very similar specs to the Macbook (slightly slower processor and 4:3 screen). Spent another £120 on new battery, SSD, and 4GB of RAM and it ran much faster than the Macbook (even ran OS X on it for a while). Still working perfectly.
Seems that Apple waited until the warranties have run out to do a silent recall. The larger Samsung ones are fine.
There is no mention of them writing to anyone, and obviously they have known for a long while now they are liable to fail.
It even seems they even released a placebo May firmware update for it which they then withdrew.
Oh? What's that about? I have a 128GB Macbook Air from 2012 (if that's the ones with the dodgy SSDs). Does that mean it needs replacing?
Check here. http://www.apple.com/support/macbookair-flashdrive/
They use a SandForce controller which even at launch time, AnanTech said ". Reliability, especially when taking SandForce's track record into account, is questionable". I imagine Sandforce, a relatively new California tech company sweetened the deal for Apple and Toshiba.
I'm sure you can test on-line whether yours is one of them and unless Apple commissioned the drive themselves I imagine it will affect not just Apple.