New OS for Mac....have you updated?

Canajun wrote in post #16396535
I'm not as old but I was already working when Radio Shack's color computer came out.

I still have a Color Computer 3. It's been heavily modified, though. Repacked in a small tower with a SCSI interface and 80 MB (yeah, MB) hard drive, and a PC keyboard adapter connected to the serial port. I also replaced the 68B09E with a 63C09E microprocessor. It runs at a screaming fast 3 mHZ!

What's remarkable is that it can be run under emulation with MESS and it is so fast you cannot control it, so the developers provided a governor to slow it down.

gnome chompski wrote in post #16396512
how does your computer run with Mavericks installed? I have a late 2009 iMac, still on snow leopard.

I have not even used it yet to be honest. I also hve a 2012 mbp that Inuse most of the time. Hopefully will get to use it some this weekend and i will report back.

I installed Mavericks on my 2010 MBP and it works great, no problems at all.

So far Mavericks is running well (2012 13" non-Retina MacBook Pro). It actually seems a little snappier, and I see a faster start up time.

Note - I simply upgraded through the App store, and didn't do a clean install so my comparison may not really be apples to apples for Mavericks vs. Mountain Lion.

i did it. took 3 hours. it was my fault though. now that its on there it works great. i especially like that all of the tool bars show up on both monitors now.

Apparently, Pages is now crap. Took a lot of features out of it. I'm not going to be using it, that's for sure.

Tony-S wrote in post #16399281
Apparently, Pages is now crap. Took a lot of features out of it. I'm not going to be using it, that's for sure.

I don't use Pages, but is it similar to iBooks? Maybe Apple is trying to lure more people into using iBooks.

BTW I noticed my start up boot seems longer.

Canajun wrote in post #16399318
I don't use Pages, but is it similar to iBooks? Maybe Apple is trying to lure more people into using iBooks.

Pages is a document-centric text editing program. I use it for preparing all my letters, manuscripts and NIH grants. But now it is useless for the latter two.

Tony-S wrote in post #16399374
Pages is a document-centric text editing program. I use it for preparing all my letters, manuscripts and NIH grants. But now it is useless for the latter two.

sucks. I feel bad for you. sorry man

Installed Mavericks yesterday -- without a bootable backup, just a Time Machine backup -- and it runs cleanly.
Haven't tried the new Pages, but I'm not too worries about the changes since I got InDesign with my CC suite. (Not to start that debate...)

I just read this...WTF!?! >>>

Mavericks corrupts external hard drives!
There's one thread over at Western digitals forum, and one thread at apple discussions. Beware, mavericks kills some external hard drives. Lots of people using WD mybook studio ll have had their drives reset and lost all data.

https://discussions.ap​ple.com/message/234993​57#23499357
http://community.wd.co​m …ook-Studio-II/td-p/602387

Source:
http://forums.macrumor​s.com/showthread.php?t​=1660392

Sounds like folks do not have backups. Never a good plan for any computer, especially when doing upgrades of OS or major apps.

amoergosum wrote in post #16400274
I just read this...WTF!?! >>>

Source:
http://forums.macrumor​s.com/showthread.php?t​=1660392

wow that's pretty scary. I have two 3TB myBook myself. after reading some of the links. IMO it seems the issue is with either FireWire, WD software, or RAID. I'm glad none of it applies to my configuration.

on the other hand I've disconnected both WD's until someone from WD or Apple issues an update or acknowledge this problem.

too late to go back, probably cause more troublesthan what its worth.

Hen3Ry wrote in post #16395430
Complained too soon. The iPad is fixed. Duh. But on another front, I really, really dislike the interface. I'm going to turn 70 on my next birthday, and whoever it was that told Apple's software engineers to change the display's text to tiny and white on a gray background ought to be fired.

I changed the text on my iPhone to "Bold" and I'm really glad I did. It seems a little weird at first but once you get used to it, everything is much more readable. I hated the colors until I changed that.

That was fun

I backed my Mac Air up to Time Machine first. Good thing I did. Then I started the download/install, and went out for a bit. When I came back it had booted into the recovery drive; never a good sign. So I rebooted, and saw a struck-circle icon for about five seconds, then it rebooted back into the recovery drive.

So I had it restore from TM, which it spent the next hour or so doing, to a successful restore. When I restarted, I saw a struck-circle icon for about five seconds, thena struck-circle icon for about five seconds, then it rebooted back into the recovery drive. rebooted back into the recovery drive.

Hmmmm.

So I had the Recovery Assistant + Disk Assistant to try to refomat the partition. But it failed because it couldn't dismount the disk; it was running from that drive, which is where the recovery assistant lives, on its own little secret partition. And it couldn't erase it, either.

After several different types of resets, and general screwing around including Erase, Partition, etc, etc, every restart still showed a struck-circle icon for about five seconds, then rebooted back into the recovery drive.

So I messed around with the ML installer downloaded from the App store, used it to create an installer DVD, booted from it, and installed a fresh version of ML. Skipping the Time Machine step of installing apps or users, I tried to reboot from it, and saw a struck-circle icon for about five seconds, then it rebooted back into the recovery drive.

So I called AppleCare. Over the next several hours, various levels of tech support folks convinced themselves (on multiple callbacks - I was rarely on hold) that all the stuff I had already tried would't work, so the guy finally gave me a recovery assistant key combination that ensured that I would get a specific firmware upgrade when I installed over the internet.

Bingo. Up and running, finally.

Weird flaw that probably didn't happen to anyone else, but great tech support.