by yapcguy on 10/12/2013, 4:29:27 PM
by Bvalmont on 10/12/2013, 1:16:20 PM
Been on Mavericks for about a good week now. Was pretty much a painless move, the only problem I had was that at this moment After Effects CC is unsupported.
It's a real tangible performance boost though. Feels extremely snappy on my Retina Macbook Pro. Scrolling is faster and I went from 2,5 hours of battery life to 4,5 !
by kalleboo on 10/12/2013, 2:20:11 PM
Usual caveats apply about making sure the software you depend on is compatible before updating. Notably, Adobe products are having a lot of issues (Photoshop: Save As is broken, keyboard shortcuts break if you have a non-US keyboard, and I've heard the Creative Cloud installer doesn't work at all).
by spullara on 10/12/2013, 5:36:01 PM
The Activity Monitor has been significantly enhanced and includes a page that tells you what software is using the most energy. That should help people get more battery life out of their systems as well.
by k-mcgrady on 10/12/2013, 6:10:12 PM
When I upgraded Windows machines I always went with a complete fresh install. Since switching to MAc I've always just run the upgrade.
What do people on HN recommend? Using this technique to do a complete reinstall, or upgrading?
by ics on 10/12/2013, 1:50:48 PM
Those running Mavericks and experiencing significantly improved average battery life: what machines are you using and how old are they?
by rsynnott on 10/12/2013, 4:34:41 PM
Does anyone happen to know whether Mavericks installs or can run Apple Java 6? For a variety of reasons, I don't want to go to 7 just yet (and Oracle doesn't ship a 6 JDK for MacOS).
by doe88 on 10/12/2013, 2:05:47 PM
I don't know if it's related to their improvements on battery life but when my Mac mini goes to sleep it breaks my ssh sessions in my iTerm2 terminal it's annoying. I'm wondering if there is a way to maintain my connections alive?
by ancarda on 10/12/2013, 3:07:28 PM
Does anyone know when the public release (Mac App Store) will be available?
by casperc on 10/12/2013, 2:33:59 PM
I'm looking at their App Nap functionality and I am wondering how it will affect applications that do background work. It looks to be on by default unless expressly turned off by the app. Does it apply to all processes or what is their definition of an app? I wouldn't want just anything to be suspended when I don't have it on my screen (any work that I started and am expecting to continue in the background basically).
by terhechte on 10/12/2013, 1:31:46 PM
I've updated to Mavericks about a week ago, just before attending a conference, and I've had a fair share of problems, though it seems that (based on Google Searches) I'm in the minority with the main issue: I can't use tethering with my iPhone anymore. Wireless or wired tethering will setup just fine, and I can even ping hosts on the internet, but domain name resolution fails. I've tried all kinds of things (like adding the 8.8.8.8 server, or running Linux in a VM to see if it works fine in there) but somehow as soon as I am tethered, my Macbook Air can't resolve domain names anymore and using the internet is effectively useless. The other issue that I've had is that the system froze when I connected it via thunderbolt to a beamer.
However, apart from that I'm getting longer battery life (from ~3 hours up to ~4.5 hours) and I like the OS. I guess bugs as the above are normal with OSX point releases. I still remember the pain when I ran Leopard.
by nailer on 10/13/2013, 10:34:10 AM
This article is unnecessary for most users.
Open the .dmg, drag the install .app into /Applications and run it from there. The upgrade works fine.
by idoescompooters on 10/12/2013, 5:48:14 PM
What is the difference between the GM version and the App store released one?
by jokoon on 10/12/2013, 7:20:10 PM
can't believe modern OSes can't run properly with 2GB of RAM. In the 90s we certainly didn't have the same standard.
by joezydeco on 10/12/2013, 2:38:40 PM
Can anyone with an iMac (and not a notebook) comment on how Mavericks performs there?
I've got a 2008 iMac 2.8 dual-core that I thought was getting pretty long in the tooth, but I'm thinking it's just the 4GB ram that's holding it back now. I can't add any more RAM and Mountain Lion just draaaggggss on it.
by jawngee on 10/12/2013, 3:59:41 PM
Anyone notice how slow the iOS simulator is when running apps on the 6.1 simulator?
by kevinxucs on 10/13/2013, 7:35:22 PM
Wow, such a one-week-late news.
Does anyone know if the memory swap issues[1], which plague Lion and Mountain Lion, have been fixed?
[1] You could have 20GB of hard disk space free, but use XCode, Firefox and a few other apps, and soon you're down to 10MB and you get the dreaded "Your Mac is running out of disk space" dialog and you have to force quit all your apps, and type "purge" into a Terminal in a desperate attempt to get the swap released...