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My 15" rMBP running Mavericks randomly reboots on occasion, and to this day still requires me to manually disable / enable WiFi almost every time I open the lid

by wting 12y ago

My 15" rMBP running Mavericks randomly reboots on occasion, and to this day still requires me to manually disable / enable WiFi almost every time I open the lid. Meanwhile Homebrew is a poor substitute for aptitude and PPAs, multi-monitor support is relatively poor (xmonad excels here), and the Apple keyboard is missing a bunch of keys I use on a regular basis.

pling 12y ago
Same with mine and audio. coreaudiod just shits itself 5 times a day. I'm now on Debian 7 with XFCE on an old Think Pad. Life is better here.
coob 12y ago
There's a fix for the Wifi issue - trashing your bluetooth prefs. Solved it for me: http://www.imore.com/how-fix-mavericks-wi-fi-zapping-bluetooth http://www.imore.com/how-fix-mavericks-wi-fi-zapping-bluetoo...
- untog 12y ago
  That's still awful, though. Why should I have to go to imore.com to fix an issue in my OS? This has been in OSX since launch and Apple hasn't fixed it. Mad.
- wting 12y ago
  Thanks! I've tried finding a solution multiple times but I guess my Google-fu wasn't up to the task.
untog 12y ago
There was a time, not that long ago, when I saw a kernel panic maybe once in a year at most. These days I see them every few weeks.
kyle_t 12y ago
This. People sing to the heavens of how stable OSX is and how it just works. I've had as many if not more issues than with my Windows 7 Samsung laptop. Wifi constantly needs manually disabling/enabling, Bluetooth Audio crashes are common, I average one full system crash per month, display settings reset themselves magically and Finder is infuriating. I should be keeping a log of all the issues I have. This is on a 2014 Macbook Pro.
- mannkind 12y ago
  Ah, the mythical 2014 Macbook Pro...
- capedape 12y ago
  Latest Macbook Pro here and have that same WIFI issue. I still have 5 year old Lenovo with windows 7 on it that is just as, if not more, stable than the Mac. On Mac things like Alfred (probably will drop this for the new spotlight), better touch tool, some capabilities like ability to swap USB MIDI controllers without restarting OS are cool. Honestly though, performance wise there isn't that much difference between my Mac and Win Machines and being in programs full screen most of the day I notice much difference at all. The really flexible information moving things I've grown accustomed to on Win seem a bit crippled on Mac because of lack of a filesystem.
raverbashing 12y ago
Yeah, unfortunately Mavericks is really bad I'm back on 10.8.5 and not in a rush to upgrade again (because Mavericks crapped itself and I had to restore from Time Machine)

by wting 12y ago

pling 12y ago

Same with mine and audio. coreaudiod just shits itself 5 times a day. I'm now on Debian 7 with XFCE on an old Think Pad. Life is better here.

coob 12y ago

There's a fix for the Wifi issue - trashing your bluetooth prefs. Solved it for me: http://www.imore.com/how-fix-mavericks-wi-fi-zapping-bluetooth http://www.imore.com/how-fix-mavericks-wi-fi-zapping-bluetoo...

untog 12y ago
That's still awful, though. Why should I have to go to imore.com to fix an issue in my OS? This has been in OSX since launch and Apple hasn't fixed it. Mad.
wting 12y ago
Thanks! I've tried finding a solution multiple times but I guess my Google-fu wasn't up to the task.

untog 12y ago

There was a time, not that long ago, when I saw a kernel panic maybe once in a year at most. These days I see them every few weeks.

kyle_t 12y ago

This. People sing to the heavens of how stable OSX is and how it just works. I've had as many if not more issues than with my Windows 7 Samsung laptop. Wifi constantly needs manually disabling/enabling, Bluetooth Audio crashes are common, I average one full system crash per month, display settings reset themselves magically and Finder is infuriating. I should be keeping a log of all the issues I have. This is on a 2014 Macbook Pro.

mannkind 12y ago
Ah, the mythical 2014 Macbook Pro...
capedape 12y ago
Latest Macbook Pro here and have that same WIFI issue. I still have 5 year old Lenovo with windows 7 on it that is just as, if not more, stable than the Mac. On Mac things like Alfred (probably will drop this for the new spotlight), better touch tool, some capabilities like ability to swap USB MIDI controllers without restarting OS are cool. Honestly though, performance wise there isn't that much difference between my Mac and Win Machines and being in programs full screen most of the day I notice much difference at all. The really flexible information moving things I've grown accustomed to on Win seem a bit crippled on Mac because of lack of a filesystem.

raverbashing 12y ago

Yeah, unfortunately Mavericks is really bad I'm back on 10.8.5 and not in a rush to upgrade again (because Mavericks crapped itself and I had to restore from Time Machine)