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No I'm not 10 but thank you for asking. My team has a mix of MacBook Pros ranging from 2011-2014 - everyone has daily - yes daily problems with Yosemite. I ha

by mrmondo 12y ago

No I'm not 10 but thank you for asking. My team has a mix of MacBook Pros ranging from 2011-2014 - everyone has daily - yes daily problems with Yosemite. I have never had an OS crash and lock up as much as I've seen in Yosemite. - Beach balls are a daily occurrence. - Finder crashing when switching from wired to wireless. - iTunes refusing to launch for seemingly no reason. - Failure to map network drives until finder is force killed. - Poor wireless performance. - Corrupt boot process. - Excessive CPU usage from window server service.

threeseed 12y ago
We also have a team of Macs. Not once have I seen any of those issues. My suggestion would be to create a new user and migrate your data across. I suspect most of the issues with OSX are to do with their migration of preferences between releases.
- FireBeyond 12y ago
  You can suspect that but you'd be wrong. My early 2013 15" rM P experiences most of the issues the above poster describes. It also experiences graphics subsystem freezes even when the only app I have open is iTerm, requiring a power button reboot. Windows Server service can often be seen chewing 30% or more CPU, Wifi often needs to be turned off and on, while in range of my router (latest gen/firmware Express and Extreme). Every day I think I should go back to 10.9, but I'm worried for the day, if not already, that Apple refuses to back port security fixes (which may even have happened, recently). Especially a worry for me since I am involved in healthcare in my laptop.
  - threeseed 12y ago
    Firstly I would try creating a new account and seeing if the issues persist. Also one trick is running "sudo fs_usage". Often misbehaved processes that are hammering the CPU are also doing the disk as well e.g. outputting lots of Console logs.
    - ghshephard 12y ago
      Most of those issues sound OS related. The author is presumably technologically mature enough to check activity monitor - indeed, they probably have to live in it to kill their errant processes.
      - threeseed 12y ago
        fs_usage shows individuals calls to the filesystem. This information is not accessible from Activity Monitor.
        ghshephard 12y ago
        Activity monitor shows you Disk, Network, and CPU activity, and is a good first place to see if anything is going awry when your system is acting up. I'm interested in how you might use fs_usage? It actually is a new utility to me, and when I turn it with fs_usage -e iTerm - I get a lot of activity, on a basically idle system. (At least one that Activity Monitor/ioStat shows as idle).
    - FireBeyond 12y ago
      Except that it happens with a completely fresh install. I should note that my iMac (2014 i7) does not exhibit these issues.
- veidr 12y ago
  We have 60 Macs (Mac Pros, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs) purchased from 2011-2015. We see all the problems mrmondo mentioned except the iTunes one (we don't use iTunes). The true deal breakers for us, though, is the terrible Wi-Fi performance. The Macs get spurious Wi-Fi failures; all Windows, Android, and iOS devices work fine on all our wireless networks. As a result, about 45 of our Macs now run Windows 7 or 8. That means the users get a worse UI and not nearly so much functionality built in -- with the tradeoff being that the machines run predictably and reliably. It seems everybody now has their "back in my day..." OS X version when things were stable; for me 10.7 was the last good version. All our problems started with 10.8, and things have been going downhill since then.

by mrmondo 12y ago

threeseed 12y ago

We also have a team of Macs. Not once have I seen any of those issues. My suggestion would be to create a new user and migrate your data across. I suspect most of the issues with OSX are to do with their migration of preferences between releases.

FireBeyond 12y ago
You can suspect that but you'd be wrong. My early 2013 15" rM P experiences most of the issues the above poster describes. It also experiences graphics subsystem freezes even when the only app I have open is iTerm, requiring a power button reboot. Windows Server service can often be seen chewing 30% or more CPU, Wifi often needs to be turned off and on, while in range of my router (latest gen/firmware Express and Extreme). Every day I think I should go back to 10.9, but I'm worried for the day, if not already, that Apple refuses to back port security fixes (which may even have happened, recently). Especially a worry for me since I am involved in healthcare in my laptop.
- threeseed 12y ago
  Firstly I would try creating a new account and seeing if the issues persist. Also one trick is running "sudo fs_usage". Often misbehaved processes that are hammering the CPU are also doing the disk as well e.g. outputting lots of Console logs.
  - ghshephard 12y ago
    Most of those issues sound OS related. The author is presumably technologically mature enough to check activity monitor - indeed, they probably have to live in it to kill their errant processes.
    - threeseed 12y ago
      fs_usage shows individuals calls to the filesystem. This information is not accessible from Activity Monitor.
      - ghshephard 12y ago
        Activity monitor shows you Disk, Network, and CPU activity, and is a good first place to see if anything is going awry when your system is acting up. I'm interested in how you might use fs_usage? It actually is a new utility to me, and when I turn it with fs_usage -e iTerm - I get a lot of activity, on a basically idle system. (At least one that Activity Monitor/ioStat shows as idle).
  - FireBeyond 12y ago
    Except that it happens with a completely fresh install. I should note that my iMac (2014 i7) does not exhibit these issues.
veidr 12y ago
We have 60 Macs (Mac Pros, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs) purchased from 2011-2015. We see all the problems mrmondo mentioned except the iTunes one (we don't use iTunes). The true deal breakers for us, though, is the terrible Wi-Fi performance. The Macs get spurious Wi-Fi failures; all Windows, Android, and iOS devices work fine on all our wireless networks. As a result, about 45 of our Macs now run Windows 7 or 8. That means the users get a worse UI and not nearly so much functionality built in -- with the tradeoff being that the machines run predictably and reliably. It seems everybody now has their "back in my day..." OS X version when things were stable; for me 10.7 was the last good version. All our problems started with 10.8, and things have been going downhill since then.