Mac folk

[Ritterskoop]

I just installed Yosemite (waited several months since it was released because getting it first-off without being paid as a beta user is just frustrating).

Very slow at first but my memory pressure thingy is in the green. I am thinking it is just re=learning how to draw things in the browsers and such and will improve.

I have 2 MB of RAM which was plenty before - I don't play games except a few browser-based flash and java card games. Nothing memory-chewing.

What have been your experiences with Yosemite?

[Ritterskoop]

Stuff is better today. It just needed to learn to redraw a few things, I guess. Also I turned off some mail options that had it querying things constantly, though that was an early problem for godaddy mail users, which I'm not.

[danielh41]

I hope you meant 2 GB of RAM when you typed 2 MB.

[ToLiveIsToFly]

I just installed Yosemite (waited several months since it was released because getting it first-off without being paid as a beta user is just frustrating).

Very slow at first but my memory pressure thingy is in the green. I am thinking it is just re=learning how to draw things in the browsers and such and will improve.

I have 2 MB of RAM which was plenty before - I don't play games except a few browser-based flash and java card games. Nothing memory-chewing.

What have been your experiences with Yosemite?

I'm having no problems with Yosemite on a late-2013 MBP, but I'm rocking 8GB.
Last macbook, upgrading from mountain lion to mavericks was a nighmare. This has been fine.
But I've also learned to do a TM backup, do a clean install, and then restore from the backup since then.

[Jeemie]

Wow- 2 GB RAM?

I have 4- for my old Mac from 2004.

You need more RAM, Skoop.

[Ritterskoop]

Jeemie, that was my first thought, but I have studied it a good bit, and for what I use this (nothing intensive) and since the pressure gauge stays in the green, I'm going to stick with the 2 GB for now. Things have improved a lot since last night when I first got started.

I buy a rebuilt mini for a hundred bucks off the retail price, so about $450. That's acceptable every 4-5 years, to our household, anyway.

[Jim Everett]

You need more RAM, Skoop.

You rang?

[goongas]

Yosemite is ok for me. It boots up a lot slower than Mavericks did on both my old iMac and my new Macbook Pro. It is a little better (spotlight is better), but otherwise I don't notice many significant differences.

[bazodee]

I upgraded to Yosemite from Snow Leopard two months ago. Avoided Mavericks entirely.

Concur with the prevailing opinion here. It takes sooooooo much longer to boot up.

[Ritterskoop]

I went from 2GB to 8GB today and things are indeed much better. I was on the phone with an Apple tech last night about the Mail* and after we were done with that I asked about slowness since Yosemite, and he said 2GB was not really enough and RAM is cheap, which it is. So here we are.

*I've had Mail connection issues a few times over the past few years, as have some others. Usually I can get it going again by re-inputting the passwords and sever info and port, but this time my roommate's POP server just would not connect. So the tech walked me through deleting the account and rebuilding it, which is the only true way to fix this. Not too hard and I feel good about doing it myself if it happens again. For as little trouble as Macs have been all these years, I don't mind this - it is an attempt at security, which is always good.