*** OS X Mavericks ***

I like Ibooks, but overall my 2 year old imac feels a lot slower, 16gb ram and a I7 2.8 its no slouch. Allthough I did put on another machine as a fresh install and it was good, the upgrade seems slower, time to have a cleanup of apps i no longer use see if that helps.
 
JHeaton said:
If you haven't already, go into System Preferences -> Mission Control and uncheck "Displays have separate Spaces". Should allow you to drag windows across multiple monitors.
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Didn't do that no. I've used my TM backup so on ML again, i was having far too many issues which were costing me time in work.

There's nothing wrong with ML imo, so I will stay there.
 
Hxc said:
Apple have seriously screwed up colour profiles on Mavericks, so it seems. I instantly noticed the whole OS has a completely different colouring; the dock is the most obvious - everything is darker and oversaturated. Yuck. Have seen some people complaining about sRGB profile support, too.
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I had noticed the change with the dock, but it seems to be slightly better than before for me. Using Safari more now as it is rather good :)
 
Roughneck said:
I like Ibooks, but overall my 2 year old imac feels a lot slower, 16gb ram and a I7 2.8 its no slouch. Allthough I did put on another machine as a fresh install and it was good, the upgrade seems slower, time to have a cleanup of apps i no longer use see if that helps.
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This has me concerned about upgrading my 2.5 GHz dual core i5 4GB (late 2012). I see that new ones like that are shipping with Mavericks, but that's a clean install. So upgrading instead of clean install results in lower performance?

I wonder if doing an upgrade via app store and then doing again a clean install via recovery would result in a speedy performing install of Mavericks. This is my first Mac, so I'm not too familiar with these options.
 
Installed this on my Macbook pro yesterday and i'm impressed, its a nice update. Ibooks and Maps work really well in OSX, I have found one small issue however between OSX and iOS: I updated a few of my calender appointments with locations which then synced to my iphone however only one appointment in London has a link to a location the rest only list an address with no link to maps, anyone else noticed this?
 
I think on balance that like Windows 8.1 it's perhaps right that Mavericks is free. I'm not sure I would have been altogether happy to have paid for it. Again like W8 is reminds me more of a service pack update.
 
Apple lose points for removing the dock hack, I don't like that faux 3D thing (the hack got rid of the 3D effect and just gave a thin line around the dock icons). Seems they made a mess of pinning on the side too.

Otherwise all seems ok.
 
There is a significant improvement in battery life with Mavericks. I was in a meeting today that lasted 4 hours and started at 91% power and left around 49% power. Prior to Mavericks I probably would have just made it and this was with it tethered to my iPhone to use 3G. Impressive improvement I felt.
 
Hxc said:
Apple have seriously screwed up colour profiles on Mavericks, so it seems. I instantly noticed the whole OS has a completely different colouring; the dock is the most obvious - everything is darker and oversaturated. Yuck. Have seen some people complaining about sRGB profile support, too.
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Is it not just because it's switched profiles?

I noticed when it first loaded up it had switched to a default one for my monitor, rather than the SRGB profile I'd previously been using in Mountain Lion.
 
The only issue I have is that damn menu bar on the second screen. I really hate it and can't find a way to disable it. I don't want my second screen to become the primary for spotlight and notification centre. I don't want a menu bar on the second screen at all, really don't see the point of it.
 
Feek said:
The only issue I have is that damn menu bar on the second screen. I really hate it and can't find a way to disable it. I don't want my second screen to become the primary for spotlight and notification centre. I don't want a menu bar on the second screen at all, really don't see the point of it.
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System pref > Mission Control > uncheck 'Displays have separate Spaces'

Log out/in.
 
Feek said:
The only issue I have is that damn menu bar on the second screen. I really hate it and can't find a way to disable it. I don't want my second screen to become the primary for spotlight and notification centre. I don't want a menu bar on the second screen at all, really don't see the point of it.
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uniQ said:
System pref > Mission Control > uncheck 'Displays have separate Spaces'

Log out/in.
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Feek said:
Tried that but haven't logged out and back in. I'll try tonight, thanks.
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Sorted now, thank you.
 
Feek said:
The only issue I have is that damn menu bar on the second screen. I really hate it and can't find a way to disable it. I don't want my second screen to become the primary for spotlight and notification centre. I don't want a menu bar on the second screen at all, really don't see the point of it.
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This was actually the one feature I didn't know Mavericks had, and was pleasantly surprised when I noticed it when booting up my Mac Pro at work with 3 monitors attached.

It was a royal PITA to having to move the mouse to another screen from which I was working on in order to access the application's menu bar.

It's a great feature.
 
Echo those thoughts. The new multiple displays is a god send and should have been like this a LONG time ago. Two 27" monitors are actually a hell of a lot more productive now with this simple "fix".
 
Only issue Ive had with Mavericks is that Safari doesn't get on well with betfair.com, it doesn't crash it as such, just periodically throws up a huge error message window full of stuff I have no idea what it means :>

Ill use chrome for my trading until its sorted, no real issue to worry about. Minor niggle.
 
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