OSX Yosemite

MagicBoy · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:23

The Mac is likely background processing, e.g. Spotlight indexing. Give it a few hours to settle down before making judgements on performance.

JGBR said:
menus really do look awful on a normal monitor

Standard vs Retina display :

I've blown the standard one up to 200% (using resize in Preview) for as near a straight comparison as you'll get

Raymond Lin · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:29

I still can't figure what is my volume name, is it "Macintosh HD"?

MagicBoy · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:31

Yep.

It's *nix, so filenames are case specific in case you are not aware.

Raymond Lin · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:33

Thanks, it's doing something...

Raymond Lin · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:40

I love you guys !!! i am back !!! and PHEW !! I design all my wedding albums on here...I just finished one and about to send it off and this happened. I would have had to do it all again otherwise.

MagicBoy · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:40

Dare I ask what you're messing with kernel extensions for?

JGBR · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:40

I don't know what can be done about the blurry menus,

I'm not sure buying a 4K monitor would solve it. It seems a complete oversight on apples part.

Raymond Lin · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:43

MagicBoy said:
Dare I ask what you're messing with kernel extensions for?

TRIM Enabler "killed" my mbp, it wouldn't boot.

Raymond Lin · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:44

Skyboat · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:45

Burned. I did that on the very first DP1 before anything was known about disabling kext signing.

MagicBoy · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:46

Raymond Lin said:
TRIM Enabler "killed" my mbp, it wouldn't boot.

Got you. Glad it's fixed.

When I had the 2011 with the SSD, there was buttock clenching every time I re-applied it after a point update...

squerble · 18 Oct 2014 at 22:54

Raymond, that keyboard needs a clean!!

Raymond Lin · 18 Oct 2014 at 23:03

squerble said:
Raymond, that keyboard needs a clean!!

It is spotless.

it is covered by a Moshi keyboard cover.

squerble · 18 Oct 2014 at 23:04

Raymond Lin said:
It is spotless.

it is covered by a Moshi keyboard cover.

Sorry; it just looked filthy in the pic above

MagicBoy · 18 Oct 2014 at 23:12

Eww. Chrome!

Raymond Lin · 18 Oct 2014 at 23:34

MagicBoy said:
Eww. Chrome!

haha, I don't care, I am so glad it's working again, and while it is up, i am loading this album to the printers before i shut it down ! It might crap out again on me, taking no chances!

MagicBoy · 18 Oct 2014 at 23:44

Chrome is a menace.

Unless you are wedded to the extensions, I'd suggest Safari. The performance is better, battery life is better and it doesn't ignore many of the carefully implemented OS design decisions because they are inconvenient.

I'd be a rich man if I had a quid for everytime someone posted on a forum asking "my shiny new Mac only gets 4 hours of battery life when surfing the web - is it faulty" ... then to find out they're using Chrome and never even tried Safari "cause my windows using mate said it's rubbish"...

Raymond Lin · 18 Oct 2014 at 23:51

MagicBoy said:
Chrome is a menace.

Unless you are wedded to the extensions, I'd suggest Safari. The performance is better, battery life is better and it doesn't ignore many of the carefully implemented OS design decisions because they are inconvenient.

I'd be a rich man if I had a quid for everytime someone posted on a forum asking "my shiny new Mac only gets 4 hours of battery life when surfing the web - is it faulty" ... then to find out they're using Chrome and never even tried Safari "cause my windows using mate said it's rubbish"...

I use Chrome on the iMac where battery life is not a concern, so naturally I use Chrome on the MBP too, i never really take it out of the house much anyway.

But i'll remember that about the power thing

afraser2k · 19 Oct 2014 at 00:22

For me it was the adblock extension with using Chrome. Safari wouldn't block certain ads like YouTube and Twitch when using AdBlock Plus extension, if I remember correctly it was due to the way Safari handled extensions. Certainly noticed the increased power usage with Chrome though.

Liking the changes to Safari on Yosemite at the moment, currently on 2013 MacBook Air in full screen mode and late 2011 MacBook Pro for normal screen use.

V F · 19 Oct 2014 at 00:45

Raymond Lin said:
TRIM Enabler "killed" my mbp, it wouldn't boot.

Should have read the forum. http://www.cindori.org/forums/topic/update-to-yosemite-and-trim-enabler/

http://www.cindori.org/forums/topic/trim-enabler-in-yosemite/page/13/

http://www.cindori.org/status-of-trim-enabler-in-yosemite/

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