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  • Mac OS upgrade 'El Capitan'
  • neilwheel
    Free Member

    Hello, any advice about this for a luddite.

    I have a Macbook Air running on ‘Mountain Lion’.

    I did not upgrade to ‘Yosemite’ due to all the reported issues.

    Have all the bugs been fixed now?
    Should I upgrade to ‘El Capitan’?

    Thanks, Neil.

    the-muffin-man
    Full Member

    I upgraded my 6yr old MacBook Pro last week – no issues so far and straightforward install.

    I didn’t have any issues with Yosemite either.

    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    +1 for the same question (though on a iMac running Mountain Lion).

    I’d like to be able to use Sketchup, which requires 10.9.whatever.

    stevious
    Full Member

    No issues for me on 2011 MBP – any particular software you’re concerned about?

    neilwheel
    Free Member

    Thanks all.

    I have an issue with iphoto crashing, within a second or two of opening. I was hoping an upgrade would fix this.

    Pook
    Full Member

    My Bluetooth speaker now doesn’t pair

    allthegear
    Free Member

    Neilwheel – given iphoto is replaced by the entirely new Photos app, you should be fine.

    Im a big fan of creating a boot usb stick of major os releases and then installing a new install onto a formatted disk rather than upgrading. Not so much because the installer is flakey but becuse it clears out all the bad decisions I’ve made on the laptop since the last tine i did it.

    Plenty of articles online how to do this. Anyone in norfolk is welcone to borrow my usb stick ready to roll.

    This process might be why my laptop is still nice and whizzy and isnt causing me errors.

    Rachel

    neilwheel
    Free Member

    Thanks Rachel.

    I’ll go for the upgrade.

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    never had any issues with upgrades from Lion onwards. Currently on El Cap.

    Stoatsbrother
    Free Member

    On a 6.5 year old iMac, slow before upgrade last week, to be able to access a new iPhone 6s, and slow after too… But prettier. 🙂

    neilwheel
    Free Member

    All done and seems fine. Thanks all.

    My partner had loads of problems with Yosemite and lost a lot of contacts from her phone too.

    As I don’t know how to fix these kind of issues, ‘proceed with extreme caution’ seems to work well for me.

    zippykona
    Full Member

    I just upgrade in the hope that the new system fixes the old one.

    rickmeister
    Full Member

    Early 2006 macbook with 2gb ram is un upgradable… new macbook pro on order… win !

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