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Anyone running it yet?

Anyone actually able to download?


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 8:49 pm
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Downloading fine (so far) here - I've done 1gb in roughly 10mins.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 8:55 pm
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Posted : 22/10/2013 8:55 pm
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It's installing now. HDD on my iMac shat itself recently so figured now is as good a time as any while I'm doing a clean install.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 8:56 pm
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About 10% down.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 9:28 pm
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Done.

Struggling to see what is different to be honest.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 9:44 pm
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Do you need to back all of your documents up? I've set mine installing under the assumption that all my stuff will still be there....


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 9:52 pm
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You should always have a backup regardless.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 9:59 pm
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Just finished installing and will take a peek. Looking forward at least to the finder tabs and tagging as I can't abide loads of windows open.

You can't really complain with free though, and I guess the technical improvements will help laptops as opposed to my iMac.

@Bamboo - you haven't got a time machine disk set-up?


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:00 pm
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I'll wait for a stable version...I bet it doesn't support ios 6 either.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:01 pm
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Installed it and it deleted all of my photos of amusing road signs then made all my sufferfest videos 15% harder. WTF?


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:05 pm
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over 3 hrs to wait for mine 🙁

who's nicked all my bandwidth?


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:10 pm
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downloaded the GM build a few days ago, Safari has a few new features that i like, but other than that not much APPEARS to have changed. yes there is maps, ibook etc, just haven't used them so no comments.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:13 pm
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Don't download it if you have 2012 Air - it might kill the SSD...

http://www.apple.com/support/macbookair-flashdrive/

Mine just imploded after updating Adobe CC


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:18 pm
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No option to switch to 2D dock....oh FFS 😡

Don't download it if you have 2012 Air - it might kill the SSD...

There was an update earlier in the week to determine if you needed your drive replacing. I bought my MBA in June, and apparently it's ok.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:24 pm
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Yeah - the Apple release came out on 17/10 - I killed mine on 19th...


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:30 pm
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I can confirm that my files are all still there. I'll sort out the time machine tomorrow!


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:38 pm
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So far I am going to sum up my experience by saying at least it was free.

It's good to see Apple still have no idea what to do with the Dashboard. Either put a bullet in it's head, or do something with it!


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:42 pm
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Where does it tell you how much it's downloaded?

Edit: doh! Just found it.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:51 pm
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Tabbed Finder is handy.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 10:58 pm
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Don't download it if you have 2012 Air - it might kill the SSD...

http://www.apple.com/support/macbookair-flashdrive/

Mine just imploded after updating Adobe CC

Oops... mine's been sat doing it for the past hour or so. Not much I can see different except the fan is blaring away, and they've broken Chrome. The magic mouse no longer swipes back a page.

Best go run this tool and see if it's time for a new SSD!


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:00 pm
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Tabbed Finder is handy.

Shame, like tabs in Safari, it took so long to get here. I have been using [url= http://www.cocoatech.com/pathfinder/ ]Path Finder[/url] for a couple of years, and it just blows Finder into the trash bin. Even [url= http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/ ]Total Finder[/url] has more advance feature set with dual panes etc.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:04 pm
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Taking ages to download for me. Ho hum. I fully expect it to break my Adobe CC too.


 
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I fully expect it to break my Adobe CC too.

Photoshop CS6 works.

Anyway, nothing has blown me away, but will have a read through [url= http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/ ]Ars Technica's[/url] review tomorrow and see if there is anything I have missed.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:06 pm
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So... Is this a worthwhile thing to do now, or is it best to leave you lot to find the bugs for Apple, and I'll update my MacMini and MacBook Air in a few weeks?


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:07 pm
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So... Is this a worthwhile thing to do now, or is it best to leave you lot to find the bugs for Apple, and I'll update my MacMini and MacBook Air in a few weeks?

I'd wait. [url= https://help.apple.com/osx-mavericks/whats-new-from-mountain-lion ]You're really not missing anything[/url]. Also, if you haven't already and depending on the age of your MBA, run update and see whether you need the SSD firmware update or your drive is borked.

...of course, if you like....erm....anyone? Has been waiting to be able to share links to LinkedIn, then go for it!

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*looks at dock...shudders*

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Posted : 22/10/2013 11:11 pm
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OK, I feel like a total idiot - how do you figure out how much is left to download?


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:22 pm
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This SSD issue - is it a case of if Mavericks installs without borking it then it's fine?
All working fine here since installing, downloaded the firmware tool but it won't run as 'unsupported on your system'.
Would quite like to find out if it's going to implode on me as it's nearly 2 years old so warranty almost up!

Creative Cloud needs updating to work, and VMware is running like a dog, but it's OK cos I can fix that by buying the new version for £40. 🙁 Why do they have to change things....


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:27 pm
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OK, I feel like a total idiot - how do you figure out how much is left to download?

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Would quite like to find out if it's going to implode on me as it's nearly 2 years old so warranty almost up!

2 years? Is that a John Lewis warranty? As standard Apple is 1?

....oh, and what size/date is your SSD/MBA? As only 64/128GB from June 2012 affected.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:27 pm
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my app store doesn't have any download info at all. Just says that it's downloading.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:30 pm
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my app store doesn't have any download info at all. Just says that it's downloading.

Have you clicked the Purchases tab?


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:31 pm
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my app store doesn't have any download info at all. Just says that it's downloading.

Look at the lauchpad icon in the dock, it'll have a progress bar and if you hover over it it'll tell you downloaded/total file size.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:33 pm
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@Nick

If you want to see if you should be worried:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1690?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:33 pm
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Not going to risk it, i have a fair amount of Native Instruments music software programs along with Ableton and they tend to spit the dummy if i do anything unusual, I'm leaving well alone.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:37 pm
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June 2012 MBA 128GB - it's actually newer than I thought. Just after an excuse for a new one I suppose...

Apple's warranty is apparently 2 years direct with them to comply with EU regs. (Sold as 1 year though.) As I found out when I went in the the store a couple of months ago asking nicely for a couple of spare keys as it was out of warranty and a couple had cracked.

They didn't have any spare keys to do the job - so they replaced the top housing & keyboard and were going to replace the battery, heat issue caused the cracks apparently. Apparently a firmware update fixed the battery issue - I was still pretty impressed by the service though given it was out of the 'official' 1 year warranty!

Edit: Having a stupid moment - it's a mid 2011 MBA not mid 2012. It is as old as I thought! Sounds like i'm safe then!


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:38 pm
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Not going to risk it, i have a fair amount of Native Instruments music software programs along with Ableton and they tend to spit the dummy if i do anything unusual, I'm leaving well alone.

Not really an issue if one has a bootable backup in case things go sideways.

People do have backups, right?

.....but I do concur about NI being useless when it comes to compatibility updates.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:40 pm
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Waiting for a bit before downloading, terrific it's free I would have paid to upgrade my trusty 2009 Mac Mini.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:45 pm
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Don't have launch pad - I never made the jump to mountain lion. I think I'm still on snow leopard


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:47 pm
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MacBook is done, and seems to be running a tad faster for it. Will do the MacMini in the morning though, all the other Macs in the house are currently using it to install (it's setup as a caching server).


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:54 pm
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Yeah i have airport extreme back-ups but it's still a hassle and a nervous wait to see if the NI stuff is going to play ball or not, their software is great when it works but if anything goes tits up their support is abysmal, I've an old Kore hardware unit that used to work great with my NI Komplete 7 package and was a hoot to use as a plug in with Ableton but it spat the dummy for no reason a year or so ago and NI just don't wish to know, fingers crossed my Maschine and S4 will last a good while longer.

I've never had any issue wi Ableton.


 
Posted : 22/10/2013 11:57 pm
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Anyone using GPGtools, going into Mail, Preferences and hit update before upgrading to Mavericks. Mail automatically disables the plugin in Mavericks as it's not compatible, and the upgrade facility in System Prefs won't download the new one, and you can't download it from their site yet either.

You'll be fine if you upgrade it before upgrading to mavericks though.


 
Posted : 23/10/2013 12:01 am
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The magic mouse no longer swipes back a page.

For some reason they have disabled this by default. If you go into your mouse settings, you can re-enable it


 
Posted : 23/10/2013 7:49 am
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Now I'm used to "Australia tax", whereby goods cost a little bit more than the exchange rate would predict.

I'm also used to "Apple tax", whereby hardware costs a little bit more than the component list would predict.

But it now seems we have a new monster "Australia Mac Pro tax", whereby it should cost around $4150 based on US prices, but in fact costs $5299. Guess I won't be buying one of those, then....


 
Posted : 23/10/2013 10:27 am
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Would be cheaper to have a holiday to the US and bring one back 8)


 
Posted : 23/10/2013 10:48 am
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It's good to see Apple still have no idea what to do with the Dashboard. Either put a bullet in it's head, or do something with it!

So it's not just me then....


 
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