Just converted to Mavericks and it seem great. And the upgrade was free .. not sure why.
Steps: First - Clean obsolete kruft from computer. OmniDiskSweeper (free) is very useful. Also look at apps finding old and unused apps especially ones unlikely to run. Delete with AppZapper or similar .. need to remove prefs etc. - Build a Superduper bootable backup. This is useful both as a fallback, and if you want a clean build, you boot from that and have the installer build on your internal boot disk. Probably need to clear/format/repair the disk w/ DiskUtil. - I searched for a "how to migrate to Mavericks" article which included all that Then - Go to App Store and download installer (takes quite a while due to size) - When downloaded, pops up the installer. You can quit it and install later if you'd like, in Apps folder - Took quite a while to install as well, but seemed to do a sweet job - Initially asked for lots of permissions and other transition annoyances, but not bad. - Smoothest install I've ever had. -- Owen On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]>wrote: > On 7/12/13, 4:08 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > > My performance problems were solved (pushed back) with 8MB of memory so > I'm happy for the moment. I'm expecting that next time I feel like a HD > upgrade (the one in it fails, my data hoarding and sloppy housekeeping > fills it up, or I upgrade to a new machine) that SSDs will be much more > affordable. > > OSX Mavericks now has compression in the virtual memory system. I've > been doing parallel builds all day and I see the Activity Monitor regularly > showing 2GB of compressed memory (on an old 4GB 2009 era MacBook Pro). If > that had to hit disk, the system would grind to a halt, but it doesn't. > It seems to work well. > > Marcus > > P.S. Linux has had this for a while in various forms for a number of > years, e.g compcache. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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