I jumped on board too, and have been happy. Since my hard drive was less than half full, I first created a new partition and installed Mavericks on it. Once I had convinced myself I liked it, I copied data and applications from the old partition to the new, leaving behind whatever cruft I felt I could live without (I could always get anything I left behind from backups, anyway). Once I was really sure I wanted to stay with Mavericks, I just deleted the old partition and added its space to the new.
Gary On Oct 29, 2013, at 3:25 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to both Owen and Marcus for the good reports... While I've never > dreaded an OSX update like I have Winderz major releases, I have always > avoided being an early adopter... I might just take the plunge. > > I'm wondering why VM compression hasn't caught on sooner? Has the physical > memory curve kept ahead of it well enough, or is the compute-cost simply too > high? > > My mother-in-law's 2009 MacBook (not pro) is grinding a lot on VM (mostly > from web browsing)... I was going to look into possibly downgrading her > Safari/Firefox to an older version that might not be as memory-hungry, or > putting in some extra memory... but maybe upgrading her system to Mavericks > will provide the needed relief? > > Except for the very unfortunate codename "Mavericks" it sounds very > promising... supposedly the name came from a Surf Beach near Half Moon Bay, > possibly suggesting "a new wave" in OS... despite apparently being very > similar to Mountain Lion, maybe it *does* portend a "new wave". One has to > wonder "did they just run out of Big Cat names?" in the same way that they > are running out of decimal digits (10.9) or does this signify a significant > change in direction (gearing up for a big change in 11 and naming after surf > beaches for the next generation?). > > Sadly I can't hear the term "Mavericks" without hearing it in Sarah Palin's > pinched Wasila-Whine of a voice. I'll try to superpose the image of a young > James Garner making some dry, witty remark near the end of a poker game on a > riverboat instead. And who knew that Roger Moore was on that late 50's TV > western as cousin Beau Maverick? > > >> 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 >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> 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 > > ============================================================ > 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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