I gather Mavericks is not available for Snow leopard users?
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 02:25:01PM -0600, Steve Smith 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] <mailto:[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. 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