Hi Paul: I am a big fan! I have a mid-2011 21.5 inch iMac, with 4 gigs of RAM, and so far Yosemite is running just fine, and I had absolutely no problems during download on either desktop or laptop. I do plan to add four more gigs to the desktop eventually. Lightroom 5 runs just a tad slow, but not to the point I want to pull my hair out. Once I add some RAM Lightroom-life will probably be pretty snappy on the desktop. I have Yosemite on my early-2013 13 inch MacBook Pro/Retina, with 8 gigs of RAM and I move right along on it. Lightroom 5 runs wonderfully on the laptop. No problems with iOS 8 on the Air—now that is. I did get caught in that little hiccup, but yesterday’s update smoothed all the lingering wrinkles out just fine, so I’m very pleased with the performance on the Air. I don’t have a current iPhone—still using iPhone 4 (no S). I do plan to upgrade, but just haven’t gotten around to it.
The new interface, in my view, gives me noticeably more viewing space on the display for both desktop and laptop. I don’t find the design childish or trite—it’s a little on the lollipop side in terms of color, but I find this brightens the viewing area—making it more cheerful. I thought I’d miss the skeuomorphism design when Apple began to change over, but I find I actually prefer the current aesthetic. Skeuomorphism looks really heavy and dark when I use my old iPad 2 to watch Netflix on our TV. Oh, I should add, I think Safari has really sped up—very snappy with the upgrade. If I remember correctly, I can’t use Hand-off on my iMac—too old, but for sure I can use it with the laptop—though I haven’t tried it. So overall, I’m very pleased with the upgrades, but I do have to say, I don’t have a lot of apps on my desktop (or laptop)—I don’t run a full version of Photoshop or any other big name apps other than Lightroom. I’m a very heavy user of the all the apps that come with the Apple hardware, so my CPUs and such are not heavily burdened with playing nice with a multitude of applications and files or sophisticated high tech configurations—and even after almost 4 years of use, I still have over 50% of my hard drive unused thanks to the cloud and external drive storage. I may try to move my videos to external storage at some point—read a how-to article on how to do that—and if I did, I would really add a significant chunk of free space on the hard drive. So, so far I’m a happy bunny! HTH. Cheers, Christine > On Oct 21, 2014, at 5:49 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > What’s the skinny on the new OSX? It’s supposed to provide more iPHone > support, which is a plus, but are there drawbacks? Some have said the > interface is childish and trite. Others have said its gimmicks will slow down > the machine. Any fans or foes here? > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
