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Posted by mikescs
mikescs
5,018 Points

Treehousers are you happy with a Yosemite ?

Hi guys,

I wanted to ask especially a treehouse staff how they are happy with Yosemite.

It performs really bad on my late mbp 2013 15" and i am seriously considering a switching to a windows desktop.

Apple killed a mac for me with this update. It feels like it performs at least 5% worse than mavericks.

Zach Pratt
Zach Pratt
Courses Plus Student 12,756 Points

I'm running it on the same model MBP. II've had no issues at all with any of the betas, etc.

5 Answers

Nkosi Ndlovu
Nkosi Ndlovu
9,652 Points
Nkosi Ndlovu
Nkosi Ndlovu
9,652 Points

My laptop has been heating and the fans going crazy. The problem seems to be google chrome helper. Never had this problem on Mavericks.

Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points
Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points

I'm loving Yosemite! Aesthetically it looks awesome and it runs just fine.

-Luke

Geoff Parsons
Geoff Parsons
11,679 Points
Geoff Parsons
Geoff Parsons
11,679 Points

I've heard a few reports of issues with having to rebuild gemsets when developing in rails, specifically when using rbenv but haven't had any issues myself. Hopefully everyone is having a smooth transition.

Nick Pettit
STAFF
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher
Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

I recently wiped my SSD and did a clean install of Mavericks, right before Yosemite, and it cleared up a ton of performance issues and graphics glitches. It was sort of a last resort for me, and I didn't think it would work the way it typically does on a Windows PC, but it worked great.

If you're having performance problems, I would consider backing up your data and doing a clean install. If you want to clean install Yosemite, this guide looks pretty good.

mikescs
mikescs
5,018 Points

Hah! So you also were not that happy :-). It is a tough choice because os x has always been a working,nice and stable unix. We had the power of UNIX and we did not have to sacrifice productivity. But i am being really frustrated at how things turned out for iOS 8 and now for Yosemite.

I think i will do the clean install as well :-) thanks Nick

Khaleel Hamid
Khaleel Hamid
5,258 Points
Khaleel Hamid
Khaleel Hamid
5,258 Points

When you wipe the mac does delete everything on it that you had download? If it does is there away to get everything back, music, videos, softwares, etc?

Geoff Parsons
Geoff Parsons
11,679 Points

Khaleel Hamid If you follow the instructions Nick Pettit posted everything on your computer will be deleted. If you purchased your music through iTunes or something similar you can re-download it through that service. If not you will need to make a backup to an external drive, DVD-R, or USB drive of anything you want to keep before you wipe and install.

Khaleel Hamid
Khaleel Hamid
5,258 Points

Thanks Geoff