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10.9 All the Little Things!
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I'm not happy with Mavericks, so I went back to Mountain Lion. Mavericks was jittery and slow, especially Safari. Apps I use all the time such as Photoshop, Word, iMovie, iPhoto, Lightroom, etc were opening so slow and running so slow. I couldn't take it.
If they release an update that fixes all of that, I will gladly re-install, but until then, I am staying away.
Oh, and I had performed a clean install.
If they release an update that fixes all of that, I will gladly re-install, but until then, I am staying away.
Oh, and I had performed a clean install.
Every since Mavericks, no smooth scrolling in LaunchPad.
At least, you can scroll a tad before it switches screen... This may be minial, but you do notice these things.....
(Least, I do anyway).
The sparkles in Lauchpad looks *cool* when new apps are downloaded ... May be old behaviors, but leave it in..... Gets the users attention too.
At least, you can scroll a tad before it switches screen... This may be minial, but you do notice these things.....
(Least, I do anyway).
The sparkles in Lauchpad looks *cool* when new apps are downloaded ... May be old behaviors, but leave it in..... Gets the users attention too.
And this article:
TidBITS: Mail in Mavericks Changes the Gmail Equation
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Every since Mavericks, no smooth scrolling in LaunchPad.
At least, you can scroll a tad before it switches screen... This may be minial, but you do notice these things.....
LaunchPad still scrolls super smoothly for me, like butta...
I'm on an 2013 MacBook Air w/i7 processor.
Some very odd Launchpad behaviour.
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Wow that's bad. Mine just stutters a lot, but that's ridiculous.
Trackpad issues on older MacBook Pro with Safari
I've noticed when using tabs and the trackpad in Safari, the 2 finger pitch gesture that brings up your tabs to center to cycle through is a bit choppy/slow. I've got a 4,1 MBP from '08, so it may just be an aging hardware thing, but other gestures appear much smoother.
I've noticed when using tabs and the trackpad in Safari, the 2 finger pitch gesture that brings up your tabs to center to cycle through is a bit choppy/slow. I've got a 4,1 MBP from '08, so it may just be an aging hardware thing, but other gestures appear much smoother.
You're not alone. I have the exact same machine as you do and I'm seeing it. I also managed to crash Safari by doing that while it was loading a page.
Another 2-finger gesture issue I've seen in Safari is the current tab hanging when trying to move back and forth in history by swiping. Safari itself doesn't appear to be frozen as the UI is still responsive, but going to a different address won't change anything on the page. Other tabs also work fine, but the malfunctioning tab never recovers.
That issue started to manifest itself with every attempt at a 2-finger swipe to go back to previous page. Simply restarting Safari didn't have an effect, the whole computer needed to be restarted.
I apologise for the offtopic here!
Yes, I also noticed the 2 finger swiping of pages is choppy/sluggish. I don't think I've had to restart for any reason or crashed. I'm sure they'll get the kinks out in time. This laptop was pretty much collecting dust as I mainly use my Mac Pro, but Mavs was free so I just had to throw it on my MBP to test it out. I hacked my unsupported Mac Pro to run Mavs as well. I guess I'll have to show both machines equal love
Some very odd Launchpad behaviour.
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Oh yeah that happened to me. Cept it was not just Launchpad. It was the all the dock icons, some icons on finder. Suffice to say thats when I restored my Mac and cleaned install Mavericks. That was about a week...Mavericks is now behaving itself...
Has anyone noticed that enhanced dictation In Mavericks doesn't seem to be working very well in pages? It seems to work pretty well in other places(like this web form, for example). But in pages it is completely and utterly useless
Even the old, "non-enhanced" dictation is extremely slow and clunky, and often fails completely.
Anyone else having any success using the enhanced dictation function in the new pages app? Is there anything I can do to fix or improve it?
Anyone else having any success using the enhanced dictation function in the new pages app? Is there anything I can do to fix or improve it?
I too went back to Mountain Lion.I'm not happy with Mavericks, so I went back to Mountain Lion. Mavericks was jittery and slow, especially Safari. Apps I use all the time such as Photoshop, Word, iMovie, iPhoto, Lightroom, etc were opening so slow and running so slow. I couldn't take it.
If they release an update that fixes all of that, I will gladly re-install, but until then, I am staying away.
Oh, and I had performed a clean install.
Mavericks is just too full of bugs, and for me the fact that Gmail no longer works as it should with Mail was the last straw.
I upgraded my main machine (’11 MBP 2.3 i7/16GB 15”) Friday morning and it’s been pretty outstanding.
Once everything settled down/indexing completed, the performance has been at least as good as ML (10.8.5). My mail is working fine (I have a number of accounts on different services), the new full screen/multi-monitor _finally_ works like it should and I’m liking many of the new features.
Also interesting, is my Winders© related tasks seem much faster. Parallels is running quicker (specifically starting/stopping services), and Remote Desktop is much faster (connect/disconnect and general desktop operations).
No incompatibility issues so far, and I’m sure I’ve hit most of my main apps and utilities (MSO 11, Xcode 5, several text editors, Postgres, Parallels, utils like Numi, BTT, GFXStat, Caffeine, etc.)
Also updated the wife’s machine (’10 MBP 2.4C2D/4GB, 13”), and it really seems to have new life.
Once everything settled down/indexing completed, the performance has been at least as good as ML (10.8.5). My mail is working fine (I have a number of accounts on different services), the new full screen/multi-monitor _finally_ works like it should and I’m liking many of the new features.
Also interesting, is my Winders© related tasks seem much faster. Parallels is running quicker (specifically starting/stopping services), and Remote Desktop is much faster (connect/disconnect and general desktop operations).
No incompatibility issues so far, and I’m sure I’ve hit most of my main apps and utilities (MSO 11, Xcode 5, several text editors, Postgres, Parallels, utils like Numi, BTT, GFXStat, Caffeine, etc.)
Also updated the wife’s machine (’10 MBP 2.4C2D/4GB, 13”), and it really seems to have new life.
Mmm. Definitely snappier.
One thing I have noticed is that running Ubuntu on VirtualBox to convert videos to .avi format the jobs are completing a LOT faster. Looks like some real under-the-hood optimisation has been going on. Late-2012 mac mini i5 with 16 GB ram.
*edit*
That said, having a native WinFF substitute would be so much better...
Mmm. Definitely snappier.
One thing I have noticed is that running Ubuntu on VirtualBox to convert videos to .avi format the jobs are completing a LOT faster. Looks like some real under-the-hood optimisation has been going on. Late-2012 mac mini i5 with 16 GB ram.
*edit*
That said, having a native WinFF substitute would be so much better...
WinFF looks like a crappy gui over ffmpeg, what's wrong with the 234234 ffmpeg gui available on os x?
Well, Mail actually made one change that works *better* with Gmail, and that is, it now properly respects the "All Mail" folder and having it enabled doesn't result in duplicate messages being downloaded. In a sense, this was a very good update for Gmail users, it's just that it's now negatively affecting those users who disabled the "All Mail" folder to make up for the poor incompatibility of these two in the past.
Good write-up here: https://tidbits.com/article/14219
I have also read that Mail.app isn't properly showing new messages from Exchange and/or Gmail accounts, the "push" isn't working correctly, I suppose. And apparently Apple is aware of this and will be issuing a fix soon.
That being said, email is the one application that I vastly prefer to keep as a web app, rather than trying to shoehorn Gmail into an IMAP client. I'm constantly connected so offline access isn't nearly as important to me as ease of use and efficiency. The best answer for me, for years now, has been in the site-specific browser that is MailPlane. It's been nearly perfect for me and I can't see going back to Mail.app (or Sparrow or AirMail or Postbox Unibox) anytime soon, at least not as my primary email app.
Still, Apple should really fix those issues, they should make it so Mail is "optimized" for Gmail's particular way of doing things. Alas, their priority is obviously iCloud...
I find it really interesting that even virtualized environments of *other* operating systems are seeing speed boosts in Mavericks.
Did Mavs improve 4K playback in Quicktime? Before I had issues playing 4K video on my rMBP, it stuttered a lot. Now it's smooth as butter and looks great!
In other news though, I'm still having issues with Quick Look playing any resolution. I thought the problems were gone, but they're not.
In other news though, I'm still having issues with Quick Look playing any resolution. I thought the problems were gone, but they're not.
Just installed 10.9 on my late 2007 Intel iMac (just made the cut) and things have been very good use wise. Did have to uninstall Photoshop CS2 since it wasn't compatible but am getting Pixelmator to use with my Photo Mechanic program. My original Plants vs. Zombies game also isn't supported. Couple of small questions. Have update for iMovie available but my graphics card won't support it so is there a way to disable the update so it's not sitting there with it's little blue no. 1 all the time? And right now I only have 2 gb of RAM and I'm showing between 1.6-1.9 used after the update. Now I did purchase 2 gb more which will bring my total to 4 (can't use any more on this iMac) but was wondering if there is anything else I should to streamline my computer. Moved a large amount of documents and photos to my external hard drive (I have zero issues with storage) and I have run Disc Doctor but my Onyx program won't work, have to upgrade that also. Otherwise feels good to be up to date and taking time to discover the funs things with this new OS. Thanks for your suggestions.
When you update to iMovie 10, iMovie 9 stays in your applications folder. I would just hit update.
I have tried several times but just keep getting the graphics card not compatible box. iMovie still works if I open it but was just trying to see if I could erase the update in the App Store so it wouldn't be sitting there forever.
So the ebooks I added to iBooks manually didnt sync over to my iOS devices ... however, once theyre on the iOS device, they +do+ sync your place! I just kind of figured books that dont sync would be excluded from other sync related services. Im assuming bookmarks will too.
Pretty cool.
Pretty cool.
Ah ha! Just the hint I was looking for. I'll check that out later; thanks Ritsuka.
This ones not really a problem, but when sending mail... not if its one of the bug fixes, but when sending mail "Outbox" appears momentarily, then removes itself from the list of accounts after sending.
Never seen this before 10.9.
You would think the user knows mail is being sent based on the "progress" bar at the bottom.
Never seen this before 10.9.
You would think the user knows mail is being sent based on the "progress" bar at the bottom.