Anybody else having issues with Mavericks?

[TreVader]

Sometimes when I close apps and they don't quit they are impossible to close through activity monitor. Even if I go into the terminal it comes up as "process not found"!

Running this on late 2013 15" rMBP.

Also, it's really stupid that I have to download a 3rd party app to force 2880x1800 when I want to use illustrator or photoshop. I don't know what apple was thinking there...


My cracked version of Avid Pro Tools no longer works.... which is another wonderful feature.


Does anybody know if there's a way to downgrade to Lion or Mountian Lion? Hell I would take Snow Leopard at this point.

 

[Kadarin]

My dock will randomly switch to the bottom of the other monitor. Civ IV BTS has resolution issues (MBPr). That's about it so far.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I have found that iTunes hangs a lot (more than I have ever seen any OSX application hang, ever), and sometimes Quicktime behaves strangely - I will occasionally lose the control bar. Other than that I have not had any issues. Running on a mid-2009 13" MBP with a Crucial M4 SSD and, I think, 8 GB RAM.

 

[ControlD]

My 2011 13" MBP is certainly slower than it was under SL but besides that I haven't had any major issues.

 

[HN]

My cracked version of Avid Pro Tools no longer works.... which is another wonderful feature.

not sure if i would count that as an official bug

 

[gus6464]

OP what battery life you getting out of your 15?

 

[TreVader]

OP what battery life you getting out of your 15?

9-9:30 hours mixed usage (browsing/netflix) with brightness at about 33%.

If I just browse at the lowest brightness setting it would prob do 11hrs. maybe 12.

If i play games at full brightness it will burn through it in less than 6 hours.

The estimated battery life is way off tho. It will start out estimating 8 hours and 40 min later it will say 9 hours.

 

[TreVader]

My 2011 13" MBP is certainly slower than it was under SL but besides that I haven't had any major issues.

my 2011 Macbook Air is slow but I'm pretty sure that's mostly because I have file vault running all the time.


It's actually gotten pretty absurd how slow it's gotten considering it's an intel + SSD machine. I don't think my dicking around with installing jrat on it and using that as a remote desktop helped.

 

[ControlD]

my 2011 Macbook Air is slow but I'm pretty sure that's mostly because I have file vault running all the time.


It's actually gotten pretty absurd how slow it's gotten considering it's an intel + SSD machine. I don't think my dicking around with installing jrat on it and using that as a remote desktop helped.

Did you do a clean install or an upgrade install? I did the upgrade and wonder if doing a fresh install might speed things up a little.

 

[gus6464]

Did you do a clean install or an upgrade install? I did the upgrade and wonder if doing a fresh install might speed things up a little.

I first did an upgrade from mountain lion to mavericks on mac mini and found the machine acting kinda meh. After that I reformatted everything and created a fusion drive from command line, installed mavericks from USB stick and I found it to run smoother.

 

[MotionMan]

I am having issues with very slow iTunes and iPhoto, leading to random reboots.

I am hoping an update will help, as they usually do.

MotionMan

 

[gus6464]

My airport express streaming from iTunes just does not work on Mavericks. Audio will cut out after 10 secs. No issues when streaming from iTunes on my PC.

 

[Eug]

Works fine here, on a new install on a MacBook Pro, and an upgrade on an iMac.

I'm not surprised an upgrade could cause problems though. I've had problems with upgrades on previous OS installs in the past, and those problems disappeared after doing a clean install.

 

[MotionMan]

I am having issues with very slow iTunes and iPhoto, leading to random reboots.

I am hoping an update will help, as they usually do.

MotionMan

A new version of iTunes came out today. Hopefully it will fix some of my problems.

Also, has anyone else had problems syncing iOS 6 iDevices on Mavericks?

MotionMan

 

[joshhedge]

My rPro sometimes loses all volume. Have to restart for the system to actually play any form of audio.

This usually happens after waking from sleep.

Additionally the notification window that you can toggle on the right side of the display doesn't work on a multi monitor setup and causes the wallpaper to distort.

 

[TreVader]

Mail is now intermittently freezing



I'm going to do a totally fresh install on the 13" 2011 MBA. Hopefully that will fix any issues with the upgrade.



LOVING this macbook pro. Battery life is amazing and this screen... idk how I lived without it. My macbook airs 1440x900 screen (which by all rights is a good screen) looks like garbage now.



As I just typed this the cursor froze over safari for 10 seconds. I really do not like 10.9

 

[Eug]

this screen... idk how I lived without it. My macbook airs 1440x900 screen (which by all rights is a good screen) looks like garbage now.

Yeah, I really don't like those Airs' screens. They're similar to our white MacBook, which I don't like either.

It's too bad Apple charges so much for laptops with such mediocre screens.

 

[TreVader]

Yeah, I really don't like those Airs' screens. They're similar to our white MacBook, which I don't like either.

It's too bad Apple charges so much for laptops with such mediocre screens.

I actually liked my Macbook Airs screen, but then again the last laptop I owned before the MBA was a dell inspiron from 2003.


The thing about the prices apple charges is yeah they are high but there is a huge resale value attached to them.


A friend of mine who is buying my macbook air next week was going to buy a cheap $700 windows laptop and the way I put it to him was in 2-3 yrs that laptop becomes trash. The macbook air could net you 50% of it's starting price over the same period of time. That basically makes them equal in price if you don't mind reselling them.


Apple charges so much partly because they know they can but the reason they know they can is their laptops are superior all around designs to anything on the PC market and they always have the latest processors and are very very thin and light. I don't know why PC makers no longer put the effort in to make something like the macbook pro but they should.

 

[Eug]

I actually liked my Macbook Airs screen, but then again the last laptop I owned before the MBA was a dell inspiron from 2003.

Heh. You didn't know what you were missing.

The thing about the prices apple charges is yeah they are high but there is a huge resale value attached to them.

A friend of mine who is buying my macbook air next week was going to buy a cheap $700 windows laptop and the way I put it to him was in 2-3 yrs that laptop becomes trash. The macbook air could net you 50% of it's starting price over the same period of time. That basically makes them equal in price if you don't mind reselling them.

Actually, when I was getting partial compensation from my workplace for my computer purchases, one thing I did from time to time was buy the (near-)lowest end model of a line frequently, and resell the old one. The lower end models retain the most value percentage-wise. I wouldn't lose much money that way, but I'd have a refresh frequently.

The higher end models not so much. They don't retain their value as well. The higher end models sell for higher $ in absolute terms, but lower percentage of original purchase price.

Apple charges so much partly because they know they can but the reason they know they can is their laptops are superior all around designs to anything on the PC market and they always have the latest processors and are very very thin and light. I don't know why PC makers no longer put the effort in to make something like the macbook pro but they should.

Except for the MBA screens.

Here's hoping things change in 2014.

 

[TheStu]

Except for the MBA screens.

One of these days, I am going to lay a trap here on the forums. Somewhere innocuous and out of the way, I will leave a remark about how I think that the Air's screen isn't the worst thing in the whole world. And then I'll wait to see how long it takes for you to come along and tell me I'm wrong.

 

[Eug]

 

[TreVader]

I really really doubt they'll do anything but possibly up it to something like 1080p. Which would still be great.


The big selling point right now for the 13" pro vs air is the screen. It would murder pro sales if you could get an air with the same or close quality screen.

I would love to see it though. A MBA with a retina display would be the ultimate ultrabook.

 

[Eug]

I really really doubt they'll do anything but possibly up it to something like 1080p. Which would still be great.


The big selling point right now for the 13" pro vs air is the screen. It would murder pro sales if you could get an air with the same or close quality screen.

I would love to see it though. A MBA with a retina display would be the ultimate ultrabook.

The other difference is the CPU in the MBP is way more powerful than the Air's.

Getting 1080p in the 13" Air would make it even worse IMO. My eyes would go all buggy trying to deal such a fine (but not Retina) resolution.

 

[Dopeyman]

Does anybody know if there's a way to downgrade to Lion or Mountian Lion? Hell I would take Snow Leopard at this point.

Start up from from an external with ML on it, or create an ML USB Drive...

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Sometimes when I close apps and they don't quit they are impossible to close through activity monitor. Even if I go into the terminal it comes up as "process not found"!

Running this on late 2013 15" rMBP.

Also, it's really stupid that I have to download a 3rd party app to force 2880x1800 when I want to use illustrator or photoshop. I don't know what apple was thinking there...


My cracked version of Avid Pro Tools no longer works.... which is another wonderful feature.


Does anybody know if there's a way to downgrade to Lion or Mountian Lion? Hell I would take Snow Leopard at this point.

No issues so far on my Mac Mini (2010)