Thanks Christine and Bruce. I installed Yosemite on my laptop. So far so good. If it works out okay for another day or two I’ll put it on my iMac — my work computer. Doesn’t seem to have slowed things down noticeably, and this is an old laptop, a 2009 aluminum macbook with a 2 Ghz core duo processor.
Paul > On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:35 PM, Christine Aguila <christ...@caguila.com> wrote: > > 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 <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> 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 >> PDML@pdml.net >> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
