“It’s fairly common for computer users to delay updating to major operating system releases, and though Mac owners tend to be a bit better at upgrading than Windows users, many are still running old versions of OS X,” OS X Daily writes.
“For some users there are good reasons for this, maybe lingering on outdated OS X versions like Snow Leopard because of compatibility issues with a specific app, or because they just really like it,” OS X Daily writes. “But then there are other users who have already made the leap beyond Snow Leopard, and are sitting on OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion, procrastinating and putting off the OS X Mavericks update for no good reason.”
“Let’s just say it; OS X Lion was a mess of an operating system. Between the crashes, the crazy unpredictable auto-saving behavior, the aggressive file locking and forced file duplication, and the removal of simple yet core functionality and features like Save As, many Lion users were annoyed to say the least,” OS X Daily writes. “The good news? All of those issues were mostly fixed with OS X Mountain Lion, and has been reiterated on further with OS X Mavericks. Things are better now, so if the holdup has been fear of making things worse, it’s unfounded.”
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Mavericks has almost destroyed my user experience on my MBP.
It runs dismally slow, it’s almost impossible to switch from desktop to desktop. Lion and Mountain Lion worked great, but Mavericks is crushing.
Dumb to wait, unless you have a CADD application that costs thousands of dollars per seat to up grade, that doesn’t work on Mavericks! I would LOVE to upgrade but that would be an sxtremely expensive proposition for us….
Two strong reasons to NOT move to Mavericks:
1 Your hardware is too old
2 You depend on software that runs using Rosetta (AppleWorks comes to mind, I’m sure there are others)
I’d like to see some of these alleged journalists take these two factors into account. I”m pretty sure when you exclude these two groups who can’t move to Mavericks the remaining non-adopting fraction is pretty small.
I went to Mavericks early on, because neither of those are a factor for me. I think it runs faster and has really reduced the processor load.
Yes, upgrade to Mountain Lion. Or Keep Snow Leopard. But don’t upgrade to Mavericks. Mavericks is a bit slower and runs okay, but the design changes Apple made to the Finder and other parts of the OS really piss off a large and vocal number of Mac users. I think that Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion were the best Mac OSs. With Mavericks, Apple has taken several steps back to “The Stone Age Of Computing,” a la Microsoft … I mean really stupid and useless changes. With Mavericks, you need to use two hands to open a folder in a separate folder window, and it’s near impossible to set the size and location of those windows. There are SO many design changes that have really upset so many. Microsoft really screwed up with Vista, but Apple has screwed up in a similar way with Mavericks. I really wish that I had never “upgraded” to Mavericks, and I hope Apple remedies the user complaints. In my opinion, Mavericks is a “downgrade.” Apple’s OS X used to be the most advanced OS, but Mavericks is certainly NOT! It is less advanced, in my opinion, to both Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I much prefer Mavericks to Mountain Lion. Especially the multiple monitor support! Plus it runs very quick for me on my 2012 iMac.
Never ever think of upgrading lion to mavericks if you are one of those who does real stuff with a computer. Not just twitter, facebook, photos and simple stuff like that.
An example? gcc not anymore supported which causes several troubles to install opencv and qt.
Quicktime is not anymore happy to work with perian plugin which, among other things, makes it impossibile to play an avi file with quick look. I can keep going, but this is enough already to say mavericks sucks. Much better lion