El Capitan OS X

Organising iTunes last night let to a lot of little spinning colourful discs.
 
Spizz said:
Organising iTunes last night let to a lot of little spinning colourful discs.
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When you're done, mine also needs a bit of organising. (I'm too lazy)

A few things I should note after running El Capitan for the past few days:

The OS is definitely more responsive. It might be that Apple made the animation quicker. So it might be user experience focused, not truly additional speed.

I had the WiFi problems that comes with every new installation. A bit of an irritation, but got it sorted quite quickly. I also prefer to use a 5Ghz Wifi network as my 2013 MBP is still giving problems with bluetooth + 2.4Ghz network. I suspect it is a hardware flaw Apple never spoke about.

The 'find-my-cursor' functionality. Cute, but not ground breaking. In anyway, you play with something and it gets bigger. People might start asking questions :D

Most applications work. I had Excel 'freeze' initially, but no problems later on. I don't use Outlook, so I can't comment on it. Adobe works well, yet still need to push it a bit to see if it crashes. I've installed Steam and started playing Tomb Raider (2013). The game gets stuck once in a while. I suspect that it might be the background downloading or a service.
 
PostmanPot said:
Most noticeably in Finder when it comes to running multiple tabs and general navigation and moving of data. Interchanging between multiple Word docs and regularly working on and saving them, as well as using multiple large spreadsheets with Excel. Scrolling websites is also smoother in Chrome.
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Thanks. I did notice that the battery in my Air seems to last a bit longer now with El Capitan - from the usual 1-2 hours it now gets 2 hours more consistently.

Still crap battery life though in the grand scheme of things :D
 
whatwhat said:
Thanks. I did notice that the battery in my Air seems to last a bit longer now with El Capitan - from the usual 1-2 hours it now gets 2 hours more consistently.

Still crap battery life though in the grand scheme of things :D
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How old is it? Used to get like 9 hours on my Air.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Crap that sucks. I've been running El Crapitan on my personal Macbook for a while already now and had no issues, but I don't use Outlook on it. Just updated my work Macbook and I do use Outlook on there...

EDIT: Just checked and mine seems to be working still.
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I spoke too soon - I just had to give it time and now it locks up a few times every day. Very annoying.
 
whatwhat said:
Thanks. I did notice that the battery in my Air seems to last a bit longer now with El Capitan - from the usual 1-2 hours it now gets 2 hours more consistently.

Still crap battery life though in the grand scheme of things :D
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You are either doing things on it your not supposed to or you have 3000 cycles on your battery.
 
whatwhat said:
Thanks. I did notice that the battery in my Air seems to last a bit longer now with El Capitan - from the usual 1-2 hours it now gets 2 hours more consistently.

Still crap battery life though in the grand scheme of things :D
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That's not good. Has it deteriorated or has it always been like that?

I've got 242 cycles on a 1.8 year old 13" Air and I get a good 8 hours.
 
All my updates finished

OS 6 GB
XCode 2.5GB
Garageband, iTunes, Keynote, Numbers and other apps 2.5 GB
Total = 10GB
 
Spizz said:
That's not good. Has it deteriorated or has it always been like that?

I've got 242 cycles on a 1.8 year old 13" Air and I get a good 8 hours.
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The older airs only got about 3-4 hours new iirc.
 
whatwhat said:
Thanks. I did notice that the battery in my Air seems to last a bit longer now with El Capitan - from the usual 1-2 hours it now gets 2 hours more consistently.

Still crap battery life though in the grand scheme of things :D
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Impressive for a ±2008 laptop!
 
This is the first time I haven't upgraded straight away - and boy, am I glad I waited with the SO's upgrade. Outlook is her bread and butter - and seems that's a bit of an issue at the moment - Office 2016 apparently not playing nicely with El Cap?

I've just got too much going on at the moment, to risk my main machine having issues. Think I might wait for x.1.

Have downloaded the installer, will pop it on a USB, and probably install on the Mac Mini when I have a moment ...
 
Cassady said:
This is the first time I haven't upgraded straight away - and boy, am I glad I waited with the SO's upgrade. Outlook is her bread and butter - and seems that's a bit of an issue at the moment - Office 2016 apparently not playing nicely with El Cap?

I've just got too much going on at the moment, to risk my main machine having issues. Think I might wait for x.1.

Have downloaded the installer, will pop it on a USB, and probably install on the Mac Mini when I have a moment ...
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weird havent had 1 issue with outlook 2016.

with a imap and pop3 account.
 
Installer downloaded and USB prepared. Busy cloning my drive, so that I can do a clean install. Hopefully no more random restarts...
 
On older macbooks with measly 4Gbs ram will El capitan still speed things up?

Anyone willing to spill the beans regarding how to save the installer file, where is it downloaded to?
 
airborne said:
On older macbooks with measly 4Gbs ram will El capitan still speed things up?

Anyone willing to spill the beans regarding how to save the installer file, where is it downloaded to?
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Applications
 
Thanks Bud, looks like I won't easily miss that one!
 
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