Sunnyjohn
10th Feb 2014, 17:54
When Mavericks was introduced as an upgrade to OSX, I queried whether it was worth upgrading. I thought those of you who use Apple computers would be interested in this from a long running thread on the Apple forums:
I have used Apple computers since pre-Mac, back in the Apple II days...
This is the first time in those 30+ years that I have ever disliked an OS update so much that I downgraded my systems. Mavericks seems a rushed attempt to make my desktop slightly more like an iPhone. I say they need to think about it in reverse. Make my iPhone more capable like a desktop.
Color labels are gone from Mavericks, which surprisingly is a big disruption in workflow in the Finder. In addition, after I had to drop $30 to buy QuickTime 7, a five-year-old piece of software, in order to preview all kinds of video files on the desktop level without having to convert them first... I knew it was getting ridiculous.
I downgraded back to Mountain Lion and things are running much smoother.
Come on, Apple... you're slipping, and I'm one of your biggest fans.
Unless you back up to Time Machine and still have a pre-Mavericks back-up there, it is somewhat daunting to return to Mountain Lion, necessitating backing up to a separate hard drive, erasing your computer hard drive and downloading Mountain Lion, then importing all your software, some if which may not work on Mountain Lion if you downloaded it for Mavericks. This chap must be serious!
I have used Apple computers since pre-Mac, back in the Apple II days...
This is the first time in those 30+ years that I have ever disliked an OS update so much that I downgraded my systems. Mavericks seems a rushed attempt to make my desktop slightly more like an iPhone. I say they need to think about it in reverse. Make my iPhone more capable like a desktop.
Color labels are gone from Mavericks, which surprisingly is a big disruption in workflow in the Finder. In addition, after I had to drop $30 to buy QuickTime 7, a five-year-old piece of software, in order to preview all kinds of video files on the desktop level without having to convert them first... I knew it was getting ridiculous.
I downgraded back to Mountain Lion and things are running much smoother.
Come on, Apple... you're slipping, and I'm one of your biggest fans.
Unless you back up to Time Machine and still have a pre-Mavericks back-up there, it is somewhat daunting to return to Mountain Lion, necessitating backing up to a separate hard drive, erasing your computer hard drive and downloading Mountain Lion, then importing all your software, some if which may not work on Mountain Lion if you downloaded it for Mavericks. This chap must be serious!