Anyone else having OSX problems with their Apple?

[HardDrive]

I installed an update to OSX Mavericks a week ago (10.9.5). The machine is now a door stop. Slow, constant spinning beach balls, slow internet connectivity, hangs up completely sometime requiring a hard reboot. Rebooted a few minutes ago, and it took 10 minutes! It was 100% fine before the update.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Evidently the situation with Yosemite is even worse.

[Gogar]

I have 2 MacBooks at home and an 8-core Harpertown that I all put on Mavericks at the same time. The older (core 2 duo) macbook is definitely a little clunkier now but everything else is ok.

I also have an (identical) 8-core Harpertown at work that I put on Mavericks last week, and it's completely MISERABLE. takes a few tries to start up. Today I reset the RAM (alt-option-P-R startup) and it -seemed- better. Might be the placebo effect though.

[stomachmonkey]

Try an SMC reset.

Google process for your particular box.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

I thought everything was supposed to get snappier.

I haven't "upgraded" since 10.6. Can't afford to lose Rosetta.

[porsche4life]

I'm still on snow leopard too. It ain't broke! Why fix it! thinking about getting a Mac air soon anyways. So my pro will become a desk machine at that point.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Works fine for me but I'm starting to get sick of the "change for change's sake" constant upgrade treadmill that Apple seems to be getting on.

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Works fine for me but I'm starting to get sick of the "change for change's sake" constant upgrade treadmill that Apple seems to be getting on.

agreed. my macbook pro runs fine on mavericks. i'm waiting before i go to yosemite.

[Z-man]

Have you done the typical defrag / scan disk / clear out your cache administrative stuff?

How old is your Mac? Mrs. Z-man has an older (2006? 2007?) Macbook Pro, and we're running Mavericks as well - it is a bit slower than before, but still bearable at this point.

-Z

[allaircooled]

My 2011 Macbook Pro has been running fine on the 10.9.5 update.

It does seem with everyone of these upgrades though boot times are getting longer. I remember when I first bought a Mac in 2006 and it only took a few seconds to boot and maybe 3 seconds to shut down. I was impressed by that but now it's like I'm waiting for my work PC to start and shut down.

I'm going to wait awhile before I go to Yosemite.

[Cajundaddy]

My Macbook Pro is a 2009 and runs Maverick just fine as long as I don't have a bunch of sneaky toolbars, adware, and background programs sucking on my ram. Clean cache, clean startup files, and periodic "repair permissions" maintenance keeps her healthy. I currently only have 2G ram but will upgrade to 8G soon to improve my music software performance.

[RANDY P]

my 2011 MBP did that crap recently + fan going on a lot till a pram reset, and I fixed permissions yesterday.

Seems to be OK now. I'm on Yosemite- Mavericks was OK for me.

rjp

[jyl]

2011 Mac Mini on Yosemite. No issues.

[widgeon13]

My MBR does this every once in a while.

Have no idea what causes it but its only in Safari.

[Deschodt]

I had issues initially with Yosemite... especially internet speed... I did my due diligence, reset PRAM, rebuilt permissions, made more space on hard drive for memory cache, eventually it got back to normal. I believe that spotlight was indexing everything in the background and killing performance... took 2 days, I'm not sure what did it but a couple days and the usual fixes took care of it...

Bear in mind you should not upgrade to the latest OS until about 2 weeks after it comes out, and also that the last 2 have been memory hogs. If you have an older mac with 4Gig or less, stick with Mountain lion or whatever you got...

[RANDY P]

I do remember my permissions messed up list being huge after Yosemite.

The PRAM reset fixed the beach balls and my cooling fan going crazy. Haven't heard it since.

rjp

[Deschodt]

It's important to remember Apple is taking the tough road here... It's an in-place system upgrade, attempting to keep all your **** intact and working... it's a miracle it works at all... A clean re-image is a safe way to go, that's all you'd ever do with Windows... So keeping that in mind, it's really not bad ! (not being a fan boy here, I've worked as sys admin int he past and built Windows images and packages for a living, so I appreciate Apple's efforts)

[pitargue]

I've updated to Yosemite on my mac book air. All seems fine. Heck, even wifi connects faster than yosemite. All good for me.

[techweenie]

Originally Posted by pitargue

I've updated to Yosemite on my mac book air. All seems fine. Heck, even wifi connects faster than yosemite. All good for me.

+1 on Air and iMac. Waited a few days and monitored the forums, but no major issues, so I installed and it's been good.

Spinning beach ball could be a symptom of a dying hard drive.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally Posted by Deschodt

It's important to remember Apple is taking the tough road here... It's an in-place system upgrade, attempting to keep all your **** intact and working... it's a miracle it works at all...

In the Windows world this comment might hold water.

However Apple controls every aspect of the supply chain. They have no excuse except their own sloppiness.

[HardDrive]

I did PRAM reset, SMC reset (took the battery out, required finding a Y1 screwdriver, major PIA. Stupid unibody design without a removable battery!), verified and repaired disk permissions.

On a reboot, I get a desktop after 3min50sec. Clicking on Google Chrome, I get a usable browser 2 minutes later. Desktop seems to be much better, but 4 minute boot times? Really?

This machine is probably 5ish years old at this point, I guess I shouldn't complain too much. Thats a pretty solid run in the world of computers. Still, disappointing that this all happened suddenly with that last update. Something about it threw a wrench in the gears.