How stable is Mavericks?

miralize

Anyone here using it yet? Would love to get the better multiscreen support & the supposed power improvements

Nemeses

Its for the Devs at the min.

miralize

Nemeses wrote: »

Its for the Devs at the min.

I'm aware.

Nemeses

Then it kinda answers your question so.. It wouldn't be suitable for the general public yet..

miralize

Nemeses wrote: »

Then it kinda answers your question so.. It wouldn't be suitable for the general public yet..

Not trying to sound like a dick, but thats not what I asked.

Nemeses

miralize wrote: »

Not trying to sound like a dick, but thats not what I asked.

Non offended.

Not to sound rude to you, but the people that would be answer that question for you would be the developers.

They probably wouldn't be able to answer that question either as they would be testing their own apps on it. Not the OS.

Ask this question when it gets released to the public. You'll get a more accurate answer.

However, I believe power performance is meant to be a lot better than it is now.

banquo

Both of you stop being assholes.

OT, it's moderately stable but devs are reporting different levels of success.

Also worth mentioning that in the next seed, though some issues will have been fixed, new ones may arise! So you don't really know what you're getting.

But if multi-monitor support is a huge boon for you, **** it, g'wan!

Sad Professor

I'm not using it myself so I don't really know, but from past experience with OS X betas I would recommend waiting. Stability is usually quite poor. Plus you would have to install it on a separate partition or hard drive.

Nemeses

banquo wrote: »

Both of you stop being assholes.

Bit offended by that to be honest, I was genuinely answering the question.

banquo wrote: »

it's moderately stable but devs are reporting different levels of success.

Also worth mentioning that in the next seed, though some issues will have been fixed, new ones may arise! So you don't really know what you're getting.

But if multi-monitor support is a huge boon for you, **** it, g'wan!

Pretty much spot on.

miralize

Sad Professor wrote: »

I'm not using it myself so I don't really know, but from past experience with OS X betas I would recommend waiting. Stability is usually quite poor. Plus you would have to install it on a separate partition or hard drive.

I remember being on the 10.8 build for about 3 months up to final release. Few issues with stuff like MAMP and Photoshop, but not much else. I'm guessing though that if most of the OS X team is on iOS 7, that probably increases the chances of instability.

cannonballer

its not bad, wait awhile for the next beta release. safari is a little problematic at times but there is still a lot of random crashes in all apps.

your really not missing out on anything special..

taylorconor95

Yeah it's not bad, I got some finder hangs and noticed some other hangs and crashes, but nothing unusable.

I did notice that my DisplayLink (USB VGA connector) driver mustn't have been supported very well, I was only getting ~10fps on that display.

That said I deleted my Mavericks partition after a day or two when I tested some apps on it

Droguser

installed it today on macbook air, did inplace upgrade from mountain lion, and office 2011 works very well.


havent had much time to play with it yet, but the install went very smoothly, even with filevault enabled, and disk encrypted.

nialler

To be honest if IOS 7 beta 1 was anything to go by I wouldn't put mavericks near a machine you weren't will to sacrifice all data on.

Simple, if you can afford to lose everything on the mac, use it, if not don't.

I lasted a week with IOS7 then rolled back.

Sad Professor

nialler wrote: »

To be honest if IOS 7 beta 1 was anything to go by I wouldn't put mavericks near a machine you weren't will to sacrifice all data on.

Simple, if you can afford to lose everything on the mac, use it, if not don't.
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This is true of all betas since you usually can't upgrade from a beta to the final build. I would never install a beta on my primary device or partition no matter how stable it was.

redman85

Got a quick question for anyone on mavericks.

Is it possible to run the the same app in full screen mode on two different monitors? for example I have two separate photoshop files open in full screen mode, one on each screen.

miralize

redman85 wrote: »

Got a quick question for anyone on mavericks.

Is it possible to run the the same app in full screen mode on two different monitors? for example I have two separate photoshop files open in full screen mode, one on each screen.

Surely the stumbling block of that would be the fact that there are 2 instances of the same program running.

redman85

miralize wrote: »

Surely the stumbling block of that would be the fact that there are 2 instances of the same program running.

true, but I can have two windows of the same app open at the moment. Photoshop is a different tho.