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I took the plunge and updated to OSX Mavericks last night.
Since most of you are Windows, and always share your own war stories, I will let you know about mine, in this thread.
First, it took about 3 hours to download with home cable Internet (usually 126K).
Second, it too 2 hours to actually install after that. I hate it when the progress window says "less than a minute", for 30 minutes! Makes me very nervous something has hung! (In the different context from "hung" used in most posts here).
Displays.
Far fewer options for setting the aspect ratio and resolution of your screen.
It is taking a bit of an adjustment for me, with astigmatism. I typically have to enlarge print on all web pages, via the zoom button that already exists.
That works, but it does alter the layout a bit.
Notes and Apple Mail.
Notes are now in their own App, called Notes. No longer are Notes stored in Apple Mail.
Office:2008.
Dead. Broken. You MUST upgrade to Office:2011.
I just did. 30-day free trial, then $9.99/month.
I only use Excel, since it handles pasted data from web page tables, differently, and better than Open Office (You have to do Edit > Paste Special and select Tab Delimited), and Numbers which doesn't seem to even parse delimited unformatted data.
If I find something better in the first 30 days, I'll ditch the bitch and make the switch.
App Updates.
2 hours later this morning, I'm at 2.78GB downloaded of 3.28GB of updates to existing installed Apps.
Not counting Office:2011, which is at about 25% after 15 minutes.
Actually, 78GB downloaded of 3.28GB of updates, was for *ONE* App. I have a dozen more!
Firefox.
It updated itself last week or so. No indication that it did, or needed to do, any updates since I installed Mavericks last night.
Actually, 2.78GB downloaded of 3.28GB of updates, was for *ONE* App. I have a dozen more!
My mouse has been acting up the past couple of weeks since the last Java update. Single clicks become double... some single clocks don't do anything... click and drag highlighting doesn't always highlight all the text...
Created MS Office account subscription. Downloaded software. Got them configured and personalized - in the Installer.
Launch Excel and Word, new logos for Excel:2011 and Word:2011. And both crash. Stupid window pops up saying it had to close.
Now, who do I call????
Well, I called Tech Support. The effort wasn't all that painful, as they had me install a remote viewer, and they then were able to control my mouse and see the screen.
Bottom line, there is something conflicting with Office! Their error procedure found that.
They want me to call Apple, and have Apple fix that!! I asked "Fix What?". MS didn't know.
(Laughter).
We did create a second User account on my machine, and the new Office runs fine from the new User. Not sure I want to be switching Users in order to use Office.
he said that that "work around" was a great solution to my problem. I told him we Mac users don't do "work arounds," that's why were Mac users, not Windows users. I told him MS has 30 days to fix the problem that it is detecting, or I cancel my subs during the 30-day free trial. He said that was fin with him. I told him that's not how we do business in America.
The slight advantage of Office over Open Office may not be worth the $9.99/month subscription to own it.
Dock.
No longer can we remove items in the Dock by point-click-drag. Now, left mouse > Options > Remove.
Open Office.
Launched Open Office, says there is an update. Downloaded it from SourceForge, launched it.
Error message that OSX can't open it, because of Unidentified Developer.
Someone didn't get a memo.
hi nick,
you can remove items from the dock- just dram them a litte more upwards than you are used to :-)
The fix is to open Preferences > Security and there will be a message waiting that OpenOffice was not opened, with a button to Open Anyway. Just clicked it, opened it.
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Originally Posted by nickbaer
Sure enough!!! I just removed Excel from the Dock, by dragging more upwards than before!
It is so good to have old friends stop in here again! Old friends with right answers!
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Originally Posted by DEVELISH
After successfully getting 99% of my legacy .csv files created in Excel working with OpenOffice Calc, I accidentally double-clicked on one, which launched Excel.
Guess what? Excel opened without error!
But better that after a couple of hours of learning the ins-and-outs of OO Calc, than before learning what I now know. Now I know I can save $9.99/month, by canceling my Office 365 subscription.
So far, the only thing I don't like about OO Calc vs Excel- when you import data from a .xls document created by someone else, and they saved it with Quotes surrounding data fields, you can't filter out those Quotes. You can filter out Quoted fields when saving, not when loading.
I can Find/Replace each time, or add a str_replace statement to my PHP script that analyses the data.
With one vendor's Stats, OO Calc misinterprets a field as two fields... so I had to fiddle with my PHP script to look for the dollar amount in a different field. It worked.
So far, the two things abut Mavericks I dislike:
1) The font it uses for EVERYTHING, from Finder, to Mail, to Facebook, is a "narrow" font. My eyes are dizzy from living in a land of TALL words.
2) In Finder, for decades we have been able to color highlight file names. Now, instead of putting color highlight behind all the letters of the file name, it places a teeeeeeeny colored dot at the right of the line.
Like that's helpful to be able to visually spot what you are looking for, from 3 feet away!
I took my iPhone and iPad to the Apple Store on the Las Vegas Strip this afternoon, to meet the new addition to the family: my new MacBook Pro 13.
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As I posted before, I really need a laptop in Europe, where hotels turn out NOT to have WiFi in rooms as advertised, which leaves me with my macMini to have to set up in the Lobby. Now, I can use a flash drive to port files from Mini to MacBook and head to the Lobby to FTP to my web host in Germany.
I was going to get a $300 Chrome Book, but there's so many new free Apps with OSX Mavericks, that I decided to spend a little extra on the MacBook Pro 13, and have portability and interoperability between all of my machines and devices. It's an Aluminum machine, with black keys, just beautiful.
That, and a couple of my movies have done well lately.
I'm probably going to switch from FCP 7 (never did do FCP X) to iMovie 10! I watched a 90-minute webinar sponsored by Moviola yesterday. Looks like iMovie 10 will be most of FCP X, with a "consumer" interface. With iMovie 10 free on my Mini and MacBook Pro 13 because it comes as part of Mavericks (along with iPhoto, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, to name a handful), it is kind of a no-brainer.
Spent 3 hours at the Apple Store, picking up my MacBook Pro 13, cracking it open, updating to Mavericks on their ethernet, and in between, sitting in on a Workshop on iCloud.
I bought the machine as a "refurb", at 20% discount ($999 + tax), with one-year warranty, plus free shipping, shipped directly to the Apple Store, where I spent 3 hours in Personal Setup's ethernet and the iCloud Workshop. Plus, I clicked-through to Apple via my Bank's virtual mall, so I earn 2% cash back next statement cycle. For you Europeans, in the US, tax is added on at checkout, depending on the State, and sometimes the City, you live in. We don't have national Sales Tax (VAT) as you do, and product prices are before tax. Tax was 8.1%.
10 point Trivia Question: What color is the ethernet cable at the Apple Store?