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Post by drbill on Jun 19, 2016 23:41:39 GMT -6
for the record, there is absolutely no need whatsoever to EVER upgrade beyond Mac OS 10.7.1 for those of us in music/audio production. <<snip>> Anyone have anything different to add to this? Yeah. I have a different feeling. As long as developers of critically needed software only create installers for the current, and maybe one version older software, we are doomed.... I'd call it a conspiracy, but then you'd all think I was crazy....
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Post by donr on Jun 20, 2016 0:08:25 GMT -6
for the record, there is absolutely no need whatsoever to EVER upgrade beyond Mac OS 10.7.1 for those of us in music/audio production. And the damned thing was their very best OS in years. Boot time on a Mac Pro is less than 5 seconds. FIVE SECONDS. It is unreal, it is so fast. And memory management? They never matched it before or after. These are my findings. Anyone have anything different to add to this? Until it becomes incompatible with your software upgrades. What drives OS evolution is contrary to a required dedicated enterprise like DAW reliability. There must be similar angst in other businesses, with the personal computing OS rollercoaster. Mac, I'm still on Yosemite. That said, if Apple going forward is doubling down on encryption for general computation/communication, I can dig it as a platform wide road map, even as it messes up our software which relies on their hardware. Bob is likely right on any performance hit, unnoticed by 99%+ of users. Still, overall, with all the bitching, as someone wishing DAWs as low cost alternative to studio recording hardware since 1990, this year's model is pretty sweet.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jun 20, 2016 15:29:10 GMT -6
A lot of the reason for the OS RollerCoaster is the evolution of web browsers and security from malware. This means all software requires compatibility with change. If you lock down a system, don't connect the internet or load any files onto it, you are probably fine but in today's real world applications this isn't very practical like it was 15 years ago.
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Post by jakeharris on Jun 21, 2016 20:34:19 GMT -6
Still on Snow Leopard. Same system for 8-years without an OS upgrade... All I do is swap out the drives.
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Post by jayson on Jun 26, 2016 8:48:26 GMT -6
The constant treadmill of these updates gets pretty aggravating. It's the cyber version of the Bataan Death March. All the big names do it constantly: Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, AVID etc. (I always love the Adobe CS updates - all they do is move the same functions from one menu to another - they haven't actually changed the functionality of the software in any fundamental way in years.) But I guess you can see why they do it - you have to keep the code writers busy in order to justify paying them. I just wish that MS and Apple could find something more constructive for them to focus on. Needless to say I was pretty PO'd when they casually destroyed my laptop's capability of using my Apogee Duet.
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Post by lpedrum on Nov 12, 2016 14:34:49 GMT -6
While we're on this topic, what's the overall consensus of El Capitan? I've been thinking of upgrading from Mavericks but I see grumblings on this thread.
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Post by wiz on Nov 12, 2016 15:10:34 GMT -6
While we're on this topic, what's the overall consensus of El Capitan? I've been thinking of upgrading from Mavericks but I see grumblings on this thread. I ran El Capitan fine.... I have gone to Seirra in the last two weeks, it runs fine too. I have a MOTU 16A and I run Logic Pro X and Final Cut Pro X. The only peripheral I use which might have been affected is a Roland UM One Midi to USB interface.... I grabbed the driver update from Roland and now it runs fine too. The plug ins I have, Waves, Slate, IK Multimedia, Wave Arts all running fine cheers Wiz
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