How to upgrade weather cat current mac from OS X 9.5 (mavericks) to Yosemite

[nowait]

I'm searching and trying to find out the "gotchas" to How to upgrade my weathercat mac mini from OS X 10.9.5 (mavericks) to Yosemite.  What's the best way?

Thanks,

nowait

[Blicj11]

When I did it, I made a backup of the entire drive in case something blew up and then I downloaded Yosemite from Apple and followed the instructions. It cranked away for about 3 hours and converted every thing without a glitch.

[nowait]

Thanks!  Started my full back to a second drive.  Downloaded and updated the drivers for my serial to USB device.  Downloading Yosemite now.

[Blicj11]

Let us know how it turns out.

[elagache]

Dear nowait, Blick, and WeatherCat sys-admins,

I'm searching and trying to find out the "gotchas" to How to upgrade my weathercat mac mini from OS X 10.9.5 (mavericks) to Yosemite.  What's the best way?

I'm guessing this comment is too late but for anyone else contemplating this upgrade, caveat emptor.

WeatherCat 2 runs on OS 10.7.5 or later.  The WeatherCat 2.2.0 upgrade only requires OS 10.9 and that's only if you want the Twitter upload capability.  So Mavericks is still perfectly adequate for a while.  Most of the additional functionality of Yosemite has no value for a dedicated Mac running WeatherCat.  Honestly, Yosemite doesn't add much if you aren't looking for iOS integration, so it only makes sense for a general use machine when you have iOS devices.

On the downside, Yosemite isn't anywhere close to the stability of Mavericks and Mavericks was not as stable as Mountain Lion, etc.  Until Apple really makes a very serious attempt to correctly implement what was supposed to be in Yosemite, you are better off with an older version of OS X so long as Apple continues to provide the security updates.  Of the three general use Macs in this house, only my MacBook Pro is on Yosemite, the other two on are Mavericks.

Edouard

[Blicj11]

My experience has been a little different than yours, Edouard. I am running Yosemite on all three Macs at our house and I like it. It's tight integration with iOS is very helpful. I do agree that Apple needs to slow down the upgrades and give us the equivalent of a Snow Leopard, where the goal is stabilisation and reduced footprint, rather than new features. Let's get a Yosemite that works before we get all hyper ventilated about Capistrano, Ventura, Laguna, LeBrea, Camarillo, Disneyland or whatever the next version is called.

[xairbusdriver]

"LeBrea", as in tar pits?! I'm thinking that will not make the cut for any future Mac OS. Maybe that other major OS...

[elagache]

Dear Blick, X-Air, and WeatherCat sys-admins,

My experience has been a little different than yours, Edouard. I am running Yosemite on all three Macs at our house and I like it. It's tight integration with iOS is very helpful.

Alas, my experiences are indeed very different.  This morning I was simply trying to get Spotify up and running for the day's music and my MacBook Pro had a kernel panic.  It took a second reboot to finally get my computer running again.  When I was running LINUX this simply - *NEVER* - happened.  Apple has really taken out the robustness of the UNIX heart of OS X and that's just inexcusable. 

Moreover, I see Apple doing something I really resent.  Apple isn't simply shaking up the lives of end-users, clearly Apple is pushing hard to force developers to change.  That's giving them effectively "busy work" and some developers would rather quit Apple and concentrate on other business.  In the old days, this was Microsoft's stock and trade and was part of the PC industries game to force you to upgrade your computer.  Of course, if the software title you were using was canceled - tough luck.

When Microsoft did this, the carnage wasn't as bad.  Where was a software company going to make more money - on Mac?  However, the Mac is still very much a minority in the computer world, so companies can punt on Apple and still make a living.  So a number of software products that I really depend upon have been abandoned and I'm hopping mad about it.  Apple's own spell-checking infrastructure cannot hold a candle to SpellCatcher and given that the main developer died after a brief battle with cancer, it is unlikely this program will ever come back.  In a case like this, I think Apple has enough cash to pay for the good ideas of a developer how has fallen and give every Mac and iOS user a first-class experience when creating text.  How Apple can be so backward about something as fundamental as creating quality prose . . . it really should worry us all.

"LeBrea", as in tar pits?! I'm thinking that will not make the cut for any future Mac OS. Maybe that other major OS...

As far as I'm considered OS 10.10 - is -the La Brea Tar Pits of Mac OS.  I just hope nothing Apple ever releases in the future is worse!

Edouard