Master26A

Q: Does Yosemite Improve or Reduce Performance?

Hi there,

 

I'm a user of a Macbook Pro 15 Retina from 2013, and I'm considering upgrading to Yosemite. Although I do want to upgrade for the new look and features, I do have one major reservation. If Yosemite is going to make my computer less responsive, laggy ect. then I'm going to hugely regret the decision. For me Mavericks is a great OS, and so a performance hit would seriously put me off. Can anyone share some experience they've had with the full version please?

 

Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated!

MacBook Pro with Retina display

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 5:48 AM

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  • by clintonfrombirmingham,

    clintonfrombirmingham clintonfrombirmingham Oct 17, 2014 5:55 AM in response to Master26A
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    Oct 17, 2014 5:55 AM in response to Master26A

    In my experience, and I've been using Yosemite for quite a while now, Yosemite is faster, more efficient and the most stable release of OS X since Snow Leopard. I don't hesitate to recommend the upgrade if your machine supports it - and yours, obviously, does.

     

    Good luck,

     

    Clinton

     

    MacBook Pro (15” Late 2011), OS X Yosemite 10.10, 16GB Crucial RAM, 960GB M500 Crucial SSD, 27” Apple Thunderbolt Display

  • by Master26A,

    Master26A Master26A Oct 17, 2014 5:59 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham
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    Oct 17, 2014 5:59 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

    Thanks, I appreciate the speedy response! I'll most likely be downloading it tonight

  • by MatejP84,

    MatejP84 MatejP84 Oct 17, 2014 6:00 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham
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    Oct 17, 2014 6:00 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

    Just updated my mac pro 2013 today and went from normal performance to very bad performance.

     

    System is responsive, but it looks like GPU's cannot render stuff in right time. Whenever context inside windows changes and it needs redrawing it takes up to a second to redraw everything back. For example: open system preferences and just changing category does that.

     

    In addition to that photoshop CC 2014.2 started to work very slow now even a normal brush or pencil lag behind up to a second. Impossible to work with that now so photoshop is broken under yosemite.

     

    Previously only 3D performance was bad, now even 2D performance is bad. Something is wrong or with Yosemite or my computer.

  • by clintonfrombirmingham,

    clintonfrombirmingham clintonfrombirmingham Oct 17, 2014 6:07 AM in response to MatejP84
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    Oct 17, 2014 6:07 AM in response to MatejP84

    MatejP84

     

    It may be a combination of both - all the Adobe CC 2014 apps just fly for me, the interface is faster than it was in Mavericks, and the memory use is even more efficient. Which model Mac do you have (e.g., "15-inch Late 2011" MacBook Pro)?

     

    Clinton

     

    MacBook Pro (15” Late 2011), OS X Yosemite 10.10, 16GB Crucial RAM, 960GB M500 Crucial SSD, 27” Apple Thunderbolt Display

  • by MatejP84,

    MatejP84 MatejP84 Oct 17, 2014 6:13 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham
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    Oct 17, 2014 6:13 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

    Mac pro 2013 6-core 2xD500 512SSD.

     

    I never had any good performance with that computer except disk. SSD is **** fast but that is about it.

    All 3D applications I mostly run are slow and I'm having like 10-30FPS on average during my work.

    I tried even games (WoW) and it is unplayable. I get 60FPS standing still, when I move camera it drops down to 16 sometimes.

     

    Now after update even photoshop began to slow down and I make a stroke with pen and I get result on screen around 1 second later. CPU isn't even used so much - under 100% and I'm getting out of ideas what might be wrong.

     

    Under windows 8.1 in bootcamp everything works perfectly.

  • by Zanaelf,

    Zanaelf Zanaelf Oct 17, 2014 6:42 AM in response to Master26A
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    Oct 17, 2014 6:42 AM in response to Master26A

    Well that depends on your hardware, if you have older hardware, the memory hog of 8GB would slow your down. The memory compression does increase memory performance if you have reasonably modern hardware in your machine and lagging is less noticeable in basic things like browsing, word processing, and minor photo editing. Soon as you need more umph out of your mac, with 3D rendering/modeling, video editing, gaming etc, Yosemite is going to be a problem when performance comes along. I cant make sense of what is eating the RAM juice with the introduction of the Mac Metro Retro of the 1990s GUI which used less RAM back in the days...

     

    My personal thoughts on the GUI design of the windows elements such as windows, buttons, menus etc concerned, is irritating, annoying and appalling..., don't mind it so much on my iPhone... but in my workspace , my creative space , my mac , its a simple no no, and raises my stress levels,  and the infection of flat GUI design is just about almost any ware, which won't encourage me to upgrade until the flat infection dies...

     

    I had an older mac, and Mountain Lion ran on it better than Mavericks... but bought new mac with preinstalled mavericks , it does its job well, since I feel the hardware and the software seem to be well integrated, an upgrade would ruin the relationship.

     

    I think that new iMac retina would be the bomb in running Yosemite ... but Mavericks would run better on it... to get more juice...

     

    I personally not happy at first glance despite the wonderful cool features Yosemite offers, the flatness is first put off, and second put off, it is a RAM oink.

     

    Yosemite ? No Thank you, Mavericks does what I need it to and it does not feel like I am lost in the second dimension.

  • by jetoff41,

    jetoff41 jetoff41 Oct 17, 2014 8:06 AM in response to Master26A
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    Oct 17, 2014 8:06 AM in response to Master26A

    The performance of Yosemite is very bad. Lags over lags EVERYWHERE. --> MBPro Retina 15 !!!

     

    Apple gave us a PRE PRE PRE Beta. I don't know how Tim Cook and his colleagues can still work with that.
    Yesterday I had the chance to use an iPhone 4S with iOS 6 - and it's faster than my iPhone 5 with iOS 8. That's pitiful...

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Oct 17, 2014 8:07 AM in response to jetoff41
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    Oct 17, 2014 8:07 AM in response to jetoff41

    And there's always one. Try reinstall as it sounds like a faulty install.

  • by jetoff41,

    jetoff41 jetoff41 Oct 17, 2014 8:09 AM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Oct 17, 2014 8:09 AM in response to Terence Devlin

    I'm not the only one who feels like that - a lot of my friends (MB Pro Retina 13 & MB Air 13 etc.) have the same issues...

  • by Darklykoz,

    Darklykoz Darklykoz Oct 17, 2014 8:15 AM in response to jetoff41
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    Oct 17, 2014 8:15 AM in response to jetoff41

    Wheather it improves-reduces performance will depend on your system specifications and year of model...

     

    In the posters case who asked the question pertaining to his machine... who is running a 2013 MBP 15-inch , it should definitely improve performance i believe.

     

    There is no way for example that it will improve performance on a 2007 machine which just meets the minimum requirements for Operating system... But the poster was clear on year of machine and that its an 15-incher.. Which means its one of the two fastest MBP's of 2013...

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Oct 17, 2014 8:19 AM in response to jetoff41
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    Oct 17, 2014 8:19 AM in response to jetoff41

    A lot of your friends? Wow, that many? Well I can tell you that in my experience - both a retina MBP and an iMac - the performance is excellent. But perhaps you and your friends lie? I mean you have no problem calling other people liars so you won't mind me calling you one.

  • by jetoff41,

    jetoff41 jetoff41 Oct 17, 2014 8:26 AM in response to Darklykoz
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    Oct 17, 2014 8:26 AM in response to Darklykoz

    Excuse me, but I'm not an idiot. The MBPro Retina 13 is 2 weeks old, and the MB Air 13 is from 2013. And if you don't believe me, you needn't. In my class, 6 people are having MacBooks. As well as lot of our teachers - and they have the same problems with Yosemite.

     

    My machine: 2012, i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB

     

    -> I'm sure this should meet the requirements for Yosemite. But please open iTunes for example and tell me that scrolling through albums doesn't lag!

     

    I AM a fan of Apple, I own an iPhone, iPad, iMac AND MacBook - but I don't know why my battery duration shrank and the system is lagging all the time.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Oct 17, 2014 8:28 AM in response to jetoff41
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    Oct 17, 2014 8:28 AM in response to jetoff41

    I have no idea if you're an idiot or not, though our interaction is removing what lingering doubts I had. What I do know is that you're calling other people liars and that is bad mannered and rude. Perhaps you should re-read my first post, it suggests a course of action.

  • by snig27,

    snig27 snig27 Oct 17, 2014 6:01 PM in response to Master26A
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    Oct 17, 2014 6:01 PM in response to Master26A

    I'm having IU issues on it. It's very laggy with a noticeable sluggish response to both the mouse and the keyboard. Running a late 2012 MBP 15" with 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 and 8GB.

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