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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 pogster,

    pogster pogster Oct 17, 2014 6:09 PM in response to Master26A
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    Oct 17, 2014 6:09 PM in response to Master26A

    My macbook is a late 2008, the iMac early 2008 and both are equal if not slightly faster than 10.9.5. Both machines have 4 gigs of ram. I have no complaints. The downside is they lack the necessary hardware to run Continuity or Handoff and all that fine stuff so for older machines Yosemite is basically a visual makeover of Mavericks.

  • by Zanaelf,

    Zanaelf Zanaelf Oct 17, 2014 10:05 PM in response to pogster
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    Oct 17, 2014 10:05 PM in response to pogster

    Have you tried using creative apps such as art programs , photoshop, manga studio, 3d rendering or modelling apps other than typing office documents and web browsing ?

  • by ssls6,

    ssls6 ssls6 Oct 17, 2014 10:10 PM in response to Master26A
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    Oct 17, 2014 10:10 PM in response to Master26A

    I benched marked it extensively and for general computation (finite element stuff, video conversion), 10.10 is just as fast as 10.9 or 10.8.  Graphic performance is better with Yosemite by a little (Heaven 4 for example).  Yosemite does have a lot of translucent effects which taxes my lower end machines but only during fast desktop changes.

     

    When you first install yosmitty, the system reindexes and your first TM backup will take much longer than usual but once that's done, it should not feel any slower from my experience on multiple machines.

  • by Manuel Manev,

    Manuel Manev Manuel Manev Oct 17, 2014 10:15 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Oct 17, 2014 10:15 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    I have been using the Mac OS for about 2 months and  I can say that the 10.10 update slows down the performance.

  • by snig27,

    snig27 snig27 Oct 18, 2014 1:54 AM in response to Master26A
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    Oct 18, 2014 1:54 AM in response to Master26A

    I found that resetting the PRAM resolved my issue with lagging. Fingers Xed

  • by seduc,

    seduc seduc Oct 18, 2014 1:58 AM in response to ssls6
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    Oct 18, 2014 1:58 AM in response to ssls6

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX got 1.5fps more in valley.

  • by Darklykoz,

    Darklykoz Darklykoz Oct 18, 2014 2:05 AM in response to Manuel Manev
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    Oct 18, 2014 2:05 AM in response to Manuel Manev

    Like I said earlier really depends on the system specs and year of laptop wheather it hinders/improves performance.

     

    If you are finding it less functional than before try:

     

    System Preferences->Accessibility->Display->(tick "Reduce Transparency")

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Oct 18, 2014 1:59 AM in response to Manuel Manev
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    Oct 18, 2014 1:59 AM in response to Manuel Manev

    Me too, 2 months. But it got faster, not slower.

  • by Daniesy.ming,

    Daniesy.ming Daniesy.ming Oct 19, 2014 1:06 AM in response to Master26A
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    Oct 19, 2014 1:06 AM in response to Master26A

    Yosemite works horrible on my MBPr late 2013 and also on my hackintosh which is way faster than my laptop. I reverted back to Mavericks until they release some updates to improve performance. Also the battery life is way inferior than Mavericks!

    It seams that Apple's committed on releasing faulty software...

  • by fleuronnedev,

    fleuronnedev fleuronnedev Oct 19, 2014 1:09 AM in response to Master26A
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    Oct 19, 2014 1:09 AM in response to Master26A

    For me, it seems like Yosemite is faster in response to actions

  • by Daniesy.ming,

    Daniesy.ming Daniesy.ming Oct 19, 2014 1:10 AM in response to fleuronnedev
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    Oct 19, 2014 1:10 AM in response to fleuronnedev

    What about your battery life? I personally feel it laggy. Even when i type, it feels slow.

  • by fleuronnedev,

    fleuronnedev fleuronnedev Oct 19, 2014 2:07 AM in response to Daniesy.ming
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    Oct 19, 2014 2:07 AM in response to Daniesy.ming

    What MacBook are you running on? Battery life is great here (I've lost only 10 percent in the last hour using Safari, Vox, Fission, Mail, iMessage, Atom, Evernote, Slack.)

  • by travellingbirder,

    travellingbirder travellingbirder Oct 19, 2014 2:12 AM in response to Master26A
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    Oct 19, 2014 2:12 AM in response to Master26A

    Don't do it, stick with Mavericks until Apple releases a stable version of Yosemite. It is way slower than Mavericks and killed many of my apps.

  • by Tom in London,

    Tom in London Tom in London Oct 19, 2014 2:14 AM in response to Master26A
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    Oct 19, 2014 2:14 AM in response to Master26A

    In terms of speed etc. I find it about the same as Mavericks. If you're talking about visual performance, i.e. the new GUI, I personally find it much worse.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Oct 19, 2014 2:25 AM in response to Zanaelf
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    Oct 19, 2014 2:25 AM in response to Zanaelf

    Zanaelf wrote:

     

    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.

    Yosemite is significantly faster with 8GB on a 2009 MBP than Mavericks or Snow Leopard was.

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