I swear that with every update my computer gets slower. It's as if apple are trying to force us to upgrade our equipment which is a pretty hostile marketing ploy. With latest Mavericks security update my Macbook is running slower than ever and at first it wouldn't even start up properly until I read on a forum to try Opt-Comm-R-P pressed down while starting up. *** Apple?????
Here's the truth. Despite the best will in the world, when an OS makes more resources available programmers will use them. The first computer I worked on had 32K of ferrite core! Did the next generation with 16Mb of memory available to the software run any faster? Not really because the compilers and the coders were lazy about their use of the resources. When you have a faster processor and more addressable memory you can be sloppy and no-one will know, except those people running on the older hardware!
However, I have a slight belief in the conspiracy theory. Remember the concept of built-in obsolescence? It would not surprise me to find that code in the OS detects the hardware model and throws away processor cycles to encourage sales. I have seen some very suspicious performance form my iPads and MacMini when OS upgrades occur.
mal55 wrote:
Here's the truth. Despite the best will in the world, when an OS makes more resources available programmers will use them. The first computer I worked on had 32K of ferrite core! Did the next generation with 16Mb of memory available to the software run any faster? Not really because the compilers and the coders were lazy about their use of the resources. When you have a faster processor and more addressable memory you can be sloppy and no-one will know, except those people running on the older hardware!
My 2011 MBA runs faster under El Cap than it did under Yosemite. Not all programmers are incompetent. Your conspiracy theory is nonsense.Apple has been making very serious efforts to make sure that newer versions of iOS run well on older versions of the hardware.
jacks2axe wrote:
Quad core macbook pro that is 3 years old should have no problems. No they are not forcing me but they sell it as a security update because they didn't get it right the first time and it seemed like it would be an important update. Progress to some hinderance to others. I guess I should just go with the old "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
Security update is there to close/patch a loophole, it happens all the time. Would you prefer to left it open?
Maybe you should try and restore your Mac, many updates can messed up your system (old pref file, etc..)
jacks2axe wrote:
I swear that with every update my computer gets slower. It's as if apple are trying to force us to upgrade our equipment which is a pretty hostile marketing ploy. With latest Mavericks security update my Macbook is running slower than ever and at first it wouldn't even start up properly until I read on a forum to try Opt-Comm-R-P pressed down while starting up. *** Apple?????
Nobody is forcing you to update.
All old hardware cannot keep up with all the new software features and hardware innovation. It's called progress.
Quad core macbook pro that is 3 years old should have no problems. No they are not forcing me but they sell it as a security update because they didn't get it right the first time and it seemed like it would be an important update. Progress to some hinderance to others. I guess I should just go with the old "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
FWIW, I am running iMac early 2009 with OS X 10.10 Yosemite with only 4GB RAM and video only with 256 MB.
I still runs very well.
Yes I should probably get it serviced/restored 🙂 I just don't know how to restore and the nearest mac store is over an hours drive.
The main issue I'm having is with Pages and Numbers software taking forever to open files and Garage band has become very sluggish too.
My late 2009, 27 inch iMac with a 3.06 Ghz dual core CPU, 16 GBs of RAM and 256 Mbs VRAM GPU appears to run OS X 10.11.6 El Cap with no appreciable or noticeable issues.
is every update designed to slow your computer down?
