El Capitan is certainly still a bit buggy, its only version 10.11.1 so far, a couple more point releases and it will be solid. I’d recommend you look into replacing your internal HD with an SSD. I did this on my 17 inch 2011 mac book pro and the difference it made is amazing. I can easily get another 2 years out of this system after swapping in the SSD.
OWC has install guides for all mac models, its not that hard to swap one in.
Another vote for the SSD. It rocks!
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Also … “Mavericks” … “Yosemite” … “El Capitan” …
WTH happened to codename thematic consistency?
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They’re all California landmarks, so there’s the theme, though I’ll admit Mavericks is the oddball if you don’t know much of surfing. A more cohesive set of names might have been El Capitan, Half Dome, Ahwahnee, Tioga, Tuolumne, all of which are in Yosemite.
I’ve fallen in love with virtual machines. VMs mean not having to upgrade the operating system you like in order to have the latest and newest: keep the old AND install the new!
I haven’t had much problem with Yosemite but El Capitan seems better-behaved.
My everyday native OS is still 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) and for a similar reason: Eudora. It won’t run in anything later and I’ll be damned if I’m going to switch email programs. Nothing else is anywhere near as nice.
I’ve been using a Mac for about four years and really miss Eudora. It was a great program. My workplace uses Windows 8 :mad: and I feel like punching the computer every time I have to use Outlook.
There’s a bunch of plugins for Thunderbird that aim to reproduce most of eudoras functionality.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search/?q=eudora
If its not on that list, I’m curious what exactly is so great about eudora that you’d keep using a 5 year old version of OS X just to use it?
First and foremost, my mail is already in it. I have email going back to 1991. Zillions and zillions of emails. Eudora launches effortlessly and has no problem with my keep-them-forever policy. Most other email programs choke on handling this many.
Second, searching. I can queue up a search on only the email folders named “Inbox Archives 2002-06” and “Inbox Archives 2007-08” for body contains “compact pro” and body contains “faster” and subject does not contain “Info-Mac” and Date is after 1/1/2002 and Date is before 12/31/2008, and it executes very quickly — far more nimble on searches than the last time I tried Thunderchicken even with just a small percent of my email, even though Eudora has to run in emulation on this Intel Mac. And Eudora’s search options are just more versatile.
Third, separate windows for each and every email folder. I don’t like the single unified window.
Fourth, labels. I use the labels to color my inbound spam, to color-code it according to the recognized type of spam. Speaking of which,
Fifth, client-side filters. Eudora’s are more versatile and powerful. If a given inbound email has at this point already been marked with label “Cell and Tech” by prior filters, and personality (i.e., the email account to which it was sent) is my main account and headers contain any char string that includes “bestbuy” or includes “staples” then if body contains “HTML” or body contains “http” then move it to trash, set status to read, do not notify me, change the subject line to “cell and tech spam”, and skip doing any subsequent filtering.
Sixth, easier management of different email accounts. Thunderbird has the SMTP Server settings abstracted off by themselves and you have to set different SMTP servers up in a space apart from where you set up the different email accounts.
But finally, just plain familiarity. I don’t want to learn a new app that behaves differently.
If I were you, I’d experiment and see if I could get the Windows version of Eudora working in Wine, and see if it works just as well. Booting up a VM just for one program seems excessive. I’ve only ever done it with games–and now all those games will work on Dosbox.
I run VMs all the time. At some point I may switch to running 10.6.8 (and Eudora) in a VM and running 10.11.x natively.
Both reasons I liked PowerMail so much.
And … exactly the reason I didn’t like Eudora. All the separate windows just felt cluttered to me. Of course, that may have been simply because my first monitor was 13".
I recently upgraded 3 machines to Yosemite and haven’t experienced any problems. All are recent machines though.
AAAAAANNND … another update.
I finally found time to upgrade to 10.11.1, “El Capitan”. It’s been about a week now, and all of the “machine” problems that cropped up in Yosemite have gone away. My Mac-using coworker has also reported that upgrading to El Capitan seems to have fixed everything.
I’m trying out PowerMail again … I launched it, and it promptly downloaded several e-mails from mid-July, which was about the time I switched to Thunderbird (so T-bird apparently failed to download those messages), and downloaded my current mail with no problem. I’ll keep using it to see if it has any trouble. Because I’m hating Thunderbird. I send e-mail to certain people, and it fails to retrieve their replies, for some reason. I thought they weren’t replying until I logged into the Webmail version of my e-mail, and there were their replies.
So, yeah, I maintain that there was something fucked up with Yosemite.
But you would never hear any details from Apple.
I love their products, and it is the “any color you like as long as it’s black” that I like, since they do a pretty darned good job of defining “black” in their products.
But part of their mystique is buttressed by hiding any defects in their products.
Weird stuff creeps in during upgrades and gets silently resolved in future releases, but if you search for the particular problem you find deafening silence.
When I installed Leopard, my HP printer stopped functioning in double-sided mode. Apple techs acted like they had never heard of this problem, but it was present in two machines, one brand-new–clearly a defect in Leopard and/or the drivers that came baked in the product.
When Snow Leopard came out, a year or so later, I took the printer for a spin and joyously found that the printing issue had healed itself.
Yosemite was entirely reliable for me and I’m a Mac developer with 5 systems. El Capitan has been a buggy mess until the most recent 10.11.2 update which has improved it a lot.