All Things Mac/ Apple

[urbanwoodsman]

24hr Apple stores are awesome.

[Graeme]

Just upgraded my four year old Macbook from Leopard (cough) to Mavericks. It was getting a bit unstable after four years, but feels a lot happier now. It all went smoothly, but I did a bare metal install to get rid of all the cruft.

It's the second machine I've done updated, as I did my work machine yesterday. That went OK, except I had to fiddle around with getting IntelliJ to behave.

And now I'm just getting used to the reversed scroll…

[Megatron1505]

I reset the scroll back to how I like it in system preferences.

[Graeme]

That's probably the sensible thing to do. I just figured that I'd try to adapt.

[Giles]

When you get used to it, it is so much more logical….

[shoque]

^ Best thing that happened to touchpads ever.

[mclaincausey]

The best thing that ever happened to touchpads is apple period. The glass trackpad and gestures is the only acceptable pointer input device IMO.

[shoque]

I cannot even go back to another one, not even the thinkpad ones which i used to like a lot.

[Chris]

@urbanwoodsman:

24hr Apple stores are awesome.

Interesting- I wouldn't think they'd have enough for traffic to justify the expense.  Then again, Apple has enough cash on hand to run their stores for years without a single sale.

[mclaincausey]

Even on a per store basis it can fund itself. Highest net per square foot in all of retail.

[DougNg]

@Chris:

@urbanwoodsman:

24hr Apple stores are awesome.

Interesting- I wouldn't think they'd have enough for traffic to justify the expense.  Then again, Apple has enough cash on hand to run their stores for years without a single sale.

How much more could it possibly cost? To keep the lights on and pay a couple kids minimum wage? They're already paying the rent

[toddjcoley]

with the new mac os, it says you can surf the web longer. now is this an os (eg google) thing or just safari?

[Snowy]

^Code optimizations make it all run better.

[mclaincausey]

No more pornus interruptus!

[JCar2666]

Just tried downloading Maverick onto my MacBook Air.  Now it's telling me install failed and my Macintosh HD is damaged and can't be repaired.  What the fuck!

[Snowy]

That's not going to be a fun place to recover from. Rest assured your data is intact, maybe just not the OS itself.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

Would be the path forwards I'd try. Goodluck!

[JCar2666]

Thanks Snowy.  I'm reinstalling at the moment.  Not sure how much will be lost.  If all is lost I'm not concerned.  I don't really keep a lot saved on my Air

[Megatron1505]

Exactly the same thing happened to Pam's MacBook, but she was going from Snow Leopard to Mavericks. My plan is to reinstall her OS from the original disks and then restore her last time machine back up.

The only weird thing is that when I tried to restore from her time machine backup straight away it did not recognise the external drive.

[Megatron1505]

Continuation of this horror story, I have had to completely erase the HD, re-partition it and restore from time machine back up of Leopard. I then have to reinstall Snow Leopard and finally reinstall Mavericks and hope it doesn't crash again.

[Graeme]

Megatron, you don't need to install Snow Leopard to upgrade to Mavericks. Yes, I know it's an official requirement, but you can get around it. I did.

Basically you need to edit a config file on your hard disk. There's instructions here, and it's relatively easy to do if you're at all computer literate.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2056564/how-to-install-mavericks-over-leopard.html

What I'd do is build an installer disk onto a USB drive from your machine, wipe the hard disk in Minitron's and go from there.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install-drive.html

Anyone fancy a red Mac Pro? It's going to be in the RED auction towards the end of November with an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000.