New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

download mavericks: 4 hrs
install mavericks: 42 mins
resolve this:

http://i.imgur.com/HSN79Tm.jpg

7 hrs
download mavericks: 4 hrs
install mavericks: 42 mins

run diskwarrior, sounds like you have a bad directory.

throw hard drive out window, buy new ssd, install mavericks, restore home directory from backup imo

yeah. i did do the disk repair thing, but odds on it's a dying drive. at least i know the backup is okay.

yes buy SSD and see the world from a rocketship

price prohibitive, sadly. i need at least 1/2 tb. also, the mbp is 3.5 yrs old and not really worth putting too much money into.

yeah would be trickier on MBP but I have a 2009 MacBook and the SSD gave it a new life. But you could pull out the optical drive and put in a 128 SSD for $120 in the bay. Then upgrade your dying HD for around the same price and use that for cold storage. (Depends on your workflow, of course. Are you doing a lot of video or photo work?)

oh interesting, cheers. i think the optical drive is hosed anyway. i don't do video work, just web stuff, docs and itunes/iphoto storage.

the plan is to buy a retina mbp next year when i'm a bit more flush.

Dunno. I think a 3.5 y.o. MBP is still worth a memory upgrade and a 200-300 dollar SSD, no? Depends on your needs I guess but I could still get a few years out of such a machine

my 5 y.o. mbp seems fine for everything i put it through

the non-retina mbps are sort of the last apple macbooks that are actually amenable to user upgrading.

damn AA, that blows

cheers nhex. at least my backup is good!

Dunno. I think a 3.5 y.o. MBP is still worth a memory upgrade and a 200-300 dollar SSD, no? Depends on your needs I guess but I could still get a few years out of such a machine

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 26 October 2013 08:09 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes! i did the memory upgrade recently (to 8 gb) and it made a huge difference. my whole incentive to upgrade is for a retina screen, but yeah, this mbp could probably go for another few years.

right now i can get a 1/2 tb ssd for 4x the price of a 1 tb non-ssd. difficult to justify, especially as speed is not really an issue (although dandydonweiner's dual ssd/non-ssd solution really appeals).

i'm doing a dual ssd / hdd setup - 256 ssd and a 1tb hdd

that's my setup on my 2009 iMac. All I have on my MacBook is a 256SSD.

If I could push all my music and photos to the cloud I'd ditch HD life forevah.

If you need 500GB get a hybrid, they are rad

- written on Mid-2010 MBP with a 500GB Seagate Momentus XT

oh, so done. there's a 1tb where i'm going!

fabulous sshd tip, mh. it's already noticeably faster in some ways.

now i'm wishing i'd bought a new drive sooner. i've been scraping through with <10 gb free space for at least two years.

i just (well, the us taxpayer just bought me) an air with a 512gb ssd /braggin

you're welcome

1 maverick tip and 1 questions.

tip: w/ multiple monitors, application switcher (command tab) pops up on whichever monitor you last invoked the dock on (assuming it's hidden, not sure otherwise)

question: why on earth do I have two tiny little finder windows sitting in the middle of my desktop that I can't click on and don't do anything?

i.. don't have that, so i don't know?

however, my nfs mounts no longer work, and i don't even see where to configure them. :/

and screw however killed the ability to switch the dock back to 2D. Always the first thing I do.

my dock stayed 2d during the upgrade

oh, seems you need to put your dock on the side (it should be there anyway unless you are a savage)

dock on the side? that's where all my adobe tools are. I keep it on the bottom, minimized.

caek otm

If your adobes are on a side put your dock on the other

widescreen = put your widgets on the side

you said it, man

I used to think that, but then moving the cursor all the way to the side was annoying me, so I went bottom but minimized. the dock doesn't show any useful information so I don't care if it's on all the time

The other side? The other side is filled with adobe palettes. Here's what InDesign looks like:

https://db.tt/enqNc63U

I think I'll stick with the dock on the bottom thanks.

Your dock should be on the right side unless you are left handed.

anyone else get this error message when trying to install mavericks

This copy of the Install OS X Mavericks application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading.

Delete this copy of the application, and go to the Purchases page of the Mac App Store to download a new copy.

oh dear.........

http://blog.mconserv.net/2013/10/install-os-x-mavericks-application-cant.html

yeah i found that but i was hoping there was something i could do that didnt require all that

that is clicking on one menu item and typing one line of text

i thought to do it i needed to be clean-installing from a usb stick

I don't think so, just from inside the Mavericks installer, I'd think

I'm not sure if this is something mavericks has changed or if my work has coincidentally fucked with its firewall (i feel like that maybe happened around the same time as I updated), but suddenly I can no longer connect to my work exchange account - it just keeps telling me my password is wrong (it's definitely not as my iphone is connecting fine, but of course through activesync hence my wondering if it's firewall-related). Anyone else had this?

The thing that's making me think maybe it isn't mavericks is the fact that my OWA site is at webmail.myarchaicemployers.org/owa, and if I go to that domain in the browser without the /owa directory I get an error 403 because I can't get through the firewall to that address..

(sorry to derail the lust objects thread a bit.. in hindsight I should have prob put this in computer problems thread)

I have noticed that, since installing Mavericks, it now takes my 3-year-old iMac a good 5-10 seconds to wake up from sleeping. Has anyone else noticed this?

I haven't but I have been losing the connection to my Bluetooth keyboard upon waking. Have to reboot to get it to connect again.

i've been noticing i'm more regular sin ce installing mavericks.

I can bench 150 since installing mavericks

holy shit i only just discovered multiple desktops in mavericks

cockahoop

I don't think so, just from inside the Mavericks installer, I'd think

― mh, Monday, October 28, 2013 10:48 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

theres no utilities menu or terminal option unless you boot up into it

:(