Mac upgrade question
 

This should be a great thread?

Anyway, I just downloaded Yosemite and am running the install. The progress bar has not moved in an hour. I keep checking it, no movement. There is no mention of time remaining either.

What do I do? I can't imagine a hard shutdown would be good during an installation. Do I continue to wait?

Either continue to wait, or cancel it and wait for when Apple's not being nailed harder then a ten cent jewish hooker.

Cancel it how? And what does my computers installation have to do with the Apple website? It downloaded close to 6 GB of files. Is there more?

After the 6GB, I was done. It did take a long ass time to "upgrade", and it broke a lot of shit, like Apache, PHP, JRE, etc ... but that almost always happens.

I dislike the new look, but it'll grow on my like always. I don't use Mac OS X for the looks, I use it to put Unix on my desktop for development purposes.

It's probably worth a call to Apple, Sly, or to the local Genius bar. Good luck!

:thumbsup

Nice sentence

Thanks! :thumbsup

I started the update but canceled it as it was downloading pretty slow. I will hold off for a few days and do the update over the weekend. Please post again after you've used it a while and let me know what you think?

One new feature that I am curious about is the ability to answer cellphone calls on your Mac. I updated my iPhone and iPad to the latest IOS and can now answer cellphone calls on my iPad. It's "Ok" but annoying because I'd never use my iPad for that purpose. However, I could really use it on my Mac as I am forever plugged into it via a headset.

That's the feature that I want as well, plus the texting.

Right now the progress bar is still stuck. Not sure what to do. Hard power down?

I assume you are downloading from the App Store so it would be the App Store icon.

You can Force Quit by clicking and hold the icon on the Dock. A popup menu will appear, after a few seconds select "Force Quit"

There is no dock. It's downloaded. I'm looking at a white screen with a progress bar that has barely moved for the last 2 1/2 hours. This is the installation screen. It is frozen.

Swear I have mentioned this once or twice. ;-)

Ok in that case then hold down Command-Option-Shift-Esc for at least 30 seconds.
If no response hit the power button and Shut Down.

I did a power down. Turned it back on and now seems to be installing. 17 minutes left. Did not get a time indicator before.

Finally set! I have no problem with the design so far.

Need to upgrade to iOS8 next.

Hi Sly,

Good to hear! I decided not to wait, and updated 3 of my Macs to the new OS. The download was slow at first but I just let it go in the background and hardly noticed it.

So far everything on all 3 macs seems to work working well. I tested the phone feature and surprise! It works. This is a pretty cool feature because now I can use my mac for all of my voice calls (Skype, Toll free 866 number, and now my cellphone. Pretty cool).

The new interface is different, but I like it. The Maximize button now takes any app full screen which at first I hated, but now I like. So far that's the only thing I have played with.

ill try after read some reviews

You guys are brave,ive learned my lesson in the past. Im waiting two weeks and reading macrumors. lol

It just works. No need to wait.

I just updated my Hackintosh desktops.

This is the quickest I've been able to update these machines, and the one issue I did have with the last version has now disappeared.

Usually I wait. I still haven't updated my iPhone. And honestly I have no idea why I updated last night because it screwed up my night really. All set now. Need to update my iPhone today so I can link them like Mark did.

A few things I use are not yet Yosemite ready, so I will be waiting on updating. Plus I need to get a new USB stick as I want to do a fresh install not an upgrade.

The hand off thing is very cool. I like the new design, aside from the folder colour. Man, that is a BRIGHT ASS blue.

New safari is very fucking fast.

Most useful feature for me I think is the mark up thing in mail. Fucking lovely.

Yup - Safari is now very fast for me too.

What is the mark-up thing in email you mentioned?

My game plan usually as well. Been following the threads and so far doesnt seem to be too bad this time around.