I have the need to update operating system, apps, and other stuff on OS X approximately every other week on my work machines since I write documentation for upcoming Apple development tools. To completely regenerate a system and move my account over to it generally takes about two and a half hours, not counting download time for the OS and development tools downloads. I get new systems at the office every year or two. Right now, my work systems include a 2012 MacBook Air 13", a 2013 MacBook Pro 13", and a 2015 MacBook Pro 15". I gave the iMac 27" (TB model) back to the department because I'd rather use a laptop and a 27" display, it suits my work better.
I update my personal system (the one I do my image processing with) on a regular basis, every week or so, with whatever new apps and OS bits have been released. This way, it's never a big deal, ten to twenty minutes at most unless I'm doing a whole OS installation and regenerating the entire system. Then it's similar to what it takes me at the office. My personal system is a late 2012 Mac mini with 2.7Ghz i7 quad-core processor, 16G ram, and 950G SSD internal … It's plenty of power and RAM for everything I do with it, and will be for some time to come I suspect. I'll update to a new one when something requires new hardware for some reason. As far as I'm concerned, the best way to keep a computer system from causing me agony is to spend a half hour in maintenance time every week or two. Then the system is always up to date, always working well, and whatever downtime might surface is due only to real problems. I know nothing about maintaining computers running Windows. They seem to require an lot of maintenance, based on what I see my partner doing with his, but I really don't know and I have no interest in finding out. Same for systems running Linux. OS X does everything I need and doesn't irritate me more than a little bit every infrequent now and then… ;-) G > On Mar 18, 2016, at 9:42 AM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > > This has been my experience as well, Paul, and interestingly enough, I have > the current versions of OX 10 on a 2011 desktop. The desk top runs a tad > slow because I haven’t upgraded the RAM yet, but I have no problem with > drivers for my Epson scanner and printer. I’m also running the current > version of Lightroom 6, which runs a tad slow on the desktop because I > haven’t upgraded my RAM yet, but it’s still definitely very workable. > Absolutely, no problems with speed on my laptop, which has all latest > versions of everything etc. But I don’t do any special configurations with > my tech, which could possibly add complications and require more time > installing. > > Cheers, Christine > > >> On Mar 15, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My Mac upgrades have always gone quite smoothly, and the latest was the most >> effortless. I’m running OS X 10.11.3 on the iMac Retina 5K. One would expect >> the latest hardware and latest OS to work well together and they do. With a >> 4GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 32 Gigs of RAM and the Radeon R9 M395 graphics >> card it rips right through any PhotoShop job that I’ve ever attempted. I >> have quite a few peripherals: two printers, a scanner, a Wacom tablet and a >> second monitor (another iMac 27 running in target mode), but there was >> nothing to set up, just plug and play. The OS updated all the drivers on >> installation. I expect I would have had more difficulty had I tried to run >> an older OS. >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
