[customcoco]

Hello there ! 

I've been thinking about upgrading (from snow leopard) lately.... I'm still on the fence.

Has anyone here jumped from SL to mavericks ? If so, what are your thoughts ?

 

[Ivabign]

Are you doing it on a desktop or a laptop? I have both and are pleased with the performance - the length of charge on the laptop has increased by a noticeable amount on my Air....

 

[paradoxper]

  Hello there ! 
 
I've been thinking about upgrading (from snow leopard) lately.... I'm still on the fence.
 
Has anyone here jumped from SL to mavericks ? If so, what are your thoughts ?

I upgraded one of my older Macbook Pro's. First time was upgrading through SL to Mavericks,
no problems arised nor did I experience any tiny quirks.
I then just did a clean install (which I prefer) and aside
from some driver issues with displaylink I haven't had any further problems.

 

[DLeeWebb]

I migrated two laptops and a desktop from Snow Leopard to Maverick with no issues whatsoever....

 

[earthpeople]

Snow Leopard to Mavericks is definitely a good jump, especially with all the benefits from 10.7, 8, and of course 9.
With it being free, I don't see any compelling reason to stay at SL unless you lose compatibility with certain programs.

 

[customcoco]

Thanks everyone...
 
Now about that clean installation thing.
 
Is that really mandatory ?
 
Well, of course I know that it's not, but it's something I did on a regular basis with windows and I wonder if there are any "real world" reasons to do it on a mac.
 
EDIT : worst 1000th post ever...
 
EDIT 2: Now that I think about it, i've been on that mac for quite a while now so a little spring cleaning might be a good thing..

 

[paradoxper]

 
EDIT 2: Now that I think about it, i've been on that mac for quite a while now so a little spring cleaning might be a good thing..

Before you do upgrade you may want to do some searching about Mavericks bugs. There are a lot of unhappy users out there.

 

[customcoco]

So I've finally done it. Cleaned up most of the junk, then started the installer. Everything went fine (took half an hour to install) but then it restarted... It's been 2 and a half hours... I'm stuck with a white screen an apple and a rotating wheel...
 
What should I do ? I've got a Time Machine backup so I'm covered... Should I shut it down ?
 
EDIT: Seems to be working now... Fingers crossed.