Yosemite

[Tony Crooks]

I’ve just got around to installing Yosemite on our late 2008 MacBook Pro - lack of internet bandwidth prevented me from dong so before now - and must confess that on first appearances I much prefer it to OS X 10.9. Clean, clinical design. Speed seems decent for this ageing device.

Instal seemed to work OK. Had a slight issue with getting the wifi to stick but that seems to have resolved itself. Need to sort out TRIM for the Crucial SSD at some stage. Mail app seems to be working normally. Safari seems to have taken a step up. Messages seems to be working OK. Not tried FaceTime.

About to find out how problematic iCloud Drive is.

Regards,

Tony

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[MacService]

Tony,

Before you do enable TRIM, read this article from the Crucial KB:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/TRIM-and-SSD-performance-why-is-it-important/ta-p/100276

Fundamentally, you don't need TRIM enabled.

Chris.

[Tony Crooks]

Thanks for the link. So on a MacBook I'd need for it to not sleep for an unspecified period for the garbage collection to do its work. Not sure if this viable in terms of battery life although I can see it working when overnight charging. Any thoughts?

Regards,

Tony
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[Jason Davies]

I did this with the 'hold down alt' startup as they suggest somewhere else overnight. The machine was immensely faster as a result.

If you can't leave it plugged in that's the safest way to leave it, I guess. Though not ideal...

Thanks,

-Jason
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[Tony Crooks]

Must give this a go, although the SSD in the MacBook is a Crucial C300 so not sure if it is too old!

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Tony
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[MacService]

Tony,

More info here:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Mac-OS-X-Trim-and-C300/td-p/42790

Although, a little ambiguous.

[mac98aop]

Thanks Tony, really helpful to hear and pleased all went well.

I'm still being shy about it, as on early 2011 MBPro, but your post encourages me to take the leap. I admit I'm not that sure about the UI changes - but on that, is there any lag? Does it all perform and respond smoothly? Mine on 10.9 is so quick (SSD) and works like a charm. I'd hate an update to suddenly make the MB suddenly feel rather ancient!

AP

[MacService]

This test software will give you a graphical view of how your SSD is performing with and without TRIM enabled - my OWC performs MUCH quicker without it:

https://static.aja.com/assets/products/files/90/AJASystemTestMac.zip

FYO, TRIM Enabler can be downloaded here:

http://www.cindori.org/software/trimenabler/

[Jason Davies]

This is only a couple of minutes at a time or one overnight occasionally btw

Thanks,

-Jason
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On 25 Nov 2014 at 14:30:09 GMT, Tony Crooks <tcr...@me.com> wrote: