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I'm totally screwed by El Capitan
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They have a new driver and instructions for the 1000 series units (NC, ND, & NM) posted now - WOOHOO!
Hard to believe some of the snotty, unsympathetic responses to the OP here, especially when we all know that Apple's networking has been absolutely #*$%ed in the last few versions of OS X, and Apple appears to have no interest or ability to fix it. I'm watching the Mac users where I work struggle with Yosemite and El Capitan's pathetic SMB implementation which is so awful, slow and productivity-killing that it's actually prompting serious discussion at my workplace about dumping the Macs and switching to PCs. I think we can maybe cut the OP some slack. He's victim to one of Apple's blindspots.
Having said all that, I'd encourage the OP NOT to be an early adopter on any major OS updates, especially if possible problems will present such a panic-inducing disruptions to things. I typically wait until the x.2 or x.3 version before I tip my toes in the new OS X waters and even then, I check on compatibility issues for the most important software and hardware I have. Apple can only do so much to ensure compatibility with existing technology and the whole idea with a major version update is that it can (and often does) break things by making significant changes to underlying technologies.
Having said all that, I'd encourage the OP NOT to be an early adopter on any major OS updates, especially if possible problems will present such a panic-inducing disruptions to things. I typically wait until the x.2 or x.3 version before I tip my toes in the new OS X waters and even then, I check on compatibility issues for the most important software and hardware I have. Apple can only do so much to ensure compatibility with existing technology and the whole idea with a major version update is that it can (and often does) break things by making significant changes to underlying technologies.
Hmm, I don't think it's hard to believe.
If anything set the tone for the type of replies that would come later, it was the snotty, condescending wording used by the OP in his second (and many of his subsequent) replies.
This forum is full of threads that have helpful and sympathetic replies. But generally not when the OP posts stuff like this one did.
IMO, it's kind of amazing that someone took the time in post #8 to do all of the legwork to research the two issues the OP had.
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Just seemed like someone who was frustrated to me.
You know, Apple loves to push the "it just works" mantra but more and more often, I'm finding they don't have any business making that claim. I've been using Macs since the early 90s and I've never been closer than I am right now to dumping Apple and moving on. There are major issues that have been present in OS X since Mavericks that Apple has not yet fixed. It's getting easy to believe that they've just lost all interest in the Mac. I don't see this kind of insanity happening on iOS.
Furthermore, I don't see it happening in Windows. I just upgraded a 7-year-old laptop at work to Windows 10 and it runs beautifully. I was actually shocked at how good a job Microsoft did. Then I turn to my Mac which has perpetually been hobbled by Yosemite.
I think people have a right to be frustrated by Apple. They're screwing up bad lately.
It was true(ish) several years ago, sadly not any more.
El Capitan is a horrible incompatible mess of beta-quality "fixes and improvements" to things that were working just fine. Major (and rather diverse) issues from the moment I've upgraded. It's probably the buggiest OS X release to date.
Downgraded to Yosemite and couldn't be happier. It's not the perfect OS, but compared to EL Capitan it is super-stable and super-fast.
Also it looks like the crowd of "lulz, u n00b, my Facebook works OK in El Capitan!" OS experts got substantially bigger with this update for some reason. I blame marketing.
P.S. Just discovered that my Magic Trackpad 2 which is with delivery courier at the moment probably will not function properly in Yosemite – because Apple wants me to "upgrade" to 10.11 bugfest.
"It just works" my arse.
"It just works" went out the doors with Scott Forstall and Bertrand Serlet, and straight into the grave with Steve Jobs...
Tim Cook's new mantra is "It's Just Profits"...
I hear you, I upgraded from 10.10.5, had issues, have done several clean installs of 10.11.0 still have issues, with Apple`s own applications. Apple are simply pandering to the masses, I want stability & security first, 60 fps "buttery" smooth UI transitions is of no use to me if something a basic as Mail or Preview does not work properly. Going to give it to 10.11.1 then will be rolling my Mac`s back to a working a OS (10.10.5) IHMO 10.11 was released far too early in the development cycle.
FWIW this will be the first time I have ever considered rolling back OS X and that`s a long time...
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