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Very impressed with 10.11.6 -- your thoughts?
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After installing the 10.11.6 combo update, several apps on the Dock were missing, but were easy just put back on there. Aside from that, I can't tell any difference (aside from knowing lots of security issues were updated/fixed, which is good).
Is that an Early or Late '08 MBP? I have an Early '08 and the track pad freezes a lot on El Cap up through .5; haven't tried .6 yet so interested if it now works on my machine.
Interestingly, Disk Utility works better now (sort of). Coming from .3 to this new .6 (I upgraded just to see if Disk Utility was better since I needed to do some formatting) now allows me to erase a Windows formatted External Disk and format it for OS X. It took 2 tries for each disk but each time the 2nd attempt completed the task.
It's still annoying but at least I didn't have to use a 3rd party utility to get it done.
It's still annoying but at least I didn't have to use a 3rd party utility to get it done.
Thanks for the note. It's getting hard to find anyone with an early '08. I know I am overdue for a new one but the '08 is still running very well especially after the SSD upgrade. On thing I will miss when the time comes is the matte screen; sure wish Apple would stop with the glossy screens.
10.11.6 seems to be as stable as any release of the OS that I've previously seen or used.
Even the beta releases ran fine.
Even the beta releases ran fine.
I haven't really seen/felt any difference. Perhaps it's too soon to tell for me.
I was getting a lot of beachballs lately on Safari and when I needed to use finder to open a file on 10.11.5. Since installing 10.11.6, those problems seem to have disappeared and overall, seems snappier. Running an early 2011 17-inch Macbook Pro with 2.3, 8GB, stock HD.
Quite stable for me. Though I haven't ran into any major issues with El Capitan thus far.
Thanks to everybody for your continued feedback! Always interesting to read your thoughts. To those with any hiccups following the install, I hope they get resolved soon. 
I have mavericks installed on an external hd and sometimes boot it up. When I was using Yosemite I really missed how quick Mavericks was. For me El Capitan is now on par with Mavericks performance. Hopefully Sierra won't be a step backwards on my MBP.
Over a week testing El Cap on a MBP mid 2009. I do not see any difference in launching apps or the UI speed wise, safari seems a little faster at first then eventually slows down a little if not refresh with a re-boot.
UI is not as blindingly bright as Yosemite, which is a good thing.
Some glitchy stuff though with spikes in CPU activity even at idle and spotlight turned off - CPU jumps from3 % at idle to over 50% in spikes every minute or so. If MBP is set to *more performance* in energy saver prefs, the MBP runs 10 degrees C hotter.
Other things I have noticed, shut down is twice as long, dock won't show in some re-starts / reboot.
More aggravating is disc utility looks useless - very un-intuitive, no perms repairs, no raid support., so I use the old Yosemite disc utility in El Cap trick. But since I run that machine with two SSD's in raid 0 (backed to cloud and external) - impossible to configure that in El Cap as no raid support affects SIP which cannot be disabled in a Raid 0 set up - Option reboot will not work.
So to enable the Yosemite disc Util. to work in El Cap, I had to install El Cap on an exterior drive and disable SIP , configure the customizations I wanted, then restored to the internal raid start up discs.
Not really bowled over by El Cap, I like Yosemite better..perhaps because it took me quite a while to get Yosemite to behave finally, and is less restrictive OS wise.
UI is not as blindingly bright as Yosemite, which is a good thing.
Some glitchy stuff though with spikes in CPU activity even at idle and spotlight turned off - CPU jumps from3 % at idle to over 50% in spikes every minute or so. If MBP is set to *more performance* in energy saver prefs, the MBP runs 10 degrees C hotter.
Other things I have noticed, shut down is twice as long, dock won't show in some re-starts / reboot.
More aggravating is disc utility looks useless - very un-intuitive, no perms repairs, no raid support., so I use the old Yosemite disc utility in El Cap trick. But since I run that machine with two SSD's in raid 0 (backed to cloud and external) - impossible to configure that in El Cap as no raid support affects SIP which cannot be disabled in a Raid 0 set up - Option reboot will not work.
So to enable the Yosemite disc Util. to work in El Cap, I had to install El Cap on an exterior drive and disable SIP , configure the customizations I wanted, then restored to the internal raid start up discs.
Not really bowled over by El Cap, I like Yosemite better..perhaps because it took me quite a while to get Yosemite to behave finally, and is less restrictive OS wise.
Because of SIP, 'Repair Permissions' is now obsolete, as you can no longer modify the files it used to repair.
I understand, unless SIP is disabled, which is what I prefer, as I don't feel the need for Apple to lock down my system files as a "security measure".
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I stayed at 10.11.3 until this one. Needed disk utility to work at all so I upgraded this time. So far so good. 10.11.6 seems good so far.
The best thing to do is try it for yourself.
Make a clone of your current system using Carbon Copy Cloner. Then update your internal drive and give it a test run. If it works for you, cool. If not, you can always revert back to the clone you made before the update and pick up where you left off.
NOTE that any files created after the update will need to be backed up before reverting to the clone.
Easy peazy. Backups are your friend
I've instigated a remote re-install seems to have restarted the upgrade and looks to be progressing further than before but it's very slow... It's a 13" c2d.
Not being an i5 or i7 model explains the speed. I'll have to consult Everymac to check the GPU.
Edit Update GPU:
NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
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Good news. Booted into Recovery and carried out re-install to a successful conclusion.
No issue along the way but it took many many hours over night hooked to the net. All things so far so good. Haven't checked out ports yet but just happy to have the machine back up and running. I do have Carbon Copy Clones of primary machines. So I wasn't worried but I didn't think the drive needed to be clone back over though that might have taken less time in the end or the same.
This is the first time I've ever had a upgrade fail or freeze on any Mac so reliable have all system been to date. I really wasn't too sure what to do and it turned out it's not that complicated. I'm truly impressed with the recovery path and stability of the recovery options so thanks Steve & Woz and all those at Apple since time began.
No issue along the way but it took many many hours over night hooked to the net. All things so far so good. Haven't checked out ports yet but just happy to have the machine back up and running. I do have Carbon Copy Clones of primary machines. So I wasn't worried but I didn't think the drive needed to be clone back over though that might have taken less time in the end or the same.
This is the first time I've ever had a upgrade fail or freeze on any Mac so reliable have all system been to date. I really wasn't too sure what to do and it turned out it's not that complicated. I'm truly impressed with the recovery path and stability of the recovery options so thanks Steve & Woz and all those at Apple since time began.
Not sure if you've got an SSD already but it would be worth considering if not -- makes the old C2Ds run like butter