On 11/21/2014 Buck-i-Nana said: On 11/21/2014 Lynnj said: On 11/21/2014 Lynnj said: On 11/21/2014 Buck-i-Nana said: I have a 2010 macbook pro and I HATE Yosemite. I haven't had the screen distortion, but that spinning pinwheel is pretty much a constant. Never ever had a problem with my mac, and have bragged about the stability of their upgrades...until now. I am running 10.10.1 and it has not resolved the pinwheel and slow screen painting.
Have you done a restart since you updated? Some people leave their computer on and plugged in all of the time, so just asking because I don't know your habits. If you haven't restarted, try that, and see if it helps. Sometimes when you leave it on it ,over RAM into swap memory, and then that can start to cause that spinning wheel and slowness. I won't get into the specifics about RAM and swap memory here,must try the restart and see what happens.
Also, are you familiar with activity monitor? It's a built in app in your utilities application folder. Open this up, click on CPU tab and see what's using the most of your CPU. Look at the % column. Might be an app or process that using memory that needs to be forced quit. That can cause the spinning wheel stuff.
I've done a restart. After loading 10.10 and experiencing the problems, I went on line to hunt for others experiencing it and recommendations to correct. I went in and modified my dashboard settings and ran disk utilities to check and repair any problems. Still have the problems. I've monitored activities, I run very bare bones, not a multi-tasker. The issue appears to be related to how the new OS paints the images to the screen. My video checks out fine according to diagnostics.
Yosemite was designed to integrate the iOS products with the computers. I don't need to share with any iOS products and honestly wish I never upgraded. Sad, as I've NEVER said that about my mac since I bought it back in 2010.
I understand how you feel. You would think that you could trust and upgrade/update when you see it. Plus, past history with Apple was things worked the way they were supposed to work. Most of the forums I've read I see people using Macbook Pro with the most problems with Yosemity. Not sure if its because more people have the Pros, or the problems with the update are geared specifically to the Pro?
The past two years of updates for iOS and Mac have not gone well. Actually, to be honest I didn't have problems with Mavericks, it worked well for me, but many others did. I think they need to spend more time developing the updates for these things and not be so quick to rush to market to release them to the public annually. Two operating systems once per year, with major enhancements, is just too much. Many just getting used to the last update before the next is ready. I think they should look at going every other year, each year offering a different update. iOS one year, Mac the next, iOS the following. This would give them two full year to develop and test before releasing.
Its a shame because Apple has really picked up customer base in the last few years, many making the switch because of all of the problems with windows based devices - myself included. But with all the problems lately its starting to turn people off. The cost for devices are so much more expensive, and you expect a better result for that. And actually, the devices work great when purchased, its when you install these upgrade system things that messes everything up.
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