One of the things that surprise me today is the ability of users to cling to the above as if the new did not bring improvements or interesting news to what we already know. Before I start writing about the subject of this article, it is clear that this is a totally personal opinion and I am clear that it is not the absolute truth, much less, it is just my opinion and therefore I accept that each of you tell yours in the comments and thus create an interesting debate about it.
Well, let's get down to business. The first thing to say that I have been running OS X El Capitan since the beta versions and although it is true that in the beta versions there were some problems with third-party applications or tools, overall OS X El Capitan performance was good in previous versions. Once the official version was released, we saw that the integration of some applications gave an error in the system and this prevented it from working normally if you were updated to El Capitan and this is undoubtedly a real problem for the user. In general, the official update works well for most, but we will see this more in depth.
Of all this that happens in reviews and malfunction messages, who is to blame or rather who do we have to point to? Apple is undoubtedly the one indicated as many comments and reviews of the Mac App Store affirm with its more than 100 votes with one star, but if you stop to read that number of negative votes you will see that they are not directly complaining about failures of the operating system and its functions, the vast majority blame Apple for third-party app failures.
Obviously the operating system itself will have details to polish and problems such as that several users have stopped working the USB ports after the update or have worsened the quality of reception of the WiFi, some users who complain about Safari, etc., but the vast majority of the problems are due to incompatibilities or the lack of updates to third-party applications in regards to reviews in Apple's online store. This leads me to think that although it is true there are a lot of users with the latest version of OS X installed on their Mac (we will look for the data about it) many other users reading these comments, negative reviews and complaints are going to think about it first to do so and this is certainly in my view a step backwards. Ok, it is true that most users only comment when they have problems or something does not work correctly, but the worst of this is to say that the new Apple operating system does not work well and that the best thing in these cases is to return or stay in an earlier version.
It may be that Safari sometime fails, even you don't like the new font or if you hurry me that the native Photos app is not what you would expect for photo editing and more after using Aperture, but reading users say that Yosemite's version is better than El Capitan is something that I still don't understand, much less share. My iMac is from 2012 and it is not the most powerful configuration, OS X El Capitan works very well and although it is true that some apps that I use every day took time to adapt to the new operating system, many others did so before the final version of the system even arrived. In general, I have no complaints about the system after performing a zero restore of my machine as I usually do due to the canteen of apps and other tools that I install, test, delete, duplicate ...
OS X El Capitan is a continuity system
Yes, this is the great headline for this new Apple operating system that try to improve what already worked well in OS X Yosemite. I can come to understand that some older Macs do not adapt perfectly to the operating system or are a little slower than the most current Macs, I even agree that OS X El Capitan has aspects that require improvement in the next updates, but from there To say that a previous operating system is better for the mere fact that a third-party app or similar does not work for you, because I do not share it. OS X El Capitan is really a vitaminized and improved Yosemite so the basis of the system is exactly the same and it cannot be that it goes so badly to those who used Yosemite on their machine.
I repeat again that this is my personal opinion about the many complaints and problems that are read in the online store, in some of the articles that we have previously written in Soy de Mac and in other press media or blogs. Just as you can read positive opinions about any version of OS I do not share the opinion of some users who, being able to update to the latest version of OS X, do not do so for really minor reasons; Another very different thing is not being able to update due to machine limitations or similar, in those cases there is nothing more to talk about, but for the rest I sincerely believe that it is best to use the latest version available in all cases.
My 2011 MacBook has become faster, the additions to Notes, Mail, Records are very indispensable for me, in fact it is much more fluid and robust than Yosemite.
I have an iMac from the end of 2009 with 4 GB of Ram (I uploaded 2 Gb). With Yosemite I updated El Capitan and I was not satisfied because it felt "heavy". Finally, I decided to install from scratch and the truth is that I couldn't be happier. The computer is luxurious and more fluid than with Yosemite. Safari is very fluid for me and everything in general works very well for me, I could not be happier. The only third-party application that has not been updated in my case is the scanner software, but in this case I use the native screen capture application and it works quite well. Also say that I don't use Mail and instead I use Airmail 2 which is also very fluid for me.
I recommend installing from scratch, it is a bit more tedious but the final result is well worth it once you have everything configured.
My 2007 imac with ssd and 6gb of ram works very well with Capi, better than with Yosemite. Just some problem with third party apps. I just changed the system font to the old Lucida Grande because I like it better, and the new San Francisco looked a bit blurry.
Some applications do not work but it is a problem that they have not been updated to the Captain. I have noticed that eliminating Ram memory recovery program works faster for me El Capitan.
I have communicated some bugs to Apple and what I don't like about them is that they do not answer. It gives the feeling that it is going to the ether.
I don't know, but removing RAID from disk utility seems like a backlog and the truth is that I'm not very happy with all the things added and removing very important utilities such as RAID, I have two SSDs in RAID 0 and if it goes Luxury to have 2 tera of SSD I already tell you I have a 27-inch iMac with two SSDs in RAID 0 and this flies but before with hard drives it was super slow now I have readings of 600 more mega of writing and 900 of reading
The truth is that I agree and agree with you, I also do not understand those users who do not want to update for those reasons, in my personal opinion, I have a MacBook Pro 13 ″ Late 2011 with 16 GB of RAM (I expanded it from the original 4 GB ), and I cannot be happier, for me El Capitan is the best OS X that has been released so far, my Mac is more fluid with it than with Yosemite or Mavericks, and that was just an update and not installation from 0 By the way speaking of, if someone could get me out of a doubt, I want to format my Mac and import data from Time Machine, eye not simple restoration, clean installation and import the user accounts and all that, all the data is recovered or I have to reconfigure some things like safari tabs?
I'm generally enthusiastic and update without thinking. Until now, from Leopard, to Yosemite, always very satisfied, but with El Capitan I don't see that it is a well finished OS. We are on 10.11.1 and Mail still does not show me the messages of VIP contacts, very slow when launching the applications, and cleanmymac3 did not work but had to reinstall it (the latter just for anecdote, it was not 'the big problem' either)
cleanmymac is over on a mac.
I started off fatal. Because I laminated the Time Machine backup. He started with difficult readings of it and ended up ironing it. It will be me; But such a thing had never happened to me before.
I have a MacBook Air 13 ″ late 2015 with an i5 and 4 ram. With the captain the truth works very well! I could say that everything goes as smoothly as Yosemite but vitaminized with things that I really liked.
Now, I have a little problem .. When I go to disk utilities and I see the storage status of the disk, it tells me that I have 30 GB occupied, that there are 220 GB left over. That's right! But in the colored rectangle where I specify the type of data and the amount stored it tells me that I have 86gb occupied by applications
Does anyone know why that happens? Does it all happen to everyone? Greetings!!
PS: the page is very good, I always read it
Well the truth is that I am quite happy with OS X El Capitan.
One of my problems was the WIFI, when I gave my 13 ″ retina display to my macbook pro, the connection was closed. This is already solved 😀
I have had a little problem when I work, I dedicate myself to web development with a code editor (IDE) called PHPStorm and sometimes the system hangs with it, with which I have to restart (in 3 weeks maybe it has happened to me 2 times, and I suspect it's phpstorm thing).
As for the captain, it works fine, more fluid, faster, and with my SSD it literally FLIES, although if something stands out is the retina screen from where I write you, it is 'ocular porn' I have never had a laptop with such definition and since I spend my 10 hours a day writing code, it is appreciated.
how long does it take to turn on your mac?
It is if a Mac user updates his operating system and then the computer does not start, the discomfort that this implies must be understood.
I personally have had to reload the OS from scratch ... and that is not logical when Apple does not tell you.
I can use my washing machine without knowing mechanics and my TV without knowing electronics. What many users want is to use their computer without necessarily having to know computers.
I agree with what you say, normally the Mac user does not reach or touch his computer, the average only gives him the next button without seeing when he installs programs. In my work I use an iMac late 2006 with Tiger 10.4.11 (for reasons of compatibility with old software) and an iMac 2013 with 10.9.5 (and in my house a mac mini late 2012 with the same system) and none have been updated , I could update my house, but I had a bad experience with mavericks at the beginning and with the latest version more or less stable I do not want to go through the same with another OS. Also the design seems very flat and without a joke in Yosemite-El Capitan, although I could get used to it.
my Macbook Air Late 2010 is doing very well, even though I am thinking of installing the OS from scratch
Good Oscar, if it goes well I wouldn't touch it! Installing from scratch is usually always good but if in your case you have installed above and it does not fail you, it is silly to do it now.
regards
AirDrop still doesn't work for me, I can send files to my iPhone, but if I send files from the iPhone to the Mac, the phone doesn't detect it.
I have an MBPR 13 ″ early 2015, with Yosemite it worked very well, with the latest El Capitan update, at least AirDrop is what fails me and sometimes the connectivity with a beatspill 2.0 that goes away and the sound returns (eye, not notifications) and when the sound goes, the Mac locks (less than a second).
Any suggestion? Greetings.
I have problems due to the operating system not to third-party applications, speaking on several occasions with technical support they acknowledge that scanners older than four years can be ignored by El Capitan and they do not have a current solution for that. I can print but not ladder from the same multifunction, as a current solution they recommend buying new scanning equipment. It worked perfectly with Mavericks and Yosemite, I have a Mac Pro from a few years ago.
I have seen very positive comments from El Capitan on the MBPs based on the comments in this article, but I would like to ask: those with unmodified iMacs have El Capitan performed well?
I've had problems since Mavericks with performance. I have an iMac 2.1 Late 2012 Core i5 2.96GHz with 8gb and 1Tb HDD, with Mountain Lion from the factory, and with that ML it has worked wonderfully, it has not given me any problem, I have installed the Adobe CS6 suite and some CC of 2014, Office 2011, iWork and iLife, Final Cut Pro. I mean, with Mountain Lion I've never had a problem. When Mavericks came out, any CS6 app started crashing or slowing down in an exasperating way. I upgrade to Yosemite, and it works fine at first, but a couple of days later I start to notice a very noticeable performance drop. I did a clean install of Yosemite installing only CS6 and Office 2011, and it still slows me down. Again I clean install and install Office 2011, Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign CC, and it was worse. I upgraded to El Capitan, and until Office 2011 it slows down more than usual. I took my equipment to the store on several occasions but it has not shown any problem in the Hardware.
The question I ask myself is: could the line of iMacs of that generation have problems with the new releases from Mavericks? I really can't understand it.
Too disappointed, the worst operating system, my computer is Mac Air from 2014 and the Wifi is failing me, it does not connect me, I have to be near the router to grab me and if I leave, a problem that needs to be solved is disconnected and I have not had any update that fixes my problem.
Hi all:
I have a mac mini since the beginning of 2012 and it has worked perfectly for me in all the updates, but since I have updated the captain, it does not flicker on the screen and sometimes striped squares in some areas. It seemed to me that it happens when I play a video for example from YouTube or a news item from a newspaper.
The fact is that it happens to me since I updated the captain and I no longer know if it is a coincidence or something happens with the update. Before updating it worked so normal for me.
Someone might take me a cable?
Thanks
Well, I see more delicate complaints than benefits to highlight. As I keep my OS 10.8.5 that works decently and has everything working connected.
I have a macmini at home with OS 10.8.5 and it's great, many programs open at the same time, many 200 tabs in firefox and many others in chrome, and at the same time I fiddle with photoshop and I always have background music, either from youtube or itunes. my neck hangs, the colored ball rarely comes out.
On the other hand, in the job I bought (November) the latest imac 27 ″ retina 5k 2015 (32 Gb RAM), of course it brings a captain, and it is a fiasco, every two by three the ball comes out and it is only used for photoshop and illustrator. When it connects with airport extreme (3Tb), the colored ball comes out, and you open the browser, the ball comes out, you open the word and the colored ball comes out. And quite a few times when you are working with a large photoshop file it will black screen and restart. I have taken it to technical service and they say it is perfect.
I notice a change in Apple's philosophy for some time now, with its obsession to update and update, both the iPhone and the Mac applications run with difficulties, (WhatsApp hangs me every two by three or does strange things) It is due to the fact of opening new markets like Apple Music and bullshit like that. If this is the apple philosophy they have it clear.
Who has not deleted all the music when connecting the iPhone to another iTunes, and giving the little tab to manage music manually has all gone to hell without warning. Synchronizing… ..too late even if you just pull it out.
I have bought some songs in itunes store and they are the only ones that are not copied when I make a backup copy on another computer, it is amazing, better to catch mp3s out there than to buy them ...
(iTunes is designing it worse and worse and the more things are done in the songs, the less intuitive)
I have been using Mac and PC products since 1996 in different areas. If Mac wants to match PCs, it is succeeding. WHY DON'T THEY TEST THE PRODUCTS WELL BEFORE TAKING THEM OUT CARAJ *? or do they only do it on iphone 6 plus and MAC PRO?
I have a 2013 MacBook Pro, after going to El Capitan, the mac became very slow, the applications were closed and the business emails did not work for me. As it says it does not recognize the username or password, I reinstalled the emails and it does not give me. A complete disaster since I have El Capitan.
I have the Macbook Air I bought it in 2013, it takes a year and a half, I shouldn't have any problems, but the Captain is failing me !!!! The applications crash by themselves, the safari works for me sad, but more than sad, it does not allow me to load most of the pages, it does not allow me to load Facebook, I can not see a message, nor see the Facebook home page , I can't load pages to apply for scholarships because it gets stuck and I can't even try to notify technical support because it seems that it becomes silly and does not react to anything… .it is new, it is a year and a half !!!! I can't understand how that can happen ??, I've been trying to fix this all day, and I can't, it's really infuriating!
Hello!!! I have a Macbook Pro from the beginning of 2011 with 4 GB (I also uploaded 2) and when I pass it to El Capitan it is clearly slower (the wheel comes out every two by three !!). I didn't do the installation from scratch, but I don't know if it would really be very different if I did it now ... I'm quite careful and I'm a little lazy now ... Do you think I should ??? Would it really be a solution ??? I do not understand why it is so slow !!!!!!
Also the Canon MP630 multifunctional does not work, and that is a chore. Canon has informed me that they will not update drivers for El Capitan. Would anyone have a solution for that ???? For me it is a real problem ...
Thank you very much!!
Regarding your Canon multifunctional, I do not think that much can be done if Canon does not support it, regarding El Capitan, although formatting helps, you can do a simple Time Machine restoration, I did it with my Mac and it sped up some things, you can try to do that
I have a Macbook Pro from 2008 and I just updated El Capitan from scratch. I'm not really happy, it's giving me some problems that I can't solve. The cursor sometimes disappears, the applications open fast but from time to time it costs him open them and even the color wheel appears and he is left thinking with 2 open windows. The lower dock appears when he wants it does not matter if the cursor is down and I move it from one side to the other. It's a shame because I come from Lion wanting to update and catch up after reading very good reviews of El capitan but I am afraid that I will return to Lion since El capitan is not that he does not have positive things, he just fails with basic and simple things.
It is not that the worst thing is to go back to a previous version but that for many it will be appropriate regarding their interests when using a mac computer. In my case, what happened to me is that when I used mac os x mavericks, the images and texts on the screen had a sharp resolution and since I updated to mac os x el capitan, both the texts and images are as pixelated as in the operating system windows. I usually read entire textbooks from my computer and since I upgraded to the captain it has been very tiring for my eyes. The saddest and cruel thing is that this new operating system does not allow me to go back to a previous version of mac os x. It seems to me that it is a market strategy for us to continually buy new mac products like new computers with retina displays or something like that, without even requiring to perform more complex tasks like rendering in which more ram memory is used.
If the basic functions of the mac are used, it happens with the captain, but if you want to exploit the full potential of the mac, the captain falls short.
I do not know what the Mac think with this type of strategy. A very strong factor why users choose mac is for certain stability. Less problems for certain things than with a pc. (This is said by a user who browses both platforms and has seen the problems with one and the other)
It is sad to this day that he will work even better with leopard than with captain. Trip per trip the captain removes and removes incompatibilities or errors when working with other programs, even with the same adobe. Which in the long run takes away that enthusiasm in working with the mac.
And what will be said will be said but for the moment El Capitan is a fiasco, he forces people to back down or consider other options. «How to say: I apple was good, but no more, I no longer want you to notice me.
Sad consolation: go back to previous operating systems. And that is if one was careful to keep a backup, otherwise the way of the cross to get another one again.
A hug of solidarity for those souls in pain who have disappointed, like a servant.
The day I only have to use mail and a browser, I will probably be able to speak well, meanwhile ... puff!
Here's the thing, I have a 13 ”Macbook pro from mid 2012, with a 5ghz intel core i2,5, 4gb of ram memory and a 4000mb Intel HD 1536 integrated video graphics plus a 500Gb HDD.
The story recently Used Os X Yosemite. Days ago I entered to switch to OS X El capitan. In OS X Yosemite everything went smoothly, I generally work with many pages open in the browser, and when I was not working with graphics and video (literally open photoshop, illustrator, indesign, premiere combining the one I needed the most), I was working on audio , Logic Pro X, audition, etc with more than 15 tracks at the same time, plug-in and recording.
The point here is: How do you explain that with OS X Yosemite I did all of the above and there were still resources, and now that I install OS X El capitan, and just opening Logic pro X with 1 vst plugins playing and 5 miserable google Chrome tabs and it has already eaten more than 70% of the resources, what is worth noting, everything is going super slow?
Since I did the installation Clean I repeat Clean from scratch, my mac literally swallows resources, even looking at it 2 times, not counting that it fires the Fan every 2 by 3. Something bad is happening in Apple so that its own system runs so bad and all the resources of the machine are consumed for a few simple tasks, something that did not happen in the previous System
In conclusion.
If it's good, it's new, lots of multi-windows at the same time, new metal graphics engine and blah, blah, blah. But sorry apple I RETURN TO OS X YOSEMITE.
If at any time you get to take out a system that makes that instead of destroying resources in that way, it manages them better than your previous system, pleased to use it, not before.
Hello everyone; to see if you can help me. I switched from Yosemite to the captain and the home screen is blurry
Hello 69yc2, can you explain the problem a little more?
regards
good morning
I would like to know if it has happened to any of you that since you have installed OS X El Capitan the iMac turns off and no longer turns on. I have to unplug the cable for several hours sometimes even days and it just turns on.
I will be grateful if anyone has a solution.
regards
Hello! I have a macbook air 13 ″ from 2014, I installed Captain 2 10.11.5 weeks ago and since that day I have not been able to shut down or restart the computer without having to force it. I am quite distressed because I work with the Mac every day and cannot take it to a technical service. Is it the operating system? Is it possible to reinstall it without deleting the programs or applications? Can I go back to Maverick? Please can you help me?.
Hello "wages" you can calm down because absolutely everything you say can be done without problems on a Mac, however it depends on whether you have a Time Machine backup, if not, it is more complicated, however, if there is a problem In the operating system what I recommend is to first try to solve it with the "Single User" mode, to enter that mode what you have to do is press ⌘ + S at the moment of turning on the Mac (just at the moment of the sound power on, you will enter an interface similar to Terminal, once it finishes loading just type "fsck -fy" and press Enter, the system will verify that everything is fine and repair whatever is necessary, once it finishes just type "Exit" and press Enter, and voila, you can see if the Mac works normally again
Good huntsmen,
my advice is to make a backup and perform a clean install of the system. Then I am sure that everything will work out perfectly. Once this is done, load the backup stored in Time Machine or wherever you want and if it fails you later it is due to a program that you are using.
Greetings and tell us
I can't use Final Cut Pro X on the 27 iMac 7 ′ i2012. I have done a clean install of Captain but any FCPX files I need to render shut down and I have to wait ten to fifteen minutes. Every time it goes out before. Now I am testing if the same thing happens with iMovie, after uninstalling FCPX to see if it is this program in question or a hardware problem or what do I know. I am desperate because I make TV videos every day. And multi-cameras, not even thinking about it.
It does strange things to me, clicking on files creates folders with the elements inside or folders of photos have disappeared