Is it safe to upgrade yet?

Is it safe now to upgrade a MacBook Pro from 10.8.5 to Yosemite? Or should I wait longer?

Assuming that you are already in the habit of routinely backing up your system you can install Yosemite at no risk and at no cost. If you do not routinely back up your system, you should. Obtain an external USB or FireWire hard disk drive for your Mac, then download and install Yosemite on it. You can choose to start your Mac from that disk or the internal one using Startup Manager (hold an option key while you start your Mac), and evaluate Yosemite at no risk whatsoever to your existing installation. Just be sure to designate the proper installation location for Yosemite when you get to that installation step.
Running OS X from an external USB hard disk won't be as fast as the Mac's internal one, but it will be sufficient to draw conclusions regarding its suitability for your needs. All else being equal Yosemite should perform somewhat better than Mountain Lion due to various efficiency improvements.
An external hard disk drive of adequate capacity can be purchased for well under $100 - much less than the cost of some previous OS X upgrades themselves. When you satisfy yourself that Yosemite works for you, then "clone" the external disk's contents to your internal one, and use the external disk for backup purposes - which you ought to be doing anyway.
To learn how to use Time Machine to back up your Mac read Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac.

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Having been sitting on the sidelines watching this debacle and wondering if it will ever be safe to upgrade. Never upgraded to Mavericks because of all of the problems that people were having. So I really thought I'd be able to upgrade by now to Yosemite, but still don't want to lose everything.
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I've had absolutely no issues with Yosemite on two Macs. a 2007 iMac and a 2011 Mac Mini. And none of my friends with Macs have had any issues either.
If you are expecting an Os without a single issue, or negative review or comment about it, you will be waiting a very long time.
Every Os release from any company is always received by scores of negative reviews and comments. When you release an update to millions of devices in differing unknown states of functionality it is not unlikely some may experience issues. But its generally a very small percentage of the update pool.
But generalizing this to "the update is intrinsically flawed" is just silly. Nothing in this world is perfect, less so computer software. But as long as you keep a recent backup, then likely hood of loosing anything is slim if any at all.

Safe to upgrade to Yosemite yet?

I have a late 2913 macbook pro retina. I am hearing lots of crazy screen issues popping up with the new OS. I waited for awhile so that these things could be ironed out. So now I am coming out of my hiding spot and asking..
Is it safe to download yet?
Thanks in advance.

XplodeCreations wrote:
I have a late 2913 macbook pro retina. I am hearing lots of crazy screen issues popping up with the new OS. I waited for awhile so that these things could be ironed out. So now I am coming out of my hiding spot and asking..
Is it safe to download yet?
Thanks in advance.
No one can guarantee anything. I have been using (as have countless others) OS X 10.10 since its initial release with absolutely no problems. Ignore the rumors....they are not, in any way, indicative of anything. 10.10.1 and 10.10.2 have been equally trouble free for me.
Barry
P.S. IMHO, partitioning an internal drive (unless one is Beta testing) is not a particularly good idea.

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Please help! I don't want to have to get a new hard drive. My warentee has now expired. Is it safe to upgrade? The service person I talked to said that it had happened to quite a few MacBook Airs.

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how would u know that ur phone is hacked or jailbroken to be unlocked?
If you bought the phone originally as SIM-free/unlocked direct from Apple, or had a network operator officially unlock the phone via iTunes, then it has not been hacked.
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No, no, no. I sure wish I read this post a few days ago. Here's what happened to me:
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Any time you want. I've upgraded to 6.1 the day it came out and have no battery issue.

Windows 10 upgrade yet on the K3011W

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rseiler wrote:
Wow, that's even older than the oldest one I have (I wonder which version Chuck is using?). I'll see if I can dig it up just in case, even though I'm all but sure that it's not the driver given the plague of users having wifi problems upon upgrading to Win10 (even accounting for those where it's caused by VPN software). Don't be surprised to see the latest version appear in Windows Update and be installed automatically. That's very weird about the Win10 tray icon suddenly changing. By the time I ran the manual install tool, the Win10 tray icon had been gone for a day or so (I'm not sure why, but I have read others say the same thing), so it wasn't around to object. I don't know if you've looked in Device Manager lately, but after upgrading to Win10 I noticed some problems in the System Devices section, specifically the thermal framework items. To get them back to normal, I had to revert to the previous driver for several of them in that section. I noticed this in Win81 too about a month ago when I stupidly approved a Windows Update for the thermal drivers. No doubt the same ones were pushed out to Win10. Just looked in Device Manager. No issues! ;-)

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