upgrade to yosemite?

[slowcoach]

Hi i have a mbp from july 2012
It has 2.5ghz i5 processor with 4gb 1600 mhz ddr3 memory

Currently running on 10.9.5 software and is fine although i find it a little slow sometimes

Does anyone advise an upgrade to yosemite?

Im concerned that if i do it it will be irreversible and my mbp does not have sufficient processing power to handle it

Am not ready to replace with a current model. Any advice welcome

Thanks

 

[B772ER]

Hi i have a mbp from july 2012
It has 2.5ghz i5 processor with 4gb 1600 mhz ddr3 memory

Currently running on 10.9.5 software and is fine although i find it a little slow sometimes

Does anyone advise an upgrade to yosemite?

Im concerned that if i do it it will be irreversible and my mbp does not have sufficient processing power to handle it

Am not ready to replace with a current model. Any advice welcome

Thanks

i would suggest doing a full time machine backup before upgrading, if after upgrade, you find the performance slow, you can still restore back using Internet Recovery

 

[slowcoach]

i ran the upgrade and now it feels like a brand new machine. My fears totally unfounded

No immediate issues to report and right now a happy customer of apple products

 

[asriznet]

i ran the upgrade and now it feels like a brand new machine. My fears totally unfounded

No immediate issues to report and right now a happy customer of apple products

Common issues would be compatibility with 3rd party softwares - this however is not much on Apple's fault, more on the software developer not updating their app to work with the new OS.

Other known issues with Yosemite is wifi connection drop, I personally am not facing this but there's a group of users who are and it's very isolated case at this point.

I assume you have the non-retina MBP without SSD? If you want to have better performance, you can consider upgrading to an SSD. You'll be much amazed by the performance upgrade.

 

[jeffrey745]

Hi ts,im planning to get the 2012 non retina mbp too,it has gd upgrade capabilities! Y nt upgrade ur ram to 8gb n change hdd to sdd? Sure the speed will b like retina mbp?;-)

 

[szeli]

slow? upgrade to ssd then yosemite. ssd very affordable now. price has come down a lot!

 

[slowcoach]

Common issues would be compatibility with 3rd party softwares - this however is not much on Apple's fault, more on the software developer not updating their app to work with the new OS.

Other known issues with Yosemite is wifi connection drop, I personally am not facing this but there's a group of users who are and it's very isolated case at this point.

I assume you have the non-retina MBP without SSD? If you want to have better performance, you can consider upgrading to an SSD. You'll be much amazed by the performance upgrade.

Yes mine is non retina and without ssd. How do you upgrade to ssd. Is it really worth it? I probably don't push my Mac in terms of performance. Only use for Internet and occasional download or stream. Seldom do any real processing

 

[asriznet]

Yes mine is non retina and without ssd. How do you upgrade to ssd. Is it really worth it? I probably don't push my Mac in terms of performance. Only use for Internet and occasional download or stream. Seldom do any real processing

Upgrading is easy and you can buy SSD at cheap price nowadays, you may probably consider dual-drive installation and remove the superdrive if you store lots of data on your computer - this is if you don't foresee using the superdrive anymore.

After installing SSD and fusion it with my HDD I'm getting very fast boot time(5-10 seconds) and performance, you won't go back to HDD after testing SSD yourself, trust me.

Installation instructions available in ifixit.com

 

[IceMantis]

Common issues would be compatibility with 3rd party softwares - this however is not much on Apple's fault, more on the software developer not updating their app to work with the new OS.

Other known issues with Yosemite is wifi connection drop, I personally am not facing this but there's a group of users who are and it's very isolated case at this point.

I assume you have the non-retina MBP without SSD? If you want to have better performance, you can consider upgrading to an SSD. You'll be much amazed by the performance upgrade.

hmmm....by this do u mean to install it on the SSD? if yes, then can i assume that i need a Mac compatible SSD rite?

 

[asriznet]

hmmm....by this do u mean to install it on the SSD? if yes, then can i assume that i need a Mac compatible SSD rite?

SSDs uses the same SATA connection like typical 2.5" internal HDDs therefore your Mac do support SSD.

It's just the TRIM feature which are not enabled for 3rd party SSDs on OS X Yosemite.

 

[yukita]

test using MBP 2010, change the hardisk to SSD and with 8gb ram.
speed wise its quite fast.