OS X Yosemite performance

[Stromkraft]

I don't mind diving in right away myself, with a Time Machine it's so simple to get back to where I was if I need to.

I take it you don't use the new iCloud Drive service and devices like iPads and iPhones? There's no real turning back if you do.
Note that this does not concern the iCloud service as a whole, it only concerns the iCloud drive specific services.


I'm sitting here with a new iPhone 5s with IOS 7.0.4 realizing that Apple refuses me to sync with my backup from my old iPhone 5 saying that iOS is too old on the phone, refuses me activate it before I "restore" the phone which means forceable updating it to iOS 8 as I can't update to the same iOS version as my backup which has IOS 7.1.2, because "Apple stopped signing" that a month ago.

I saved the previous SHSH files for my old phone while Apple was still signing, but unfortunately never for 7.0.4 that the new phone has. I can only revert the old iPhone 5 to 7.1.1 or 6.1.4 and that wouldn't help me in this case as I'd need 7.0.4 on the old phone. The only way is to jailbreak it and I don't want to do that.

If I upgrade it to iOS 8 I must upgrade my Mac to Yosemite if I want to be able to sync with ***CORRECTION**** iCloud drive. I can of course refrain from opting into iCloud drive if I don't need it, but I hate this that if you make an upgrade or opt-in there's no gracing period. You're locked in to the choice you made, knowingly or unknowingly. ***/CORRECTION**** .
These kind of antics is unfortunately what to expect from Apple, the new Microsoft. Apple products should always be about the complete user experience and that would mean encouraging users to upgrade, not force them. Apple have abdicated from that since a long time.

In my case, the only reason I'm on Mac still is that Windows is worse (though I run Windows in Parallels) and Linux/BSD/UNIX et al don't have Ableton Live. Which is a pity.

[Stromkraft]

One thing to look out for if you are installing Yosemite on an external disk it that the Yosemite installer may completely hide the older startup disk which your current system resides on and this will be true in Terminal, the Startup disk preference app (In the installer's apple menu) as well as in the optional startup disks shown when holding down the "alt"-key during startup.
In this latter case, If you boot up from your Mavericks (or older) recovery partition instead (which normally is among the options), the older drive will be visible in the Startup disk preference app available there.

Unfortunately, my machine refuses to boot from the installed Yosemite system external disk even as it boots from the installer partition it made on the same drive. So I couldn't tell if the older partition is also hidden when booted from Yosemite residing on an external disk.

[pencilrocket]

FWIW, iCloud is a pile of shit. Don't use it.

[Stromkraft]

FWIW, iCloud is a pile of shit. Don't use it.

I use it for reminders sync, otherwise I sync locally. For Ableton Live syncing and collaborations Splice looks far more interesting than than Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive or iCloud Drive (if that even can be used).