OSX 10.10 performance impressions?

[tipoo]

Faster, slower, about the same? How is RAM use?

Kinda sceptical about installing it on the C2D/320M/4GB system in the family, as nothing after Snow Leopard has been as lag-free. Mavericks is still a bit of a dog on it.
Windows 7 runs like a dream on it, funny enough.

 

[n0x1ous]

I have a late 2009 MB with C2D/9400M/4GB and its using most of the RAM with just a couple Apps open, but performance is fine - certainly on par with Mavericks.....

FYI these macbooks do support 8GB even though Apple says officially 4 GB

 

[tipoo]

I have a late 2009 MB with C2D/9400M/4GB and its using most of the RAM with just a couple Apps open, but performance is fine - certainly on par with Mavericks.....

FYI these macbooks do support 8GB even though Apple says officially 4 GB

Thanks for the info. What do you mean by most of the RAM? On Mavericks it took about 2.5GB of the 4GB, the rest was inactive or free, I think. Do you find it using more than Mavericks? If you use a bit more, does it chunk with swapping?

 

[Rakehellion]

Faster, slower, about the same? How is RAM use?

Kinda sceptical about installing it on the C2D/320M/4GB system in the family, as nothing after Snow Leopard has been as lag-free. Mavericks is still a bit of a dog on it.
Windows 7 runs like a dream on it, funny enough.

After I installed, I had an extra 20GB free on my hard drive, so that's nice. Safari is a lot faster. Memory usage is about the same.

 

[Oyeve]

I have a mid 2009 MBP with 8GB of ram and a 1TB HD and mavericks pretty much made it useless. I may as well put Yosemite on it and see as it cant make it worse.

 

[Zaap]

Stellar performance so far on my 15" Mid 2012 Retina MBP. Feels as fast and fluid as Mavericks ever did, maybe even more so. I'm loving the new sleek look.

Let's see how it goes updating my Hacks.

 

[Childs]

Yeah, feels good.

 

[Printer Bandit]

please god, please stop going full screen when i click on the green maximize button.

 

[tipoo]

please god, please stop going full screen when i click on the green maximize button.

Holding option brings back the old behavior.

 

[Zaap]

^ Yup, or double-clicking the status bar. (Which I like)

I think they should have done the opposite: option+green button should do the stupid fullscreen, not default.