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Early Yosemite adoption 67% faster than Mavericks, according to analytics

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The numbers are small as yet, but early indications are that Mac users are keen to get their hands on the new Yosemite features. Social sharing tool AddThis, which collects analytics data from 13 million websites, is reporting that Yosemite adoption is already running at 2%, versus 1.2% for Mavericks in the same timeframe … 

9to5Mac visitors are of course way ahead of the game, with OS X 10.10 Yosemite adoption already at 51%.

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Early this morning numbers show 9to5mac readers now over 50% on Yosemite

Yosemite is available as a free download for OS X 10.9 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks users. Apple switched to free operating system upgrades with Mavericks last October. The previous update, Mountain Lion, cost $19.99.

Yosemite introduces a significantly different look & feel, in keeping with the flat design of iOS 8, and offers a very worthwhile range of new features such as Handoff, Continuity and iCloud Drive, as well as enhancements to Spotlight.

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  1. 89p13 - 9 years ago

    As someone who got in on the public beta – I really like what they have done with this latest flavor of the OS!

    And, it’s FREE!

  2. PMZanetti - 9 years ago

    I think people will love it. It is a really great release. Can’t wait to see it on the 5k iMac.

    Anyone…what is the build number of this public release? It is 14A388a?

  3. Roger Hocking - 9 years ago

    Updated. Hmmm. Not sure I like the totally flat look. See how it goes, not that I can roll it back

    • standardpull - 9 years ago

      if you want you can roll it back with your backup or reinstall your old OS. Just like you can with Windows or Linux or any other OS. It isn’t hard, just a bit tedious. Just like any other OS.

      • Markus (@jokey2k) - 9 years ago

        No, it is different here. Just recover from a TimeMachine backup in 5 clicks and about an hour or two of leaving the machine copying all old data back.

  4. standardpull - 9 years ago

    I’ve upgraded my personal machines, but I’ll give it at least a month before I upgrade the 120 machines I’m responsible for in the field. You know, best practice for IT drones like me.

    In the Windows space we are still running Win7 exclusively and completely skipped Vista and Win8, for obvious reasons.

  5. monty72 - 9 years ago

    Seems to have killed my WIFI speed. Boot camped Windows 7, 78 Mbps. Yosemite, 30.5 Mbps. All on the same machine sat on the desk in the same position.

    • monty72 - 9 years ago

      It appears the problem is related to bluetooth. Turned my bluetooth off and the wifi is stable and back up to 78Mbps. Not a great start

  6. dailycardoodle - 9 years ago

    I’d love to, downloading for nearly 24 hours now – it says 6 hours remaining. :-(

  7. John Smith - 9 years ago

    Personally I’ll be leaving it a while.

    I’ll let other people find out what all the (inevitable) problems are and update when they’ve been fixed.

  8. Edison Wrzosek - 9 years ago

    I upgraded my personal production MBP E2011 13″ last night, and everything went smoothly, until I decided to enable TRIM support on my aftermarket SSD… Didn’t realize Yosemite gained KEXT driver code signing, which nuked my system on reboot! A quick DDG search let me find what I needed to restore functionality.

    Funny though, Windows has had driver code signing for years, and now that Apple has brought it to OS X (even though not really needed IMHO), the developers of those TRIM enablers are now screaming bloody murder, and that this is the first step to having to jailbreak OS X, give me a break!

    Also, Safari on Yosemite is MUCH faster, I was like WHOA! I still see very minor graphical issues in Dark Mode, but overall no deal breakers. And so far no issues with any of my wireless radios, though I’m thoroughly bummed that my 2011 doesn’t support Handoff :(

    BTW, this is the FIRST time I’ve done (and am sticking with, for now) an in-place OS X upgrade, and have not felt the need to wipe and reload fresh… Apple really hit a home run with Yosemite it looks like! Now, bring those engineers back to the iOS team and give us the same polish there!

    • I had the same issue, wondered if i should reenable TRIM support or not, as it will disable code signing. Did a bit of research about TRIM and come to conclusion that TRIM is far too much important to disable. and the security disadvantage is similar to running Mavericks.

  9. theelectroclassic - 9 years ago

    How do you get those statistics

    • pecospeet - 9 years ago

      Your browser has a big mouth and likes to talk about you behind your back.

    • Ben Lovejoy - 9 years ago

      Any website you visit logs a bunch of data about your machine, including OS and browser names and versions

  10. Joaquim Inverno - 9 years ago

    As someone who loves design, there are elements that drive e crazy, like the spotlight search, it’s nice what they did with it but at the same time, if I click on the top of the screen, something I have been doing for the past 4 years, to search, and something pops up in the middle of the screen, it’s weird, but it’s ok, I’m not complaining about it being changed, I think it looks distracting and it appears out of nowhere for no apparent reason, I don’t like certain element like the next and previous icons, I’m not happy with how they put together other visual elements, but at the end of the day, this was a good update, and I’m happy with it!

    • Joaquim Inverno - 9 years ago

      Some fonts look weird, some icons look weird too like calendar and preferences, I think OS X should look like a bit more like iOS, it’s looks more plastic than iOS for sure, but again, I like it, it feels like I have a new mac.

  11. ricardogomez297167426 - 9 years ago

    I’m diggin’ it. I’m usually an early adopter. I think this is definitely better than Mavericks.

    I didn’t think I would like the flat design. But I’m feeling the love. I always complained that the Mac OS never really feels professional. I’m over that :-) Safari does seem to run faster. Pleased. Everything seems to run a little faster.

    Found a few glitches: Playing movies on an external monitor doesn’t always work. Usually have to restart the computer. Adobe Lightroom won’t show new PSD files in the library. Photoshop might have some issues but I’m not sure yet. I still get work done. Watching Youtube files in full screen mode and working on a smaller screen will change the resolution of the video.

    Little concerned about the Adobe issues but it’s not a terrible burden.

    Overall, good job.

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