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tokanizar | 12 years ago

In my opinion, Mavericks is the worst OS X version so far. It's caused a handful of crashes/hangs to my Macbook Pro, which I only encountered with about once or twice a year with Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion. I'm not sure it is caused by the OS itself or the compatibility of the apps I installed, but it's still bad.

I just had a crash few mins ago after I reinstalled the OS entirely last week. According to the crash log, it has something to do with the "kernel_task". That sucks!

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k2enemy|12 years ago

Each major release of OS X, I know that I should wait until the x.1 release, but I get excited and install the x.0 release anyway. And every release, the same thing happens. Tons of bugs, crashes, and frustration and I swear that next release I'll wait until x.1.

wonderzombie|12 years ago

Man, am I just insanely lucky? I've never had such trouble with x.0 releases, during the upgrade or after.

FWIW, I've used at least 2 Macs concurrently since '09, and one since '06.

tokanizar|12 years ago

I guess it would be a wise move. However, we are in 10.9.1 right now and the problem doesn't seem to be gone. Sighhh...

DrJokepu|12 years ago

> Mavericks is the worst OS X version so far

You have clearly never used Cheetah.

mitchty|12 years ago

As someone thats been on the osx train since 10.2. I get somewhat amused by the "OSX N+latest is the worst OSX" comments.

I had the (dis)pleasure of using someone's 10.1 machine, oy wow, surprised that even got released.

As a counterpart, mavericks has been the most stable osx for myself so far. Additionally the battery life improvements gave me an extra hour on battery alone. You can pry mavericks from my cold dead hands at this point. The energy tab is also really useful at finding out what is using up battery needlessly (looking at you chrome/firefox).

chongli|12 years ago

Or OS X Public Beta! Wow, was that thing ever slow on my B&W G3!

tokanizar|12 years ago

Sorry, I must have made it clearly. It's among the OS that I've used. I just have been using Mac for about 4 years.

raingrove|12 years ago

I think Snow Leopard (10.6) was the most stable OS X release.