So, to save people some upgrade grief, I offer these tips: When upgrading from OS X 10.7.3 to 10.7.4 today, upon reboot, my Mac got stuck in a power-up loop, in which it would switch on, play the startup ‘bong’ sound, display the Apple logo, and then shut off and do it all again, endlessly.Īfter the first upgrade, I was advised to use the download the Client Combo package and update my system that way rather than using the Software Update utility so, I restored my system from a week-old Time Machine backup, and then updated the OS via the Client Combo package, which executed seemlessly.Īfter today’s upgrade woes (using the Client Combo package), the fix was too boot into safe mode, run the Disk Utility, and repair both the disk (which was fine) and the filesystem permissions, which typically, and certainly today, needed some love.įortunately, this fixed my most recent problem but it seems that after two botched upgrades in a row, I should expect problems, and that a disk/permissions repair will be par for the course.
When upgrading from OS X 10.7.2 to 10.7.3, upon rebooting and logging in, the menu bar, buttons and other user interface elements were graphically messed up with ‘test pattern’-like colour sequences, making them unreadable and unusable worse than that, every application or utility I tried to launch would crash immediately. On the past two occasions on which I have upgraded my Mac’s operating system to the latest release, I have encountered show-stopping problems after the upgrade. Now the challenge is to go out and shoot some images! With 4GB of RAM, saving 16-bit, multi-layered, half-gig-sized PSD files tended to take much longer than desirable. While I have not processed any images in Photoshop yet, it sure loads faster, and I would expect I will be able to complete my work more quickly.
I am already seeing a much faster response from applications.
For the very inexpensive sum of around $62, I have given my three-and-a-half-year-old Mac a new lease on life. I did some reearch this morning, and headed out to purchase a pair of 4GB RAM modules. Naturally, the Apple-branded memory was expensive, but the staffer recommended I order generic RAM online. I called into the Apple Store in the city and during my visit I enquired about RAM. The upgrade is something I have had buried in the back of my mind for a few years, but I never took affirmative steps until yesterday while I was engaging in some hi-tech retail therapy. Three and a half years later, I have doubled my Mac’s RAM from 4GB to 8GB. At the time, equipping it with its maximum of 8GB was considerably expensive. When I ordered it in mid- 2009, I ordered it equipped with 4GB of RAM (2 x 2GB DIMMs). I have just performed a long-overdue RAM upgrade on my mid- 2009 MacBook Pro 17″.
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