Apple has a new operating system for its popular Macs. I'd love to tell you how it works and whether it's any good.
I'd love to. But I can't. When I installed the new operating system, which Apple calls Yosemite, my computer acted like I'd just tried to choke it to death. It gagged and seemed ready to barf. It lost the Wi-Fi connection every time it booted up or woke up from sleep. It sometimes paused for more than a minute when I tried to do essential things. It was unstable all the time.
Faced with this disaster -- after all, this was the computer I write with, the one I do research on -- I did two things. I checked Apple forums on the Web to see if others were having the same problems, and then, when that was confirmed, I decided to revert to the previous operating system, which Apple calls Mavericks.
Sorry. I wasn't being exactly straight with you. I did another thing. I said some bad words.
A lot of bad words.
Before I go on, let me explain something old-time Mac owners already know. In the good old days, when you bought a Mac, you paid more and got more, especially in terms of stability. Windows computers could sputter and stall as much as they wanted to. Macs would sail on. Updates were nothing; you could do them while napping.
That was the glorious past.
I have to explain something else. Apple no longer believes its users have a right to back out of an upgrade. I'm not teasing or kidding. Apple provides no way whatsoever to do this. Own a Mac and decide to upgrade the operating system? Look, pal, we tested it and it's great. Or we thought we tested it. No matter. Get over it. We're Apple.
No. You're Microsoft. The old Microsoft. The guys that couldn't shoot straight. The company behind those awful versions of Windows that came before XP. Microsoft before it grew up.
Like that old version of Microsoft, you're pushing software out the door before it's tested and ready. And you're not very good at testing it anyway.
Back to reality. As I said, Apple makes no effort to find a way for Mac users to revert to a previous operating system. The Mac actually refuses to let you install an older version. (This is still hard for me to believe, and I'm a tech guy and longtime Mac user!)
So I wiped everything off, found an old clone of my entire system on a spare hard drive and dribbled it over to my computer's boot drive. I ended up with what my computer was like before I lost my mind the other day and trusted Apple.
I didn't lose much, maybe a bunch of notes and some photos. But mostly I lost a lot of confidence in Apple.
So welcome to Yosemite, Apple's latest operating system! It's great!
So they tell me.
Write to Al Fasoldt at afasoldt@gmail.com.
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