But more than that, the Blockbuster CD that came with my machine finally works. My startup delay is gone, memory fragmentation is much improved, and VM is an order-of-magnitude faster. ![]() Here is one particularly enthusiastic assessment from Dave Dorrin: "I've been very happy since upgrading my Performa 6360 to 8.1, including changing over to HFS. And, if you don't want to give up on Speed Doubler (or any other program that is not yet 8.1 compatible), I would not update to 8.1 until the program(s) come out with 8.1 compatible versions.įinally, many users are quite pleased with 8.1. That said, I would still be cautious about using HFS, at least until more tools are available to repair any problems that might arise with an HFS formatted drive. Overall, problems with 8.1 seem less than with most previous updates. Also bear in mind that many of the reported problems only affect a limited number of users (depending upon the Mac model and third party software in use). Before continuing, make sure that a Java SDK 1.7 or greater is installed and that the Java commands are available in your PATH environment variable. If you wait for an update that does not have any problems, you will never update again. This post shows how to setup Maven on Mac OS and how to create, build and run a new Maven Java project. Every previous OS had problems when it was released. My answer is: "Don't be put off by reports of problems. ![]() ![]() It's the sort of question I start getting about this time after every Mac OS update: "Given all the problems you've been reporting, should I hold off updating to Mac OS 8.1?"
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