So far, so good

I wanted to give the El Capitan upgrade 4.5 stars because I had an issue with Safari immediately after the installation was complete. Safari kept freezing as soon as I tried to visit any website. I looked up the issue and saw that it could be resolved by deselecting “Safari Suggestions” in the “Smart Search Field” portion under the Search tab in the Preferences section. The freezing immediately stopped and since then I’ve had no issues, which is why I opted for 5 stars instead of 4.

To give background on my Mac, I have a 15” Macbook Pro (mid-2012), 4GB Memory. I bought it in December 2012. I’d never upgraded from my original Lion 10.7.5 OS. Up until around July 2015 it ran beautifully, but then I started noticing that it would load media-heavy websites slower than usual and I’d see the spinning wheel more and more. Plus I could no longer upgrade Safari and Youtube, and Twitter defaulted me to some weird text version of the site. I read that upgrading the OS would likely solve these issues, but I saw so many negative reviews that I was scared to do it.

Finally, I had enough of it being sluggish and took a chance. Aside from the issue I mentioned above, I’m thrilled with the upgrade! It runs like it did when I first purchased it with no issues on media-heavy sites. I’m still getting used to the features so I can’t report on all the perks, but so far I feel that I’ve lost nothing and gained a computer that runs like new again, which was my primary goal. Everything (USB ports, apps, etc) work like before and all of my files (and even my passwords saved on various websites) were saved (I did back up my files prior to upgrading, just in case).

As someone else mentioned, maybe I got lucky. But I wanted to add my 2 cents because it was the recent positive reviews that encouraged me to give it a try. So far, I couldn’t be happier that I did.

Bumpy1977 about OS X El Capitan