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visarga on Jan 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Software Quality Questions

I tried to downgrade to Mavericks yesterday, it was almost impossible. The installer refuses to wipe clean and install a lower version unless you do some magic to the disk first and use web install. It took over 5 hours and I downloaded Mac OS 4 times from different sources, including Apple.

The ram it on our throats with free upgrade, then block our path to downgrade, unless we have a time machine backup to restore from. I didn't.

wiredfool on Jan 19, 2015 [–]

My wife and I have identical MBAirs, except that I got mine when it was shipping with Mavericks and she got Yosemite. I get about twice the batter life, and a lot less trouble with Pages/Numbers.

I'm thinking of wiping hers and installing from TimeMachine, then pulling in just her user data.

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