peterg Loc: Santa Rosa, CA

Strange. I never had similar nightmares with any of my old Macs with any upgrades.

BobbyT Loc: Southern California

Going back to Windows??? You may be in dire need of a psychiatrist.

tomcat

Did you call AppleCare tech support? The right techs would never have accepted this situation and left you with this unacceptable upgrade. I have had no trouble over the years upgrading to any of the new OS versions. When I updated to the newest version of Yosemite 10.10.3 a couple of months ago, I could not connect my iMac to the internet, when all other macs and apple devices I have would connect. I spent 3 days and many hours on the phone with AppleCare senior advisor and engineers until they finally found the problem with the iMac.. it was an obscure piece of adware that had been surrepticiously installed. Once that file was removed from 2 directories on my computer (one of which I would have never looked and didn't even know existed), the machine booted up perfectly and into Yosemite 10.10.3 and connects likkity split. AppleCare is worth every penny of the price for technical help. Just wondering why you put up with this for a year?

LParis Loc: Victoria, BC Canada

yes, of course they do -- but you really don't need to use Nikon software at all. Macs themselves have 2 ways to get your photos off your camera SD card - you can use Apple's iPhoto (now called Photos) - which I personally hate and haven't used since the first year I got a Mac (because it pulls the photos into its program and you can have a devil of a time locating one to edit in another app). I use another program which comes free with your Mac called Image Capture - it allows you to take the photos from your card and put them into a folder that you have named -- I prefer to keep my photos filed by date, so every time I off-load, I create a new folder (Image Capture allows you to do this and also determine where that folder should go) with the current date and put all the photos taken that day in it. I also add an identifier to the folder -- e.g. 2015-06-13 Saxe Point. I also file all my photos in folders by year. I know there are diehard iPhoto users out there but sorry, it just irritates the heck out of me. Once you've off-loaded your photos, there are several ways to look at them without importing them into an editing program. One I really like is by Macphun called Snapselect - it doesn't allow you to edit, but you can see every photo (RAW or jpeg) and if need be, you can get rid of obvious duds before you start editing.

tomcat

You really don't have to use Image Capture to put your images into a folder like you mention above. I just use Finder to create a new folder on my desktop, then drag the files from my card into this folder. And then after using QuickLook, I drag the keepers into my LaCie external HD. Thanks for the tip on Snapselect. I use Macphun software all the time, but this program somehow slipped past me.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

Really? I guess your mileage varies.. I have been thru several upgrades... Started with Leopard, upgraded in place to Snow Leopard, then upgraded in place to Lion, then upgraded in place to Mountain Lion, then upgraded in place to Mavericks, then upgraded in place to Yosemite. No troubles at all, other then a few apps that of course would no longer work in the newest OS, which were not surprises.

Cannot believe anyone would actually think of going back to Windows! :)

When El Capitan comes out, will be upgrading in place as well.

DesertRat71 Loc: Arizona

That's the bewildering part (that some experienced few issues while others were brought to a screeching halt) considering both the OS and the hardware are proprietary to Apple. I have a family member who works for Microsoft and I'd rather take a beating, knowing what I know, than to revert to Windows. Mavericks came close to administering a sufficient beating.

Linux is solid but suffers from the same primary issue as OS/2 did - a dearth of native applications. I've run all 3 and OS/2 at the time was superior to both OS X and Windows but IBM's marketing arrogance got in their way.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

I started with DOS, then on to Windows for quite awhile, actually made a career out of managing a large state network of Windows machines, finally got tired of the Microsoft racket and jumped to Linux, after a few years on Linux moved to Mac's and cannot think of any reason to switch back, even if I had to fresh install an older OS X ;)

BTW - I bought a copy of OS/2 that would make 2 copies that IBM sold ;)

jeryh Loc: Oxfordshire UK

You will find that all Major camera brands are compatible

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Appropriate name, Maverick. Even Apple F's up occasionally, remember the Apple III and the LISA?

Microsoft bows our minds with pains-in-the-a** O/S's all the time, Windows 95, 2000, Vista, 8 / 8.1. Leaving Windows 3.1, N.T., 98SE, XP, and 7 to actually get something done with. PC machines are a mixed bag.

RON 11 Loc: Pittsburgh

They will need to pry my IMac out of my cold, dead fingers. That being said, it is still very advisable to have Apple Care. It will pay for itself many times over. it has for me..

DesertRat71 Loc: Arizona

Yeah, I know. It's the best thing out there, that's why I still have mine (and my Macbook Pro Retina) and when Yosemite fixed the majority of the issues I was having I breathed a sigh of relief.

I should have skipped Mavericks. Unfortunately I'd become too complacent in trusting Apple's development team. You can bet I'll wait several months before applying the next "upgrade". Believe me, for a propeller-head it's tough to wait.

kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA

They make a “28” inch? They have a “27” inch, perhaps you meant that. Anyway, that’ll be my next one.

hpucker99 Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

Make that 3 copies, I ran OS/2 for awhile. Thought it was much better than the version of Windows out then.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

You dont really need Nikon software, but you do need the firmware upgrades which are also in Windows and Mac versions. I also use Camera Control Pro for tethering my D7100 as it is much better and has more controls than LR or other tething programs. I have an a version of Nikon Capture NX2 because it was my first "extreme" post processor. (unfortunately NX sold the develpment part of the program to Google and Nikon created Caputure DX) Nx was a very good post processor which could do somethings better than the older versions of LR. Dx is not as good but the price is right , it is free. Then again, I keep; several different post processing programs on the computer to work on problems that I can't seem to do easily in LR/PS (which is a problem that seems to be going away with each new version of Adobe). But as they say, hard drive space and memory are cheap so I keep them for the sake of keeping them. From LR 5 forward Lightroom and Photoshop have been able to handle almost all of my pp needs with the exception of tethering which (as far as I am concerned) Camera Control Pro from Nikon which allows you to control everything on the camera from your computer as if you were holding the camera in you hands, is hard to match.