More Adventures In El Capitan 10.11.1 and iOS 9.1 Updating

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After a marathon of downloading over last weekend and through Monday as well, my three main workhorse Apple devices are running on OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan and iOS 9.1 respectively.

Updating the late 2008 Core 2 Duo aluminum MacBook from 10.11 to 10.11.1 took another 12 hour download session via my rural Satellite broadband service, although the mid-2013 13-inch MacBook Air downloaded the update from 10.10 to Yosemite in three hours, but took another two hours give or take to install it.

Updating the iPad Air 2 from iOS 9.0.4 to iOS 9.1 proved particularly problematical. Selecting Search For Updates in Settings repeatedly just produced some star wheel rotation and eventually a dialog informing of failure due to a server error.

I resorted to the old school method of using iTunes on the Mac to execute the iOS download, which took an astonishing 14 hours or so and the installation itself another lengthy late night session that I didn’t time.

Happily, everything installed successfully.

Early observations: El Capitan 10.11.1 seems to have squashed the tedious WiFI dropout bug in 10.11 on the MacBook, and stanched Yosemite’s prodigious battery drain on the MacBook Air.

The iPad Air 2 seems noticably livelier on iOS 9.1, and has a more stable, less betaesque feel. You can read my general comments on iOS 9 here:
https://www.macprices.net/2015/09/30/ios-9-reflections-ten-days-in-the-book-mystique/

My The ‘Book Mystique blog on running El Capitan on the seven-year-old MacBook is here:
https://www.macprices.net/2015/10/21/should-you-upgrade-your-older-mac-to-el-capitan-the-book-mystique/

So far, no regrets.

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