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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by pantulis »

What about performance on older machines? My mid-2010 MBP is still supported, but I'm afraid of switching if performance takes a hit. It has dual 512GB SSDs and 8GB RAM, so it runs Sierra with more or less success, but it's usable.

With all this filesystem level changes, does High Sierra have more hardware requirements than Sierra?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by andy_ppp »

cjsuk wrote: post #2

Does anyone know of any issues with this before I press the button?

Homebrew often seems to have important packages break with each major macOS release. I’ll let you go first, anyone know of anything at the moment?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by twobyfour »

feketegy wrote: post #4
cjsuk wrote: post #2

Does anyone know of any issues with this before I press the button?

I would wait at least a couple of weeks until all the quirks are ironed out. Especially if you're a programmer, allow a little time for all the apps to catch up and update their versions. High sierra comes with big changes like the Apple File System, and I'm sure there are a lot of stuff going on under the hood.

Yup, it's a well established truism at this point that if you need a stable system (or don't have excellent data backups) you should never install the .0 version of any Apple OS. And while many Cocoa apps should be forwards-compatible out of the box, if you rely on Homebrew it may be several months before the packages you need are all updated.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by Tehnix »

cjsuk wrote: post #2

Does anyone know of any issues with this before I press the button?

Have been on it since beta 3 or something. This has been one of the more smooth transitions, no dev tools broken, and only few apps had some quirks that I filed bug reports for, which are now fixed.

The APFS change really isn't something you are likely to hit, heck you'd have to go out of your way to make it a problem.

Deffo recommending it :) Speed ups are nice!

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by soneil »

jmkni wrote: post #9
cjsuk wrote: post #2

Does anyone know of any issues with this before I press the button?

IIRC it doesn’t support Fusion drives, so I can’t upgrade my Mac Mini yet.

They're supported, they're just not upgraded to apfs. At the moment, only SSDs get upgraded automatically. Not entirely clear why, or whether that's a long-term plan.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by samstave »

mullsork wrote: post #7

Sort of off topic but what has happened to the web design team at Apple? Their landing pages used to be extremely pleasant to read but by now I often struggle to read their headlines. The blurred background with text on top is not easy on my eyes at all. Perhaps my eyes are starting to go bad... Their page for the new iPhone had the same issues. In my opinion their web designs has gone down hill this year.

Hipsterism is a thing, apple may hold a patent on it.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by charlesdm »

Tehnix wrote: post #17
cjsuk wrote: post #2

Does anyone know of any issues with this before I press the button?

Have been on it since beta 3 or something. This has been one of the more smooth transitions, no dev tools broken, and only few apps had some quirks that I filed bug reports for, which are now fixed. The APFS change really isn't something you are likely to hit, heck you'd have to go out of your way to make it a problem. Deffo recommending it :) Speed ups are nice!

Speed ups? Where are you seeing speed ups? I'm on a Macbook (last gen) and have been using High Sierra for the last month or so. Aside from my changed desktop background, I haven't actually spotted (any / many?) changes.
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