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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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If it's so lag-g-g-g-ing and non-responsive as iOS11. Then I better wait with the update :|

You have problems with iOS 11?

Anyways, it's definitely stable, honestly I feel like it's the most stable .0 release I've been on (have been going beta -> GM on almost all releases).

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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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!

Do you know if the APFS conversion affects Bootcamp at all?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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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.

Ah I stand corrected, cool

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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

Do you really have the button? I saw this headline and tried to update the Macs I have that are waiting for this update, but none of them see it in the App Store.

And the page linked still says, "Available 9.25".

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

General animation things because of Metal 2. APFS is awesome when copy pasting (instant), Safari's faster, and general performance increase (subjective of course).

There are tons of small changes here and there!

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Not entirely clear why

Might have something to do with the fact that APFS was designed explicitly with SSDs in mind.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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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?

I've been running it since dev preview 1, no Homebrew issues whatsoever over the past 2+ months.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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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.

Plus there's obvious rendering problems with the site's nav on Chrome. Made obvious when you click that little bag icon at the very right of the nav.

I'm convinced they don't bother to visit the site on anything but Safari anymore.

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