![]() ![]() With APFS it's easy to have additional space sharing volumes, so you can always keep a High Sierra or Mojave install around just in case. I'd say go for Catalina and then you can upgrade to 11 or 12 later this year or 13 next year, so you have options without having to suffer the new look and the Big Sur immaturities.īut check carefully if you can leave the 32-bit world behind first. So then it's between Catalina and Big Sur. If updates are important, then upgrading to Mojave won't buy you much, as that will almost certainly reach the end of the road this year. Could be so compelling we all want to switch to that immediately after the summer. The updates are insanely large (well, got fiber to the home this week, so I should be able to handle that part), the security tightening is getting more annoying.Īnd on't forget that in a few days we'll hear about MacOS 12. Last year I installed Big Sur on an additional APFS volume on my 2013 MBP to see what the fuss was about. Biggest issue is stupid but still very annoying: you can no longer change the column widths in the Mail.app message list. I even considered installing Mojave on the Mac Mini, but after giving it a chance it wasn't that bad. I remember there were bad things about Catalina at the time that kept me from upgrading, don't remember how much more than the breaking of 32-bit apps that was. I have two MacBook Pros still on Mojave and got a Mac Mini last year that came with Catalina. Since both Catalina & Big Sur only support 64-bit apps the main penalty for me is unavoidable with either.Īnyone out there thing I should just move to Mojave?Īny tips and tricks for the upgrade? Pitfalls I should avoid? High Sierra was very stable for me and I remember Catalina catching some flack for not being stable, I see the latest Catalina release is 10.15.7 so hopefully this is solid by now. I still wanted to get some feedback on the move though. ![]() It would seem sensible to upgrade to Catalina first as I know historically Apple makes downgrading difficult. So I'm currently backing up my entire HDD to a bootable volume and going to install either Catalina or Big Sur. Some things are now starting to protest that the OS version is too old to support updates to software e.g. ![]() There were a few things like still being able to use Aperture where I have a large catalogue of organised raw photos and 1 Password version 6.86 from the App Store that I paid for (where as the upgraded version work on a subscription model). I've been running High Sierra (10.13.6) for ages on my iMac for no other reason than it works and I didn't feel like I was missing anything. But your MacBook can go all the way to Monterey, which is fairly stable at this point, so you could also just go to that.I'll go and read the Ars reviews but thought I'd post here for individual experiences also. But Catalina is at least still getting updates. It didn’t, it still came on and still got super hot. I even started leaving the lid open, thinking that the increased airflow would help. I’d go to my MacBook and find it was scorching hot with the screen displaying some weird error screen. ![]() But the waking up wasn’t the concern, the concern was that whatever was causing it to wake up ran the CPU at 9000%. My model doesn’t have “power nap” or anything of the sort. The issues at hand were that the MacBook would wake from sleep randomly. Like, problems so severe it took high level Apple Support, several reinstallation’s of macOS, a deep diagnostic that Apple engineers were going to look at and the problem still wasn’t resolved until Catalina came out. Mojave gave me major problems on my mid-2012 MacBook Pro. ![]()
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