Catalina improved performance?

[Robertjan88]

Planning to jump from OSX 10.14.6 to 10.15 soon.
Nevertheless, I was wondering what this update will do in terms of performance.
Using a 13 inch MacBook Pro 2018 edition (default config with 8GB DDR).
Will I see any increase or a decrease?

Thanks!

 

[jgbr]

I think you should read this forums before jumping. Wait for .1 atleast.

 

[kemo]

seriously...read a few posts to see what is Catalina all about, performance aside, its riddled with so many bugs people cant be serious installing it on their main machine

 

[mariogt]

Don't install it, wait for 10.15.3 or even more , too many bugs

 

[glhiii]

Well, my 2013 15" MacBook Pro Retina seems to be faster and smoother with Catalina -- very pleased with it.

 

[chris4565]

I also experienced some bugs in Catalina (but luckily no severe bugs that can't be solved) but regarding performance I feel like it's slightly improved compared to Mojave.

 

[VitaminX67]

Working perfectly on my 2015 Mbp.

 

[TokMok3]

Planning to jump from OSX 10.14.6 to 10.15 soon.
Nevertheless, I was wondering what this update will do in terms of performance.
Using a 13 inch MacBook Pro 2018 edition (default config with 8GB DDR).
Will I see any increase or a decrease?

Thanks!

Mojave at this moment is a very solid operating system. The only reason I decided to move and install Catalina is for SwiftUI... that's it, just for that. After all this days testing Catalina I don't regret. It's fast and smooth as Mojave, the Music App has some minor problems but they will fix it.

 

[Robertjan88]

I think you should read this forums before jumping. Wait for .1 atleast.

I noticed 10.15.1 is in beta. When can we most likely expect this update? Days, weeks, months?

 

[TokMok3]

I noticed 10.15.1 is in beta. When can we most likely expect this update? Days, weeks, months?

Few months maybe...

 

[Robertjan88]

Few months maybe...

Few months? To fix crucial bugs? Should be days in my opinion..like recent hotfixes for iOS.

 

[TokMok3]

Few months? To fix crucial bugs? Should be days in my opinion..like recent hotfixes for iOS.

What I do to avoid many of the problems that user complain is to do a full clean install from scratch. I'm running Catalina without problems. Black mode is nice....

 

[Robertjan88]

What I do to avoid many of the problems that user complain is to do a full clean install from scratch. I'm running Catalina without problems. Black mode is nice....

Ah yes, I tend to do the same. After a clean install (from a USB), I also wipe the SMC and RAM settings etc. Better safe than sorry.

 

[TokMok3]

Ah yes, I tend to do the same. After a clean install (from a USB), I also wipe the SMC and RAM settings etc. Better safe than sorry.

Then you know the routing , I do the same with my iPhone. The only problem at this moment is for users that depend on 32 bit applications, if you are in that group then stay with Mojave.

 

[Hastings101]

In my experience the UI is much smoother, but general performance seems the same. I'd wait to upgrade until the .1 or even .2 release for sure, a bit buggy still.

 

[Richard8655]

Works fine on 2012 Mac Mini. Performance is very good.

 

[lixuelai]

UI and text input is smoother. Overall quite happy with it.
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