Good for you, but I have heard from my friend that after the update her macbook got slow.
I use my macbook for music production, so most of the time I use garageband on it.
And that proves what? At best that's hearsay. What I will tell you, and this is something that is well known amongst regular computer users, as well as the very. knowledgeable, after installing a new OS, there is a period of 'reindexing' that occurs. With macOS, that involves Spotlight, and it's been well documented for many, many years, that this causes a temporary slowing down of a computer.
It struck me that a poll charting the move back to a previous macOS version after some time on Tahoe is probably more informative and indicative of where things lie, so here it is:
GarageBand… may I ask if pressing 0 returns you to the start of an instrument/the project? It hasn’t worked for me in years and I’ve given up reporting the same things over and over.
what happens under the hood is what i care most about (and in that regard, tahoe is pretty great so far)...
What is your newer Mac? I just downgraded my M4 MBA. It is much better and wasn't hard to do.
M5 MBP (base model). I thought about using it for a server since Tahoe now supports the remote SSH headless reboot with File Vault, but it is much slower than our existing server (a Mac Pro running Catalina). If 26.4 or 26.5 doesn’t make a big difference I will likely just sell the m5
Welcome aboard! Yeah, I suspect either many people here are doing more niche stuff like running custom software and such that may be causing issues with the software for them, or maybe ran betas of Tahoe which often leads to rollover bugs, or are otherwise more adventurous with tweaking their computers in ways that most average users don’t, and so are more likely to encounter bugs and issues. I’m on the absolute cheapest Apple Silicon Mac that runs Tahoe (the base spec M1 Mac Mini), and Tahoe runs butter smooth. 👍🏻. I’m running developer betas on a 5-6 year old budget model computer with 8GB RAM and the oldest Apple Silicon M1 chip with the weakest graphics performance of all Apple Silicon Macs, running it with an LG 4K monitor I picked up for cheap refurbished, and using a cheap Walmart brand HDMI cable for connection, and I am not encountering any bugs beyond the cmd+tab app switcher I never normally use anyways not changing color between Light Mode and Dark Mode… 🤷🏼♂️. Yet I should be at the very highest chance of encountering all of these supposed “planned obsolescence performance slowdowns”, but I haven’t… 🤦🏼♂️. And btw, the “planned obsolescence” argument every time someone encounters a bug gets very old… 🙄🤦🏼♂️. Apple is well known for providing great support for their devices, they even literally pushed out software updates for devices like the iPhone 5S! That’s hardly “planned obsolescence”… 🤦🏼♂️🙄
None. GarageBand has so many bugs it broke my spirit.
Not only that, but in Apple's case, they're such a successful company that the media loves to jump on the slightest complaints to say things like "Apple screwed up bigtime", "customers hate Tahoe", "Apple is DOOOOOMED".
Anything to get viewers to their sites, to drive ad revenue.
You check in with a friend, to ascertain her computers health? Hmmmm.
