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How is Catalina on a 2015 MBP?
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It’s great. No performance degradation from Mojave in any of the dozens of machine I’ve used it on.
Works great on my 2015. I did a clean install as I had a lot of disk space (100+ GB) used up by "system" that I wanted to clear out. The only issue I had was a compatibility problem with MS Word + Catalina + 2015 MBP with Radeon Graphics that has since been resolved. Echoing @ScreenSavers, performance is great!
I had it running perfectly on a 2014 13”. Very fast with no issues. No performance downgrade over Mavericks.
I have Catalina 10.15.2 running on a MacBook Pro 2015 15 inch. The only thing that disappoints me is that Music doesn't keep all the album illustrations and that Pages still can't paste and match style from a frame on the imdb web site (nothing happens). For the rest no complaints. The OS is snappy.
Sorry, slightly off topic: While I was waiting for my 16" MBP a friend lent me his old 2012 15" MBP with i7 and 8GB RAM/256GB SSD to play with Catalina. I clean installed the OS, wiping all existing partitions. I still have it, till the new year.
It's been wonderful. Super snappy and stable even with Xcode, Firefox (many many tabs), Safari, Apple TV etc running. I can imagine it will be even better on newer hardware.
It's been wonderful. Super snappy and stable even with Xcode, Firefox (many many tabs), Safari, Apple TV etc running. I can imagine it will be even better on newer hardware.