or update your intel mac that can run sequoia, and get on with your day. intel macs that are compatible are in fact compatible đź‘Ť
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Intel mac users, stay away
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I usually stay one or two releases behind these days. The tacked on bloat on top of an increasingly buggy OS always makes me nervous before upgrading any production hardware.
Good strategy, I finally learned my lesson this time. Probably going to go with Ventura on my 2020 iMac.
Funny, I just "upgraded" my 2020 iMac from Ventura to Monterey last week.
16 but I was checking activity monitor and I was at around 12-13gb / 16gb, which is normal behaviour for me
If your Mac has enough storage, you'll be able to install a fresh Sequoia copy into a volume within the same APFS container, without the need for an external drive or upgrading the current system.
No NVME PCI-E storage drop outs in Monterey. Unlike in Sonoma and Ventura. Those were a “feature improvement” from Apple.
I have Sequoia on one 7,1 machine which runs okay, but experience with the W6800X Duo (either 1 or 2 of them) in Sequoia brought endless kernel panics so my other machine is staying on Sonoma - reliable.
I just downloaded it on my 2018 Mac Mini and I don't notice anything, good or bad.
In fact it looks the same as the previous OS, I don't see anything new
Odd thing is that it didn't even prod me to sign in to Apple like it does with updates. It just downloaded and that was that.
In fact it looks the same as the previous OS, I don't see anything new
Odd thing is that it didn't even prod me to sign in to Apple like it does with updates. It just downloaded and that was that.
Well, I installed Sequoia on an iMac Pro a couple days ago and experienced significant issues with Safari connecting to web pages. Sometimes it would connect to a page after a minute or more, and other times it would fail to connect and report that there was no Internet connection. I checked a number of Apple fan sites and heard similar complaints. I disabled wifi and voila, my connections were back to quick and stable connections using an ethernet connection to my router.
I gave Apple support a call today and the Apple Specialist began a process of troubleshooting Safari and wifi which quickly ended when she informed me of this:
I'm a bit surprised that this slipped through, but looking forward to the "new update" soon.
I gave Apple support a call today and the Apple Specialist began a process of troubleshooting Safari and wifi which quickly ended when she informed me of this:
I'm a bit surprised that this slipped through, but looking forward to the "new update" soon.
There seems to be two schools of thought on best macOS to use on a 2020 iMac, use the macOS it came with and engineered for x64(High Sierra) or newer versions to get the security updates, which could add more bloat and slow your machine down with features you may never use. For me, I don't care about iPhone mirroring and Stage Manager.
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I've had zero issues using Brave and Firefox on Sequoia with my iMac Pro. Sequoia feels the same as Sonoma to me outside of a few bugs in Music and the tiling, which I disabled.
my i5 2020 iMac with 128gb of RAM is wonderful.
my m1 Mac mini with 8gb... practically ruined,
Yup, which is why I made sure my 2018 Mini had 16Gb RAM.
I know the OS just gets more bloated with time.
If the new Mini still has 8Gb RAM standard that would be shocking
My 2014 MacBook Pro 15 came with 16 GB standard. Same thing with the 2023 MacBook Pro 14/16. It's really time for a bump.
Simply avoid any 8GB RAM configuration if choosing any new/used windows PC/MAC today. no matter who from APPLE said 8GB is enough
give RAM size higher priority than CPU power when choosing a configuration, CPU power may give 1 or 2 seconds faster when open an app, but more RAM will make much better long-time using experience.
give RAM size higher priority than CPU power when choosing a configuration, CPU power may give 1 or 2 seconds faster when open an app, but more RAM will make much better long-time using experience.
one more thing, for most office users or normal daily work, single core performance is more important than multi-core performance, many daily-use APPs are more sensitive to single core performance.
I used to choose the highest CPU configuration before, after long time I realized I really didn't need that powerful CPU which consume more battery power and release much more heat.
I'd rather choose more RAM instead of more powerful CPU if I could choose again. I will follow this rule for my future PC/MAC config
I used to choose the highest CPU configuration before, after long time I realized I really didn't need that powerful CPU which consume more battery power and release much more heat.
I'd rather choose more RAM instead of more powerful CPU if I could choose again. I will follow this rule for my future PC/MAC config
For most office work, even single-core performance isn't that important if you're talking about the amount of work done. My current use systems have GB5 single core scores ranging form 836 to 1,786. I use these systems interchangeably with no detriment to the amount of work done. The ones with higher scores may save a fraction of a second or be more responsive but it doesn't matter in terms of effectiveness.