I have a 2016 MBP 13 with 16gb of ram. Is Catalina a stable now to upgrade?
I am concerned that it slows down my Mac.
The new apps for Music and Books are beyond disappointing and have taken several steps back in functionality and stability.
Never to return most likely...
Quicktime comes to mind..
I have a 2016 MBP 13 with 16gb of ram. Is Catalina a stable now to upgrade?
I am concerned that it slows down my Mac.
You can downgrade to Mojave if your machine came with it or earlier. I don’t want to. I want the App to work. It’s not the same as iTunes. Here’s some light reading for you.Why does everyone complain about theiTunesMusic app? It actually looks closer to the iTunes app on my PowerBook running OS X 10.2 Jaguar. You'd think that would be a welcome bit of nostalgia from the Aqua era. But no. Complain about nothing more than a name change. It's the same app people, works the same way!
I do remember reading a ton of hate about iTunes. People wishing it'd burn and never see the light of day ever again. My, the times, they indeed, are a'changin'.
I'm glad you can actually downgrade a Mac myself. I remember what a nasty pastel mess Yosemite was at the time and was happy to know I could get
OS X Mountain Lion back. I believe one can still downgrade even today, using the internet recovery. I do wish that same option were available back when iOS 7 took over my iPhone 4 and iPad 3.
I admit I never liked having to use iTunes in the past to transfer music to an iPhone/iPod (back when you couldn't download music via the phone/pod itself) as it felt more like a throwback to 1998 when the Palm Pilot was all the rage. Here we were in 2007 using docks and cables to transfer data to a futuristic smartphone as if it were the year 1998.
So admittedly, I hated that part. I wanted a solution where I could just use wifi on my iPhone and download my entire library without needing a computer at all tethered to it. Eventually that came true and iCloud has been doing the syncing with any new Apple product wirelessly since. So I do know they removed that part of the app. But The UI has become more reminiscent of the old 10.2 app and I can still buy music through it so that myth is gone as well. I really only use it to play music or add music to my library and thank god the cable is finally gone!!!
So I have only noticed the name change. Even the icon still looks like iTunes' icon. The UI is a flatter version of my G4's UI. Missing brushed aluminum, sure, but that's merely aesthetics.
OS X 10.2 app:
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Your article also claims radio was removed--I've read others claiming the same. But check my screenshot out--there's radio tab right on the left. So it was never removed at all!
I want to get my PB out and install Jaguar now..
I was given my PB (G4 Titanium complete with two batteries and the iconic 'chipped' hinges) back in 2014, but it had permissions issues, (was running 10.3 during that time) and the hard drive often sounded like it were dying and the system would freeze. I got a disc image from Archive.org of 10.2 Jaguar and wiped and reinstalled it. No more hard drive clicking issue, no permissions issue and it appears to work. Downloaded Netscape 9 (the last version released) and it can still pull up a limited number of SSL secured sites. Still a quite usable machine. I download podcasts to it and use itunes to play them, but could do the same on my current MBP.
If you play with Jaguar again, I highly recommend setting the built-in Internet Explorer browser's home page to http://theoldnet.com for a nostalgia trip!
When I did an initial upgrade, I felt that my mac slowed down a bit; as a result, I used time machine to get back to Mojave...I don’t have any 32bit apps. My biggest fear is that my ma is getting slower with each MacOS iteration...It was unstable?
Been on Catalina on my work MBP since a few days after release. Zero issues thus far.
Still on Mojave at home simply because I'm still playing the only 32 bit steam game I've got.
What do you mean?I don't wish to sound a grump or anything, but ain't it disappointing we have to question wether Catalina is any good, after all this time?
That it isn’t stable for some people after being released months ago. I won’t go near it with my 2018 MacMini using hdmi. Mojave works and I’m keeping it that way.When I did an initial upgrade, I felt that my mac slowed down a bit; as a result, I used time machine to get back to Mojave...I don’t have any 32bit apps. My biggest fear is that my ma is getting slower with each MacOS iteration...
Im a Mac user for 13 years now and since Lion, I think that Apple is in an update rush and the OS‘s get worse...
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What do you mean?