Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Mac OS Big Sur 11.4 -> latest Big Sur or -> update to latest Sonoma

K

KarlsMoody

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 19, 2017
7
0
Hello everyone!

I have an M1 Macbook Air with 16GB, 256GB. The last time I updated my OS on this machine was way back, so it is currently on 11.4. I seem to remember reading about the then upcoming update being somewhat subpar, and I simply decided to stay with 11.4, because things had been running smoothly. I am not a power user by any means, but I am now curious about the latest OS. With my particular machine, would I be better off updating to the latest version of Sonoma, or the latest version of Big Sur? A clean install is out of the question. I have a fresh backup on an external SSD.

Thanks! And sorry, if the question is very basic or even stupid...
 
bogdanw said:
I have that with 8GB RAM and Sonoma is running well. If you waited that long, maybe wait a little bit more for Sonoma 14.4.
Click to expand...
Thanks to everyone for the replies, I am definitely doing the Sonoma update.

Is there a specific reason to hold out for the next update? Added performance, security, relevant features?
 
KarlsMoody said:
Thanks to everyone for the replies, I am definitely doing the Sonoma update.

Is there a specific reason to hold out for the next update? Added performance, security, relevant features?
Click to expand...
You could wait forever, but 11.4 is way out of date and Big Sur was fairly buggy so you're probably better off updating now.
 
chrfr said:
You could wait forever, but 11.4 is way out of date and Big Sur was fairly buggy so you're probably better off updating now.
Click to expand...
Yes, and I even set the blue desktop background from Mac OS X Tiger when I got this M1 Macbook Air as a throwback to my very first Mac (white Macbook), so it is truly a ridiculous configuration. But yeah, gonna update overnight, thanks everyone, this has saved me a lot of time.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back