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antipaul

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Sep 19, 2016
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can someone speak to *stability* and *smoothness* on the Macbook 12 ("series 1", early 2015)?

I am on El Cap, use iCloud a lot, and do data science stuff with Terminal, Python, etc

Am wondering if it is as smooth as El Cap (esp. Mission control). Can someone speak to that?
 

akwarner

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Feb 26, 2006
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can someone speak to *stability* and *smoothness* on the Macbook 12 ("series 1", early 2015)?

I am on El Cap, use iCloud a lot, and do data science stuff with Terminal, Python, etc

Am wondering if it is as smooth as El Cap (esp. Mission control). Can someone speak to that?

I have been running Sierra on a 2015 MacBook through all of the betas since it was announced and it runs just like El Capitan. I have had no issues other than various fixes through the beta process. I installed the first GM when it was released and updated to the latest one late last week. No issues to report. Enjoy.

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antipaul

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Sep 19, 2016
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Great to hear. And there's one more thing: did you do a clean install or just upgrade?
 

Dwalls90

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I don't think Mac OS/OSX updates have had demanding hardware requirements for a while now. Mountain Lion (10.8) was supported on all Macs from ~ 2007/2008/2009 and newer, and Sierra (10.12) is supported on all Macs from ~2009/2010 or newer. Hope this helps!
 

antipaul

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Sep 19, 2016
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yes; although initially on 2015 Macbook 12", mission control was a bit choppy in OS X Yosemite. upgrading to El Cap did make it noticeably smoother, and it has been running great since then.
 

Z3man

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Feb 19, 2012
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Seems all good news on this thread, i am still going to give it a few days before i update my MB 2015 model.

Playing it safe nowadays, been caught out too many times downloading on first day of release.
 

Jetcat3

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I upgraded to Sierra today on my base model 2015 1.1Ghz MacBook and everything installed perfectly. I noticed it running quite a bit quicker as well and it seems to handle all of the user interface commands much more smoothly with transparency enabled. I love what I see so far!
 
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