WARNING: Do not upgrade to Mojave if you have any non-retina screens!

[dogslobber]

Been using Mojave on my MBA for the last 6 months without issue. I think any concern is overblown.

 

[nordique]

On the plus side, I've noticed Mojave is noticeably smoother and faster on my mid 2012 MBP

Apparently the sub pixel anti-aliasing was taxing for the GPU's

Who doesn't have a retina Mac at this point? Everyone must, and if you don't really you must upgrade now. There's no excuse.

Who doesn't have one?? Do you have any idea how popular the MacBook Air has been? More MacBook Air's are out there in the wild than the retina MacBook line up. No one "must" have a retina MacBook.

Besides, some people prefer the battery life of the Airs...no retina Apple laptop to date has matched the Air battery life.

 

[Khaleal]

Does this apply to 27" Late 2013 iMacs?

 

[212rikanmofo]

Does this apply to 27" Late 2013 iMacs?

Not sure, but that's what I have. I wanna know also.

 

[alien3dx]

Does this apply to 27" Late 2013 iMacs?

21' 2017 base line me don't have either retina thingy.. My External monitor also 1920 x 1280 which don't have retina thingy.

 

[AeroZ]

Yeah, the fonts together with dark mode look pretty bad. Downgraded for now.

OT: When you boot your Mac does the screen go black for 1-2 seconds when approximately half way through the Apple logo progress bar?

 

[Khaleal]

21' 2017 base line me don't have either retina thingy.. My External monitor also 1920 x 1280 which don't have retina thingy.

Your 2017 iMac has a Retina display. Every iMac since 2014 has Retina.

 

[Chancha]

Your 2017 iMac has a Retina display. Every iMac since 2014 has Retina.

There is still a bottomline non-4K 21.5" iMac for sale, up to now (2017 model)
And then the MBA despite likely being replaced next month, is also non-retina.

Regardless, this is moot because external screens doesn't need to be HiDPI, including expensive professional ones. Look at those Eizo ColorEdge that costs more than an iMac Pro, some are still 2K or even FHD.

 

[jerwin]

Your 2017 iMac has a Retina display. Every iMac since 2014 has Retina.

Not if your budget is unforgiving.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-2.3-21-inch-aluminum-mid-2017-specs.html



The basemodel macbook air looks to be slightly cheaper.

 

[alien3dx]

Your 2017 iMac has a Retina display. Every iMac since 2014 has Retina.

base line don't have .You may check at apple website for verification.I don't have ati graphic card also.

 

[martin2345uk]

Who doesn't have a retina Mac at this point? Everyone must, and if you don't really you must upgrade now. There's no excuse.

I love my Air and have no reason to upgrade it currently - it’s still fast, battery lasts hours, it’s light... you do come out with some utter tripe sometimes

 

[Toutou]

Don't see any difference on my external display.

 

[OllyW]

Who doesn't have a retina Mac at this point? Everyone must, and if you don't really you must upgrade now. There's no excuse.

Have a word with your favourite company.

 

[DeadeyeM]

Yeah I noticed it on my non-Retina, don't really care all that much to be honest.

Here's an excuse: I need a Pro laptop that's actually a Pro laptop, not some glued together POS I can't even run twin HDD's in

So when you are saying you need a Pro laptop you don't mean Mac do you?

 

[ledzep1]

Notice no difference on my late 2013 iMac.

 

[jerwin]

In the General Control Panel, is

"use font smoothing when available" checked or unchecked?

 

[leman]

I'm using 10.14.1 on my Late 2013 iMac non-retina. Why did Apple remove subpixel anti-aliasing? Why didn't they just leave it alone and include it as an option for those with non-retina screens. Makes no sense at all.

Because subpixel antialiasing is an ugly (albeit smart) hack that is expensive to implement, doesn’t play well with compositing window managers and is completely unnecessary in the age of HiDPI monitors.

 

[ledzep1]

In the General Control Panel, is

"use font smoothing when available" checked or unchecked?

On my 2013 iMac its enabled.

 

[auxbuss]

On the plus side, I've noticed Mojave is noticeably smoother and faster on my mid 2012 MBP

Apparently the sub pixel anti-aliasing was taxing for the GPU's

My late 2013 with dedicated GPU is running a lot cooler.

 

[purgatori_sakkara]

Not noticing a difference on my definitely-non-Retina external display.

 

[bobbie424242]

It's been years now that macOS font rendering has been **** on non-HiDpi displays, subpixel rendering or not. Apple does not give any other choice than to use a HiDpi display for proper font rendering. To be honest, the situation is not much better on Windows 10 (although it still has subpixel rendering). So throw away all your 1080p or 1200p dispays and use 4K screens...

 

[keysofanxiety]

Who doesn't have a retina Mac at this point? Everyone must, and if you don't really you must upgrade now. There's no excuse.

Trust me, I’d love a 2018 15” i9 with 1TB SSD and 32GB RAM to replace my current 15” 2012, which is beginning to struggle on LPX and is pretty much unusable for smooth playback on FCPX with multiple layers.

I really would love one to use for the next 6 years. It’d make my workflow a lot smoother. Unfortunately I don’t have £4500 to sink on a goddamn laptop. My one was £1250 when I first bought it directly from Apple, which included free AppleCare at the time, plus add maybe £400 for the upgrades during its life. That’s still far less than half of what I’d need to pay now.

I can justify £2000 on a futureproofed laptop. I can’t justify or afford £4500. It’s such a colossal jump.

 

[F1Mac]

Anyone wondered if dumastudetto maybe was being sarcastic?

 

[keysofanxiety]

Anyone wondered if dumastudetto maybe was being sarcastic?

If it’s missing the /s or “” to indicate that, it’s fair game.

 

[OllyW]

Anyone wondered if dumastudetto maybe was being sarcastic?

I hope he is but I'm not so sure.