2012 MB Air UPDATE?

[nightlong]

A family member has a late 2012 MacBook Air and wants to know how far to upgrade the operating system.

She doesn’t want it to slow down and become laggy. Would appreciate feedback from those who have updated this model, on the ideal operating system for it.

 

[Audit13]

No problems running high Sierra on a 2010 Macbook pro so the air should not be problem.

 

[nightlong]

No problems running high Sierra on a 2010 Macbook pro so the air should not be problem.

Thanks!

 

[ftaok]

MacBooks, like all Macs, can roll back the OS, unlike iOS devices. Just make a back up before upgrading. That way, should an upgrade make her MacBook slow or unusable, just restore from the back up to the previous version.

It's tedious, but at least it's an option.

 

[pika2000]

Sold my 2012 Macbook Air 13" to a friend, and now she's using it with High Sierra. Seems to be running fine, but there are UI transitions that are not as smooth as I would think when I used it on older OSes. Other than that and the batter (it's pre-Haswell afterall), seems to work just like it should.

 

[oldtime]

My 2012 is definitely more sluggish after each of the Sierra updates. Before that each OS update was a performance improvement.

 

[DocMultimedia]

I'm sticking with 10.12 on my 2012 Air. Don't want to push it to 10.13. But just my opinion.

 

[Mike MA]

No problems running high Sierra on a 2010 Macbook pro so the air should not be problem.

I can confirm as operating exactly this. One should be aware though that the next OS will not be supported anymore.

 

[Slimmyhendrix]

I’ve been running high Sierra for 5 days now on my mid 13 air 1.3ghz 4gb ram. I definitely see everything is slower mainly boot up and opening applications or safari.

 

[mvtm]

I had a 2012 11” Base MBA and it was running High Sierra. She died by SSD failure but was super fast.

I used programs as the whole Adobe Suite and it was fine. My MBA had 2100 battery cycles!!!

I think i pushed harder my MBA 2012 more than anyone in the forums. Never hesitated to update and always upgraded to the latest version. Always have found my MBA snappy. but that is just me.

She had a 64GB Toshiba drive that failed. I then changed to a OWC Aura Pro 128GB , that died after 3 years. Now i bought her a Samsung 850 EVO 256GB to revive.

Will report back how my MBA performs. I’m keeping orginal battery still, want to know how long she goes.