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Anyone running High Sierra?
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Seems a little snappier, and search is noticeably faster.
Facetime changes are the most irritating to be honest (changed ringsound and no maximize button on screen any more)
(2016 model)
Facetime changes are the most irritating to be honest (changed ringsound and no maximize button on screen any more)
(2016 model)
Courage - for some reason thinking the ability to take live photos of a facetime is more important than a maximize button on a mac!
I'm not having any issues on my Air. It's a bit faster, but not much. Go for it.
Anyone on a 4GB model?
I have an 11" the 2013 model.
It has been running Mavericks ever since.
After 5 years a clean install would do it good.
But the jury is still out on El Capitan or High Sierra.
Mavericks is lovely but becoming quite vintage and that air is mainly used for surfing and webdesign.
I have an 11" the 2013 model.
It has been running Mavericks ever since.
After 5 years a clean install would do it good.
But the jury is still out on El Capitan or High Sierra.
Mavericks is lovely but becoming quite vintage and that air is mainly used for surfing and webdesign.
Been on Sierra for the past year on my 2011 MBA 13" with no issues and will be upgrading to High Sierra this weekend. As I use it exclusively for work with Cisco apps, Office and CITRIX I wanted to make sure there were no first week glitches affecting anything.
Will let you know once I've upgraded
Will let you know once I've upgraded
Maybe check this first before upgrading with the 2011 Air
Intel HD3000 works bad with High Sierra, look here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-late-2011-owners-beware.2072699/
Intel HD3000 works bad with High Sierra, look here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-late-2011-owners-beware.2072699/
HD3000 is fine with High Sierra as long as you have 8GB of RAM.
My machines an HD4000 machine with 16GB and it runs great, a bit quicker than Sierra.
My machines an HD4000 machine with 16GB and it runs great, a bit quicker than Sierra.
That's possibly a problem then as my Air runs with only 4GB, no upgrade option was available at the time
Can play iOS recorded videos in Quicktime that used the new H.265 codec. Saves disk space. I didn't check the before and after sizes of my Mail folder though. I am sure I saved a ton of disk space. Tested the Duplicate command on a large folder and the snapshot feature works great.
no, intel hd 3000 has no problems at all with mail in High Sierra, i m just running it on a macbook air 2011.
speed is the same as Sierra and there are no problems (and no gains : no metal on intel hd 3000)
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don t worry, it s perfect on Macbook air with Intel hd 3000 and 4gb RAM
That's good news than 
I just put It there because someone had a problem with his/her air going to High Sierra.
I think my girlfriend has a 11" 1.3Ghz i5 with the HD5000 and 4GB ram.
She's away for the week but does most of our webdesign on that machine.
I asume High Sierra won't be a problem, still running mavericks and being very web active,
she needs to upgrade I guess for security ...
On my nMP It's alot faster then sierra was.
The boot time is twice as fast, and the weird "ati glitch" is gone I had on every Mac Pro with an Ati card,
with an nvidia card I never had that "glitch" during the boot.
I'm pretty happy about high sierra, could have been much worse
I don't know about my Air.
It's still on Yoshimite, because support for the pro tools interface we have was dropped in El Capitan.
I work in logic X but use the pro tools device for all the inputs and outputs.
I just put It there because someone had a problem with his/her air going to High Sierra.
I think my girlfriend has a 11" 1.3Ghz i5 with the HD5000 and 4GB ram.
She's away for the week but does most of our webdesign on that machine.
I asume High Sierra won't be a problem, still running mavericks and being very web active,
she needs to upgrade I guess for security ...
On my nMP It's alot faster then sierra was.
The boot time is twice as fast, and the weird "ati glitch" is gone I had on every Mac Pro with an Ati card,
with an nvidia card I never had that "glitch" during the boot.
I'm pretty happy about high sierra, could have been much worse
I don't know about my Air.
It's still on Yoshimite, because support for the pro tools interface we have was dropped in El Capitan.
I work in logic X but use the pro tools device for all the inputs and outputs.
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mine had a separate update for itunes after High Sierra Install.
but also the stock Itunes is newer than your version
HS is definitely running slower / choppier on my 2011 Air w 4GB. Noticeably worse than Sierra, but interestingly, the battery life seems to be slightly better.
Running it on a 2013 base-model 13" Air. Dual-booting with Windows 10. So basically I'm running it on an i5 with 4GB of RAM and 60GB of storage.
So far seems to work fine, but have only been using it for browsing and for MS Office. Battery life seems to be better than Sierra, FWIW.
So far seems to work fine, but have only been using it for browsing and for MS Office. Battery life seems to be better than Sierra, FWIW.
I upgraded a mid-2013 MBA (4 Gb, 128 ssd, i5) that was running the latest release of Sierra, office 2011, and NTFS for Mac v14.
After upgrading to High Sierra, it takes about 30 seconds to get to the log in screen instead of the 10 in Sierra. I tried the upgrade again but removed office 2011 and NTFS for Mac before upgrading but it didn't make a difference. Tried a clean install and same thing again: 25 to 30 seconds to get to the login screen.
Boot times did not get lower after numerous reboots either. Once booted, the machine seems no slower than Sierra.
After upgrading to High Sierra, it takes about 30 seconds to get to the log in screen instead of the 10 in Sierra. I tried the upgrade again but removed office 2011 and NTFS for Mac before upgrading but it didn't make a difference. Tried a clean install and same thing again: 25 to 30 seconds to get to the login screen.
Boot times did not get lower after numerous reboots either. Once booted, the machine seems no slower than Sierra.
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Perfectly fine on 2017 Air.
One thing that does not work for me though is the new split screen mode in mail when creating a new email.
On the low res screen of the Air the text gets so tiny and pixeled I can barely read what I write und in editing mode there is no way, at least that I know of, to enlarge the text without having to change the font size ...
So is installing iTunes after the High Sierra update optional or does it automatically install it afterwards? And if the update for iTunes is optional does it leave it as iTunes 12.6 or something else?