I'm not having any issues on my Air. It's a bit faster, Safari is running good. Better than in Sierra. Battery is working fine too.
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I'm not having any issues on my Air. It's a bit faster, Safari is running good. Better than in Sierra. Battery is working fine too.
Mid-2011, 4 / 128 here.
Overall, it seems fine - placebo effect might encourage me to believe its running faster overall. No idea on battery yet - mostly on AC since the update.
If there's a struggle, it seems to be with Microsoft Office 2016 - a bit of a lapse to get it running, but that beats the expected results of 2011, which MS has said won't work at all. Haven't tried all of the OS's default apps yet, either - so no idea what 'upgrades' cause more troubles than they solve.
But short of the Air going up in a little puff of smoke as I do my usual stuff, it seems my Air is good for another year.
(knock on wood)
Overall, it seems fine - placebo effect might encourage me to believe its running faster overall. No idea on battery yet - mostly on AC since the update.
If there's a struggle, it seems to be with Microsoft Office 2016 - a bit of a lapse to get it running, but that beats the expected results of 2011, which MS has said won't work at all. Haven't tried all of the OS's default apps yet, either - so no idea what 'upgrades' cause more troubles than they solve.
But short of the Air going up in a little puff of smoke as I do my usual stuff, it seems my Air is good for another year.
(knock on wood)
Well, that's good news! If peculiar. MS said not with High Sierra and the new file system. Huh.
Maybe just trying to push users to Office 365...?
some Adobe products (illustrator, indesign) could cause problems
not a personal experience, read it somewhere, probably here on MR
There is a thread on software compatibility in the High Sierra forum.
In my case Photoshop CS4 does not work properly. Photoshop CS6 works but has some really minor bugs. I'll stick it out with CS6 because I don't want to pay for a subscription. Office 2011 works mostly fine, but again there are some really minor bugs. More an annoyance than anything. eg. Upon first launch of Excel, if I try to close a spreadsheet using the red close button in the top left corner, nothing happens. I have to close using the menu. But then after that it all works fine. Luckily I have a licence for Office 2016, so I'm just using that now, but partially because I want the cloud support.
Interestingly, you can leave Office 2011 and 2016 on the same machine, no problems. Both will continue to work. I stuck with just one though on the laptops to save space.
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Regarding RAM:
I don't have an Air, but up until recently I had a 4 GB machine MacBook, an 8 GB MacBook Pro, and a 16 GB MacBook. For light usage, 16 GB provides no benefit over 8 GB, but while 4 GB is OK, 8 GB is noticeably smoother even for relatively light usage. IMO, you can easily get by with 4 GB with light to light-moderate usage, but 8 GB is preferred, while moderate to heavy usage really needs 8 GB or more.
But then again, I found the same to be true on even El Capitan, so YMMV.
I've since upgraded the 4 GB machine to 8 GB though, for the reasons mentioned, and because it was really, really cheap to do so. I lucked out and was able to get in on a very limited sale at Amazon.ca for 8 GB of name brand RAM for CAD$45/US$36. At that price it was a no-brainer. It's too bad we can't upgrade the memory of any of the newer Mac laptops ourselves.
In my case Photoshop CS4 does not work properly. Photoshop CS6 works but has some really minor bugs. I'll stick it out with CS6 because I don't want to pay for a subscription. Office 2011 works mostly fine, but again there are some really minor bugs. More an annoyance than anything. eg. Upon first launch of Excel, if I try to close a spreadsheet using the red close button in the top left corner, nothing happens. I have to close using the menu. But then after that it all works fine. Luckily I have a licence for Office 2016, so I'm just using that now, but partially because I want the cloud support.
Interestingly, you can leave Office 2011 and 2016 on the same machine, no problems. Both will continue to work. I stuck with just one though on the laptops to save space.
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Regarding RAM:
I don't have an Air, but up until recently I had a 4 GB machine MacBook, an 8 GB MacBook Pro, and a 16 GB MacBook. For light usage, 16 GB provides no benefit over 8 GB, but while 4 GB is OK, 8 GB is noticeably smoother even for relatively light usage. IMO, you can easily get by with 4 GB with light to light-moderate usage, but 8 GB is preferred, while moderate to heavy usage really needs 8 GB or more.
But then again, I found the same to be true on even El Capitan, so YMMV.
I've since upgraded the 4 GB machine to 8 GB though, for the reasons mentioned, and because it was really, really cheap to do so. I lucked out and was able to get in on a very limited sale at Amazon.ca for 8 GB of name brand RAM for CAD$45/US$36. At that price it was a no-brainer. It's too bad we can't upgrade the memory of any of the newer Mac laptops ourselves.
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Overall I feel like it seems a slight bit faster, other than it broke our WiFi and safari wouldn’t load until configure files were deleted and the laptop restarted.
Your link refers to MacBook Pro, not Air.
My 2011 11" 4GB 1.6 i5 HD 3000 runs just fine with High Sierra. I've updated with every new release since new—no regrets.
It was a worthy upgrade in my opinion.
I was intrigued by these 30 second delay because my 13" i5 late 2013 doesn't have this delay so I did a fresh install of High Sierra and it now takes about 10 seconds to get to the login screen.
no lag on login here either.
did upgrade not fresh.
but have done fresh install since the upgrade though.
did upgrade not fresh.
but have done fresh install since the upgrade though.