So unsupported Mac becomes an argument. I had the same SSD with 16 Gb RAM model, but traded it away for a 16 2021 MBP, and after 9 years it barely was able to run games unless you like a space heater, and browser so slow to use it’s painful. Ventura is so fast comparatively on a M1 Mac its hard to think about that being adequate specially going towards the future. Whatever you buy will have Vantura.
I was just curious if the was same problem all along, vs something different now? Apple has a long history with Samba, SMB2/3 issues.Oh yeah, let's reboot the computer for every file copy.
Incredible. Did you change the battery ?
Depends on what software you use, I guess. Ventura has broken compatibility with so many audio plugins from across all developers, small and big, and some plugins still dont’t work. Yes, it’s up to developers to make sure that their plugins are updated according to Apple’s OS guidelines, but for those of you who may not be aware: Apple breaks plugin compatibility every single year with every new MacOS release, and developers have to catch up every year, probably because Apple constantly changes how plugins must be programmed/implemented.But Ventura has been particularly bad, and among music producers strong advise is to not upgrade to Ventura. Heck, you can’t even buy a new Mac and make it work with your existing studio plugins - for instance, plugins from Plugin Alliance are not yet compatible with Ventura.
There is no information concerning MacOS 14 changes/feature. Perhaps something will dribble out when some WWDC sessions are announced. Safari continues to show possible AV1 playback that MacOS provide in future, something that Netflix and YouTube could utilize.
Battery is original…it doesn’t last very long and does need to be replaced. That’s my next project along with OCLP to install Monterey or Ventura on the machine.
I fondly remember how window 10 users think they can just reboot when a critical update is being silently applied and their PC workstation is running slow. Both incidents made users non bootable, requiring a full windows install, to latest SP, and hours restoring applications, data.
I was left slack jawed early on with this Mac Studio. I am not exactly a nood with Apple, you can see in my list below all of the iOS stuff I have had over the years. 1st it was when I setup the Mac Studio. made the connections powered it up, and my iPhone had a popup that it had detected it, did I want to continue, I tapped it to continue and I watched in utter astonishment as the iPhone setup the Mac Studio. Next I was loading applications that I used on the PC on to the Studio. One of them was Google Earth. I was totally gobsmacked when I started the download and install. A popup notified me that Google had detected a Mac computer, that it was downloading and configuring Rosetta. It did that and finished loading Google Earth, I was stunned.I fondly remember how window 10 users think they can just reboot when a critical update is being silently applied and their PC workstation is running slow. Both incidents made users non bootable, requiring a full windows install, to latest SP, and hours restoring applications, data.
Apple updates clearly show what’s going on, and prevents user from that situation. A external ASR backup on external storage using Migration Assistant fully restores the MacOS computer to last backup state of operation.
Now against the MacOS 13.4 beta 1 it’s a breeze to do a full restore regarding how everything is working. Yes a DFU restore and ASR migration still takes a 1 to 4 hours but it is really boring in comparison.
iMac retina 47-inch Intel (late 2017). I meant that now it is faster and so far (albeit I installed it five days ago) have not experienced some issues that I had with Monterey, like kernel panics, dock not working (had to force quit it to work after booting sometimes), etc. As said, so far, so good. And System Settings has also its advantages in relation to System Preferences. One tip is to search for keywords, to quickly find what you are looking for.
