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Apple Releases macOS Monterey 12.5 With Safari and TV App Updates

theorist9 said:
Thanks--I recently switched from an older Mac using High Sierra, and the updates in that OS are done through the App Store.

How do notifications of new releases work in Monterey? Do you need to know that there's a new release and go looking for it? I would think there should be some sort of automatic notification. With the App Store (in HS) I would get that notification, but not until a week or so later (unless I manually activtated the update), making me think they stagger notifications to reduce server demand. But I don't know how it works in Monterey....
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I see notifications when I have auto updates enabled.
 
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i was using 12.4 before, not the beta, does that make any difference?
it was still quite sluggish at times, while at the moment it seems more on par with what i'm seeing with Safari on iOS devices
 
theorist9 said:
Thanks--I recently switched from an older Mac using High Sierra, and the updates in that OS are done through the App Store.

How do notifications of new releases work in Monterey? Do you need to know that there's a new release and go looking for it? I would think there should be some sort of automatic notification. With the App Store (in HS) I would get that notification, but not until a week or so later (unless I manually activtated the update), making me think they stagger notifications to reduce server demand. But I don't know how it works in Monterey....
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I've got mine set to automatically check, but not install. If I don't see a thread here, I'll typically get the OS notification within a few hours.
 
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blazerunner said:
So why do so many of you still praise Apple so much?
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It is still the better choice of the 2 other OS's that are currently *competing with macOS - Linux and especially Windows

*competing is the word I chose here, and I'm gonna stick to it :) Linux always looks great on screenshots and Windows always looks great with a Word document open - preferably in full screen. If not Word, then Excel.

;)
 
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Weird.

On our 2017 13" MacBook Air and 2015 13" MacBook Pro, they're happily updating to 12.5.
However, on my 2014 Mac mini, 12.5 appeared, and then disappeared saying 12.4 is the latest, even after a reboot.
For my 2017 iMac and 2017 MacBook, both also say 12.4 is the latest, even after a reboot.

This is after 6 pm Eastern Time, many hours after the 12.5 release.

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I guess I'll just have to wait a few more hours for these machines.

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Welp! Now it's working. I guess repeatedly mashing the update button has to work sometimes. ;)
 
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mdriftmeyer said:
Monterey Intel is considerably improved in memory management and CPU usage. Logic doing bouncing is far less memory consuming and bounce times are nearly cut in half.
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That's good to hear. I went back to Big Sur on my 2015 because it wasn't that snappy. My 2013 iMac was running 12.4 perfectly and its been fine on 12.5 for the 3 min I used it.
 
Hahaha i should have waited a few days...just updated my new M1 MBP 3 days ago with 12.4 :/
 
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I'm going to install it this evening.

I am actually quite happy with 12.4 as my two main problems seem to have been fixed in 12.4 or 12.4.1.

I read that there are performance improvements in 12.5 so looking forward to see what's faster.
 
Realityck said:
A worn out SSD seriously? Didn't know SSDs ever show wear. :p
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They can, if not engineered properly and / or if exposed to years of excessive writes. It was more of an issue in the early years of SSDs, and could still be an issue in extreme cases. Not likely to be an issue for 99.999+% of Apple portable users.
 
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Freeangel1 said:
Not me. I use both but honestly I think Windows 11 and the latest Android OS are the better product. For business Especially. Got to be able to replace a worn out SSD. Can't do that with any M1 or M2 Mac.
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There are reasons not to like the soldered-in SSD's--mainly that you have to guess how much you'll need at the time of purchase, which may require you over-buy, rather than being able to upgrade later if and when you need more space.

But wear shouldn't be one of them, at least not with Apple SSD's, which seem to be sufficiently over-provisioned. I used a 2014 MBP with a 1 TB SSD as my main computer for six years and, according to DriveDX, at the end of that time I had 112 TB writes, which averages 52 GB/day, 7 days/week. And even with that, my wear leveling count was 85%, and DriveDX's algorithm said my SSD Lifetime Left Indicator was 100%.
 
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