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tgilcas

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Original poster
Jun 20, 2016
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Hi everyone,
I still have my MacBook Pro 16,2 (13-inch, 2020, four Thunderbolt 3 ports) Intel Core i7-1068NG7 2.30GHz, 32GB RAM 3733 MHz LPDDR4. I had been updating to the latest macOS versions, but it reached a point where the laptop became extremely slow. Tahoe, in particular, was a really bad experience in terms of performance. So I decided to roll back to Ventura, and to my surprise, the speed improved a lot.

I wanted to hear what the community thinks:
Which macOS version is the best-optimized for Intel processors while still supporting most common apps? I’d really like to get the best performance out of this machine.

What are you all using?
 
Monterey rocks on my M1,
as that is still an operating system designed solely for a computer, not iPad like Ventura forwards.

I use Mojave on a MBP 2012, MBA2010 which is getting iffy using Safari but everything else works great
if that works on you 2020, if not Catalina- Monterey are still safe reliable OS an should drive on your MacBook Pro 16,2.
 
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