Caalina or Mojave performance on Macbook 12 2017

[nph]

I have a Macbook 12 2017 which I absolutely love. Bought it this spring and gave my MBP 15 to my son.
Currently running Mojave and it is working fine as long as I don't have tons of Safari windows open, then battery drains a bit.
Considering Catalina now that third release is out. Anybody taken Catalina yet and can say how performance is on Macbook?
I have great battery life and actually reach the 10 hours promised by Apple so I don't want to jeopardize that or get less performance.

Any feedback on Catalina so far?

Thanks

 

[mj_]

I've had it running on my 2017 base model MacBook (m3/8GB/256GB) since about a week or so after initial release and have not run into any issues yet. Battery life is as great as it was, and so is performance. I cannot tell a difference.

That said I was running High Sierra before because I've had massive issues with Mojave on my iMac and decided to skip that release entirely.

 

[DNAppleGold]

2017 Mb Base model but for 16g of ram. No issues on Catalina. If anything it feels snappier but this could be subjective.

 

[MarkAtl]

2017 i7 16GB - no noticeable change.

 

[nph]

What about battery life, same? Currently I get ~10h which is the best after my old MacBook Air.

 

[MarkAtl]

What about battery life, same? Currently I get ~10h which is the best after my old MacBook Air.

No noticeable difference to me.

 

[DNAppleGold]

2017 MBr i3 16g. Completely subjective but Mojave’s feels snappier with fewer spinning balls.

 

[FilmIndustryGuy]

check your read and write speeds. if they aren't around 1300 I'd to a clean wipe and install of Catalina. This made it snappier for me. Also I prefer Catalina due to dark mode.

 

[faraine]

2015 MBr i5 8GB. Haven't noticed any difference...