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Robertjan88

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Planning to jump from OSX 10.14.6 to 10.15 soon.
Nevertheless, I was wondering what this update will do in terms of performance.
Using a 13 inch MacBook Pro 2018 edition (default config with 8GB DDR).
Will I see any increase or a decrease?

Thanks!
 
seriously...read a few posts to see what is Catalina all about, performance aside, its riddled with so many bugs people cant be serious installing it on their main machine
 
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Well, my 2013 15" MacBook Pro Retina seems to be faster and smoother with Catalina -- very pleased with it.
 
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I also experienced some bugs in Catalina (but luckily no severe bugs that can't be solved) but regarding performance I feel like it's slightly improved compared to Mojave.
 
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Planning to jump from OSX 10.14.6 to 10.15 soon.
Nevertheless, I was wondering what this update will do in terms of performance.
Using a 13 inch MacBook Pro 2018 edition (default config with 8GB DDR).
Will I see any increase or a decrease?

Thanks!

Mojave at this moment is a very solid operating system. The only reason I decided to move and install Catalina is for SwiftUI... that's it, just for that. After all this days testing Catalina I don't regret. It's fast and smooth as Mojave, the Music App has some minor problems but they will fix it.
 
Few months? To fix crucial bugs? Should be days in my opinion..like recent hotfixes for iOS. :(

What I do to avoid many of the problems that user complain is to do a full clean install from scratch. I'm running Catalina without problems. Black mode is nice....
 
What I do to avoid many of the problems that user complain is to do a full clean install from scratch. I'm running Catalina without problems. Black mode is nice....
Ah yes, I tend to do the same. After a clean install (from a USB), I also wipe the SMC and RAM settings etc. Better safe than sorry.
 
Ah yes, I tend to do the same. After a clean install (from a USB), I also wipe the SMC and RAM settings etc. Better safe than sorry.

Then you know the routing , I do the same with my iPhone. The only problem at this moment is for users that depend on 32 bit applications, if you are in that group then stay with Mojave.
 
In my experience the UI is much smoother, but general performance seems the same. I'd wait to upgrade until the .1 or even .2 release for sure, a bit buggy still.
 
UI and text input is smoother. Overall quite happy with it.
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