Enjoying again macOS, with High Sierra

[robertosh]

The other day I got the opportunity to grab some old hardware for the office work and gave it a try with an 2011 mid 27" iMac, with not too much expectations to be honest. In fact, it's only possible to install up High Sierra on it. But, oh my god!, I really missed that old macOS feeling. That looks like a serious operating system, not like a the cartoonish style of recent versions. Even if that is a very old hardware (core i5, 16G, no ssd) it's working like a charm, fast, stable, way better than my 2019 Air on BS.

Anyone had this feeling going back to an older macOS release?

 

[usagora]

The other day I got the opportunity to grab some old hardware for the office work and gave it a try with an 2011 mid 27" iMac, with not too much expectations to be honest. In fact, it's only possible to install up High Sierra on it. But, oh my god!, I really missed that old macOS feeling. That looks like a serious operating system, not like a the cartoonish style of recent versions. Even if that is a very old hardware (core i5, 16G, no ssd) it's working like a charm, fast, stable, way better than my 2019 Air on BS.

Anyone had this feeling going back to an older macOS release?

Glad you're happy, but I've never understood this disparaging of Big Sur (and beyond). I don't feel like I'm not using a "real" operating system. I'm doing everything I did before and more with previous macOS versions. Maybe you're getting a little carried away with nostalgia? LOL! To me, it's all good.

 

[Jupiter9]

I never updated in the first place. High Sierra is the last really solid macOS that has everything you need for work and nothing more.

 

[Hombre53]

The other day I got the opportunity to grab some old hardware for the office work and gave it a try with an 2011 mid 27" iMac, with not too much expectations to be honest. In fact, it's only possible to install up High Sierra on it. But, oh my god!, I really missed that old macOS feeling. That looks like a serious operating system, not like a the cartoonish style of recent versions. Even if that is a very old hardware (core i5, 16G, no ssd) it's working like a charm, fast, stable, way better than my 2019 Air on BS.

Anyone had this feeling going back to an older macOS release?

I have a retired iMac that I restored back to Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.8) the other day, just for old times sake. What a step back into time that was. That was one hellva good OS, probably the best Apple ever made.

 

[elptdbi3lYI]

If I recall High Sierra was the last one before macOS team was disbanded? Mojave was the first one that had catalyst apps even though it was through private APIs at the time.

 

[Jack Neill]

The other day I got the opportunity to grab some old hardware for the office work and gave it a try with an 2011 mid 27" iMac, with not too much expectations to be honest. In fact, it's only possible to install up High Sierra on it. But, oh my god!, I really missed that old macOS feeling. That looks like a serious operating system, not like a the cartoonish style of recent versions. Even if that is a very old hardware (core i5, 16G, no ssd) it's working like a charm, fast, stable, way better than my 2019 Air on BS.

Anyone had this feeling going back to an older macOS release?

I love this feeling, I travel though time with my collection of 13 Macs that date from 2004 to 2020. I have OS installs from 10.2 to 10.5 on PPC and 10.4 to 11.6 on Intel/M1. I love revisiting the older OS's and keep a library of photos and music on several of them. I am really partial to my WhiteBooks, MBP 9,2 and iMac 12,2. My fave OS X's by far are 10.4, 10.9, and 10.14.

BTW you can run 10.15.7 or 11.6 on that iMac with OCLP but I would recommend 10.15 and flash storage.