Good time to update 2020 m1 Air to Monterey from Big Sur 11.6?

[thadoggfather]

I wait a while for upgrades, especially for the laptop

is now a good time to dive in since the dust has settled on Monterey a bit, or are people still wanting their BS back on their machine?

 

[TriciaMacMillan]

I’ve had a hard time with my MacBook Pro M1 before the Monterey 12.2 update came. It’s now stable enough, but I still experience occasional bugs in Mail and Spotlight searches, and there are also still memory leaks. Because of these issues, I reboot my MacBook once a week - something that I have never done with my Mac’s in the many years before. Besides that, it works well.

With my 2021 MacBook Pro of 2021, I don’t have a choice. But if I had, I’d see no reason to upgrade from Big Sur yet.

 

[yitwail]

I'd at least wait for Monterey 12.3, which should be released very soon, before updating.

 

[rm5]

I'm running 12.2.1 on my M1 MacBook Air, and it runs perfectly fine. The upgrade from Big Sur to Monterey 12.0.1 (I upgraded the day it was released) only took 15 minutes.

 

[TriciaMacMillan]

I’ve just had it again: all of a sudden my Mac starts behaving strangely. Remote Desktop would hang, the Dock wouldn’t show up on occasions, Mail had allocated 14 GB RAM, with total app RAM usage at 29 GB ( I have a 32 GB RAM Mac). I’m not rendering movies or things like that. Running Eclipse, Mail, browsers, some more smaller apps. Before that, my Mac seemed to work for about a week, being used every day for around 8-10 hours.

I rebooted, and everything was back to normal.

 

[rm5]

I’ve just had it again: all of a sudden my Mac starts behaving strangely. Remote Desktop would hang, the Dock wouldn’t show up on occasions, Mail had allocated 14 GB RAM, with total app RAM usage at 29 GB ( I have a 32 GB RAM Mac). I’m not rendering movies or things like that. Running Eclipse, Mail, browsers, some more smaller apps. Before that, my Mac seemed to work for about a week, being used every day for around 8-10 hours.

I rebooted, and everything was back to normal.

Is this in Big Sur or Monterey? I know Monterey had problems with "memory leaks" in certain applications.

 

[TriciaMacMillan]

Yes, this is about Monterey. Version 12.2.1 currently.

See also my post in #2.

 

[rm5]

I am not experiencing any of these issues, and I am on the same version, so I have no idea. Maybe it's machine-specific

 

[TriciaMacMillan]

My son has the same MacBook, only with 16 GB RAM, and he doesn’t seem to have any such problems. So yes, it’s really strange. But then, he’s also using it for other purposes (mainly music editing stuff).

 

[ivnj]

Monterey is nice. The FaceTime has links now which it never did before. And so many other nice features. Thinly thing I an't get to work is my Amazon Luna Controller. Only works in Big Sur. Everything else is good about Monterey. And its just the luna. My madcatz ctrl works fine both wired and bluetooth wirelessly. Otherwise Monterey is a good system. Have not noticed any other issues. Except I read an article saying Monterey bricked some older MacBooks when installed.