Some background…….I tried Yosemite and El Cap a couple of years ago and literally hated the experience, everything about it was wrong, so much so that I never even gave any consideration to Sierra. I went back very happily to my Mavericks installation and there I have stayed, until now.
I installed the Public Beta 6 last weekend on a separate partition on my MBP (see my sig). So far, all I have to say is what a great and pleasurable experience this has been. Everything for me has been rock solid, I have not had any crashes. I can see quite clearly that there are a huge amount of processes running in memory (as compared to Mavs), but the system is handling everything very well and usage has not gone past 5 GB. The interface is quick and responsive and Safari is performing very well.
I am still working on installing all of the software that I like to use. But, so far none of the major packages (Adobe CS6, MS-Office, Lightroom) have been an issue. Some of the minor apps have needed some searches for a workaround, or an alternative that does the same thing.
Of course this is early days testing for me, but so far I am liking what I see.
Obviously everyone’s needs are different when it comes to the use of their own Mac. But, I entered into this expecting the worst and instead I have been very pleasantly surprised, so much so that I felt I needed to post this.
By the way, I got a notice to install the next update this week to Public Beta 7 and instead it installed Developer Beta 8, not quite sure why. Everything is still really solid.
I installed the Public Beta 6 last weekend on a separate partition on my MBP (see my sig). So far, all I have to say is what a great and pleasurable experience this has been. Everything for me has been rock solid, I have not had any crashes. I can see quite clearly that there are a huge amount of processes running in memory (as compared to Mavs), but the system is handling everything very well and usage has not gone past 5 GB. The interface is quick and responsive and Safari is performing very well.
I am still working on installing all of the software that I like to use. But, so far none of the major packages (Adobe CS6, MS-Office, Lightroom) have been an issue. Some of the minor apps have needed some searches for a workaround, or an alternative that does the same thing.
Of course this is early days testing for me, but so far I am liking what I see.
Obviously everyone’s needs are different when it comes to the use of their own Mac. But, I entered into this expecting the worst and instead I have been very pleasantly surprised, so much so that I felt I needed to post this.
By the way, I got a notice to install the next update this week to Public Beta 7 and instead it installed Developer Beta 8, not quite sure why. Everything is still really solid.
