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How is MBP doing with Catalina?

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CaliforniaDreamin

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Oct 4, 2019
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I have an early-2015 MBP 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB.

I'm skeptical about putting Catalina on my 2012 Mini so far until the bugs get fixed. I also am mid-build with my cMP 5,1 and haven't put in a metal card yet. Hoping to give the MBP a look at Catalina if the reviews are positive with it running ok on these machines.
 
i put catalina on my early 2015 13" and it works great. They made a huge improvement which is asking for the administrator password when you install something on the app store. Previously you could install anything from the app store with any icloud account which was a huge security breach.
 
The only problem I have with Catalina is that Mail is buggy — otherwise it's an excellent experience with many welcome improvements.
 
leman said:
The only problem I have with Catalina is that Mail is buggy — otherwise it's an excellent experience with many welcome improvements.
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Yeah, waiting for them to fix that Mail bug. I read that people are losing emails, which is not good. Once they release a patch and it sticks, I’ll give it a try!
 
I see a lot of hate for Catalina, not totally sure why. I installed shortly after released on my 2019 mbp13, 1.4. Only issues I noticed was a long time to do airdrop between phone and Mac (fixed now), and my system got really slow one day (wonder if it was a memory leak, I didn't check, also hasn't happened again), otherwise it seems to be working great.
 
I had a terrible install/ data migration experience but it’s been fine once I worked that out.
 
I have a 15" 2015 with DGPU that experienced a lot of WindowServer related stutters and freezes in GPU accelerated apps (Slack, Chrome, Affinity) in Mojave. Apparently they fixed that issue in 10.15 Catalina because I haven't had a single hiccup since upgrading! Everything has been snappy and smooth so far.
 
I'm terrified of the loss of iTunes, as much as I dislike iTunes.

I've been using iTunes since 2004, well before there was an iTunes store, and well before album art was a thing.

This means that although now I buy all my music from iTunes, I have music ripped from CDs from ages ago, and album art sourced from google, etc. I also have edited song tags over the years to fit a consistency motif that works for me. What this means is my iTunes library is effectively perfect and all album art is present, but this library is sourced from many locations. I have continually throughout the years fought with iTunes to keep it perfect. Sometimes art goes missing, sometimes I sourced an album cover years ago and now bought a song from that album on iTunes to find inconsistency in artwork that had to be resolved, etc. It has been a struggle, but a manageable one.

When I move to Catalina, is fixing iTunes song tags and artwork going to be a multi day headache of an event to fix to get it the way I currently have it? I *love* how perfect my iTunes library is, and I'm extremely skeptical it's going to magically port over so perfectly without numerous headaches and data loss.
 
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I'm terrified of the loss of iTunes, as much as I dislike iTunes.

I've been using iTunes since 2004, well before there was an iTunes store, and well before album art was a thing.

This means that although now I buy all my music from iTunes, I have music ripped from CDs from ages ago, and album art sourced from google, etc. I also have edited song tags over the years to fit a consistency motif that works for me. What this means is my iTunes library is effectively perfect and all album art is present, but this library is sourced from many locations. I have continually throughout the years fought with iTunes to keep it perfect. Sometimes art goes missing, sometimes I sourced an album cover years ago and now bought a song from that album on iTunes to find inconsistency in artwork that had to be resolved, etc. It has been a struggle, but a manageable one.

When I move to Catalina, is fixing iTunes song tags and artwork going to be a multi day headache of an event to fix to get it the way I currently have it? I *love* how perfect my iTunes library is, and I'm extremely skeptical it's going to magically port over so perfectly without numerous headaches and data loss.
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Maybe wait and let some others find out first, before you do that with your perfectly arranged library. I can imagine how much work it was to get it that way!
 
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RyawesomeU13 said:
I see a lot of hate for Catalina, not totally sure why. I installed shortly after released on my 2019 mbp13, 1.4. Only issues I noticed was a long time to do airdrop between phone and Mac (fixed now), and my system got really slow one day (wonder if it was a memory leak, I didn't check, also hasn't happened again), otherwise it seems to be working great.
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If 83% of my apps were still running under Catalina I wouldn't hate it so much.

Apple: Our new OS will make your computer runs much faster!
Apple: *releases new OS that disables older apps that you love*
Apple: Told you so guys :-DDD
 
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