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Is Mojave worth bothering with on a stable Mac Pro 5,1???

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scottjua

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May 23, 2011
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I’m about to do some hardware upgrades and move to a dual CPU from single in my 2010 5,1, add RAM, and add an RX580 and 4K monitor to replace my 30” Cinema Display.... but I’m stuck on whether it’s really worth it to go through the extra effort to move to Mojave.

Anyone do this move and regret it? Is it stable enough to warrant a move And potential hassles?

Right now everything I need is working on High Sierra, and I really don’t want the headache to have an unstableOs to deal with, or Apps not working, etc.

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I'm personally staying at High Sierra as long as I can without updating my dual quadro 4000 setup. Unless you want to get a dark background screen and some bells and whistles, I really don't see the need since Apple is still supporting High Sierra. For my type of photography work I have fine with what I have using Capture One 20. Besides Mojave is the last OSX available for 5,1 without going to a whole new computer.
 
My Mac Pro 5,1 was rock solid under HFS+ with the Geforce 980 and the webdriver. I went to Mojave with the Radeon RX Pulse Sapphire 580 and after some months it was stable too. But I have to admit that sometimes I have a total grey screen after booting with High Sierra and one kernel panic a month under Mojave. However I can live with that.
 
I would say yes, Mojave IS worth bothering with. I find it more responsive than HS was (APFS was brand new then, in Mojave it seems more refined). Improved (metal) graphics (I have RX580 8GB) and I don't think I could ever go back from Dark Mode now. After using DM since upgrading to Mojave back in Jan, my friends Mac running on Sierra just seems * so * bright! The ONLY thing I do miss is Back to My Mac - I could have done with helping my parents remotely during the lockdown, but that was dropped in Mojave - if you use/need BTMM then keep a HS partition.
 
Clone your High Sierra boot drive to an external SSD using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, upgrade the latter to Mojave and try it yourself.

For what it's worth, High Sierra will stop receiving macOS security updates when 10.16 is released this fall.
 
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