Macbook 13" Early 2015: should I upgrade Mojave to Monterey?

[camilaacolide]

Hello!

I have a Macbook 13" Early 2015 (16GB RAM) and originally it had macOS Sierra, which ran beautifully. During Catalina days, I decided to upgrade to Mojave, the last macOS with 32-bit app support, but I always felt that Mojave ran way, way more sluggish than Sierra, even after a clean install.

Since Monterey is the lastest macOS officially supported for this computer, I was considering upgrading to it (also via clean install) now that it's already 12.6.1. But I after being unsatisfied with Mojave performance for months now, I want to know some opinions first. Should I upgrade?

 

[Fishrrman]

I have Mojave on a 2018 Mini and Monterey on a 2021 MBP 14".
Both are fine on their respective computers.

I'm not sure if Monterey will be "faster", however (on an older MBP).
The only way to find out is to... try it.

 

[rm5]

Try it out on a second partition and see how you like it. Then if you want, you can do the real upgrade if you feel it is stable and fast enough.

I've got Monterey running on a cMP 5,1 and it works like a charm, so I'm sure your 2015 will be more than good enough!

 

[Dirty Mac]

Running it on a early 2015 macbook air with 4gig ram and it's just fine.

 

[jshannon01]

I have a similar issue on my MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5, currently running El Capitan (10.11.6). Some websites (to pay some bills, etc) no longer work on firefox ; ). I have no idea what to upgrade to, but may try the partition thing.