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macOS 10.14 Mojave - how is the performance on your computer?

metalsquid said:
Nice to hear that Mojave feels a bit smoother than High Sierra. I'm getting bits of lag and dropped frames in High Sierra on a 15" retina 2012. Things like switching Safari tabs or Spaces, there's a noticeable delay or jerkiness to the animations. Are other retina 2012 15" users experiencing this on High Sierra as well, or just me? I've just gotten this machine so I haven't grown with it. I've been using a 2016 15" which is buttery smooth so the difference is very noticeable. Both machines are on 10.13.5. I used Migration Assistant from the 2016 to the 2012 so maybe that brought over something the 2012 doesn't like? Is it worth restoring the 2012 and setting it all up manually or is the jerkiness just par for the course on that machine and I should just live with it until Mojave is out?
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I had to downgrade from HS to Sierra after a few days with HS experiencing some UI lags, it was very frustrating to wait a second for comon task you do a lot of times a day. Downgrading was a pain and corrupted some modified dates of folders but it was super worth.
I'm afraid of upgrading now my rMBP 2012 to any OS beyond Sierra.

by the way, I used a cleqn instalation with manual install of apps, so dont blame the migration process ;)
 
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15" 2012 non-Retina with HDD
There were some rough issues, crashes and lags, but now with PB2 it seems to work fine, if not better than High Sierra.

Opened apps are Firefox Developer Edition ~15 tabs and IntelliJ Idea

 
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cocoua said:
I had to downgrade from HS to Sierra after a few days with HS experiencing some UI lags, it was very frustrating to wait a second for comon task you do a lot of times a day. Downgrading was a pain and corrupted some modified dates of folders but it was super worth.
I'm afraid of upgrading now my rMBP 2012 to any OS beyond Sierra.

by the way, I used a cleqn instalation with manual install of apps, so dont blame the migration process ;)
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The lag on the UI is really irritating. Started at High Sierra and it's worse on Mojave DP3.

Sierra flies on rMBP early 2013.
 
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tsialex said:
The lag on the UI is really irritating. Started at High Sierra and it's worse on Mojave DP3.

Sierra flies on rMBP early 2013.
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hi, I apreciate your comment, as some people doesn't really care about the lag and for they HS run smooth or even better, I could witnessed that with a fella who is running HS happily even you can tell his rMBP 2012 is suffering the lag.

so I dont trust 2012 rMBP owners who says HS run smooth on their machines, and npw I'm mot going to trust them saying Mojave run smooth either
 
cocoua said:
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hi, I apreciate your comment, as some people doesn't really care about the lag and for they HS run smooth or even better, I could witnessed that with a fella who is running HS happily even you can tell his rMBP 2012 is suffering the lag.

so I dont trust 2012 rMBP owners who says HS run smooth on their machines, and npw I'm mot going to trust them saying Mojave run smooth either
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Yep, I get a little angry every time Safari download window rolls so slowly back to place. It's the little things.

A lot people don't even notice this type of thing.
 
I am using a 2013 MacBook Air 13" with 4 GB ram. I am now on the 5th developer beta. Up until know Mojave have been a little unresponsive and sluggish. But after the update this morning it feels much snappier and faster. Now it hasn't run more than a few hours, but so far it also seems it uses a little less of my tiny amount of ram.
 
Lunder89 said:
I am using a 2013 MacBook Air 13" with 4 GB ram. I am now on the 5th developer beta. Up until know Mojave have been a little unresponsive and sluggish. But after the update this morning it feels much snappier and faster. Now it hasn't run more than a few hours, but so far it also seems it uses a little less of my tiny amount of ram.
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This is the exact computer I have, and it's been really slowing down for me on High Sierra... I really hope Mojave improves it.
 
I have to admit, I have only ever owned the MacBook Air on High Sierra, so I don't really have a comparison. But for a Mac with only 4 gigs of ram, it feels pretty good in Mojave right now.
 
Hey Guys!
I have a late 2013 MBP 15" with the Integrated Intel Graphics Card + NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
16GB Ram, 512 SSD, and all I can say is: IT RUNS SMOOTH LIKE BUTTER with Macosx Mojave (10.14 Beta (18A384a))

After upgrading from Sierra to High Sierra I had a million Problems with my Graphic Card, Performance, Overheating, etc (well known problem with the NVidia Cards) - I had to switch off automatic graphics switching and always leave on the Nvidia Card.

But I've been using Mojave for a couple of days now and it runs very very smoothly.
Normally I have 5+ Design Programs open simultaneously / Chrome with a lot of screens, Slack, etc.
No overheating, no lag, no problems!

This is a breeze for me as I work with heavy duty programs and the Sierra Lag was killing me. ;)
Hope it helps!

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Running a 2014 mini with 2.6 i5 and 8gb ram. Works fine. A little slow upon first boot up but 5 minutes later was fine. No beachballs much. Hardly unless doing a lot at once. But right now safari open with 3 tabs and nothing else. Still fine. Mail was open along side I just noticed and no slowdown. So good for light work. Nothing heavy. Games or photoshop or videoshop (time to start inventing) might slow things down but so far not bad.
 
Yesterday night I upgraded my 15-inch Mid 2015 MBP from High Sierra to Mojave beta 11 (the supposed GM) and it seems to run fine overall. I have it hooked up to a Dell 4K screen and the only thing I noticed is occasional FPS drops when opening and closing Mission Control, this was never the case on High Sierra. If it happens opening and closing Mission Control a few times will make it smooth again (full 60FPS basically). It does not seem to be happening without my 4K monitor being connected. Is this happening to anyone else?
 
BUTTER smooth on my iMac (Late 2015) 1TB SSD 32GB RAM, running 10.14 (18A389) - fresh install. I usually don't update till x.1 or .2, but it was running just so well on my Virtual Machine that I couldn't resist.

Now to install all my apps all over again.

PS: Used to run 10.12.6 on this machine before the re-install.
 
Running flawlessly on a 2012 Mac Mini, currently installed Beta 11. Did an upgrade from latest release of HS. I was amazed at how fast it booted from it being completely off.
 
baas said:
Do you have an SSD or mechanical hard drive?
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Sorry I missed that. Its regular old HDD with spinning platters. It does not say SSD anywhere in system information or about this mac and storage tab. Just says 1TB data disk. But its plenty fast for me. Web and basic tasks. I don't use photos or anything heavy. And no games for me.
 
joelovesapple said:
Running the best it has run since I can remember. I highly recommend Mojave. It's the magic ticket to our Macs as far as I am concerned!
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So it will be just like iOS 12 has been for iPhones and iPads. I can't wait til tomorrow afternoon! I just did my final Time Machine backup before upgrading. I won't bother with clean install since my machine is already fast on 10.13.6. It takes longer to boot than it did on 10.12.6 but I believe this was due to the Meltdown/Spectre patches unfortunately.
 
I am SO over High Sierra. I didn't intend to install Mojito until .4 or so, but HS remains buggy on what is probably its final release. Don't care about the dark mode, give me a system that won't cause complete reinstall because of "supplemental update 2" locking me out of my own account because of wrong password, iCloud attempt to reset telling me "unknown error has occurred", inability to use Disk Utility because of FileVault refusing to accept my password... By now I'm counting hours.
 
moabal said:
Performance is fine. However, I cannot open any of the new apps (News, Stocks, Memos) and I get a UIKit error. Not sure if anyone is having the same issue?
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The News app only works from specific countries (US, Canada...) as far as I know. Might be the same for Stocks however not so sure about Memos – I don't see why Voice Memos should be available only from specific locations.
 
stooovie said:
GUI is much less smooth on my 2015 13" rMBP. But it was the same way with HS and even Sierra betas, they did bring the perfomance to a good level in the end.
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nathansz said:
runs very smooth on 2012 non-retina MacBook Pro with 27" iMac as target display
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Wow! I'm impressed. Any idea if this could work on a 2010 MBP? I didn't think the 2012s were so different, but maybe the graphics card is the critical piece. (The 2010s used NVIDIA GPUs.)
 
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Wow! I'm impressed. Any idea if this could work on a 2010 MBP? I didn't think the 2012s were so different, but maybe the graphics card is the critical piece. (The 2010s used NVIDIA GPUs.)
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Graphic card has to support Metal. 2010 doesn't...neither does my 2011 MBP. It's a shame because my laptop looks brand new and has been pretty fast ever since I installed an SSD a few years ago.
 
chucker23n1 said:
I wonder if someone can vouch for VMware being faster on 10.14?
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It is. Especially if you have a Mac with NVMe SSD and a Windows-guest VM that can utilize Fusion's new NVMe disk mode. There's a thread around here about implementing that (I have several posts on it, see that thread's #113). Your VM's Windows 10 must be up to date and must be running UEFI firmware; I described the process in that thread. Not too arduous, and the VM is indeed snappier and kinder to the SSD.
 
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Wow! I'm impressed. Any idea if this could work on a 2010 MBP? I didn't think the 2012s were so different, but maybe the graphics card is the critical piece. (The 2010s used NVIDIA GPUs.)
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Running on my 2010 MBP 15". works good with the latest. Youll need to use the dosdude patcher though
 
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