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

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Works like a charm. Updated to Mojave 4 days ago.
 
Performance is very good on my late 2012 Mac Mini, especially considering the fact that it's one of the last Mac models to support Mojave. Super happy!
 
Any experience running GM Mojave on 2012 retina Macbook 15”?
I mean, compares to Sierra, as I expect it at least same as HS which has some subtle UI lags which made it annoying in a day to day use...
 
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2017 iMac, Retina 5K, 3.4 GHz, 16GB Memory, 500GB SSD,
Mojave running as smooth as High Sierra was.
Only difference seems to be a 3 to 5 second increase time in wake from sleep.
 
For some reason everything is faster and fixed a few issues I had in High Sierra. Not complaints at all!
 
g35 said:
Maybe we can have one thread people can just search instead of multiple ones. For lag, smoothness, etc on supported Macs. I hope this will encourage people to post freely. Anyone know how it is on 2012 retina MacBook Pro?
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Mojave works awesome on my Macbook Air 2017 & Mac Mini (Late 2014)


I only upgraded because of "Dark Mode" .... It's a weakness.
 
2018 13" i7/16 GB: Upgrade from a complex High Sierra developer setup to Mojave was painless. Runs great, silky smooth animations, snappier than HS for sure.
 
45 minute install (after download which was the full installer). Smooth install from Sierra (skipped HS). Got no issues when logged in. Only a very short blank screen on reboot. Quick reboot on a late 2013 Macbook Pro. I like it so far.
 
2015 MBP w/Retina, 8 gigs RAM, SSD. I'm one of those folks whos Mojave install brought the machine to a complete crawl. Extremely unresponsive. And wifi hardware not detected.

I had to restore High Sierra. But...the photo library got effed up. I don't understand how, but...after I restored my High Sierra backup, I haven't been able to open up Photos because it's telling me my photo library was created with a newer version of Photos and I need to upgrade before it will open it. This is from the High Sierra backup I did immediately before installing Mojave, so I don't know what went on there.

Interestingly, on the Apple forums a lot of people are having this exact issue with various models, and more than one person said to allow about nine hours for your partition to erase and restore. Took mine only two! Most folks say that Little Snitch is the culprit...except I never had Little Snitch. Ever.
 
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I did a fresh install on my 2016 MacBook Pro and Mojave still feels slower than High Sierra. Boot times are especially longer compared to my 2015 MacBook Pro. Also, the touchbar emoji picker just doesn't respond.
 
On my 6,1 everything is smooth until the first wake from sleep. Then my mouse has these annoying little micro stutters until I reboot. I'm using a Logitech bluetooth mouse.
 
mrmiketheripper said:
gotta say, it feels pretty sluggish on my 2016 MBP
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hog7 said:
I also have a 2016 MBP and Mojave seems a lot slower. It frequently hangs and freezes where it was fine in High Sierra.
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mrmiketheripper said:
I did a fresh install on my 2016 MacBook Pro and Mojave still feels slower than High Sierra. Boot times are especially longer compared to my 2015 MacBook Pro. Also, the touchbar emoji picker just doesn't respond.
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Yeah, late 2013 13" Macbook Pro here, 2.4 GHz i5, 4GB RAM, have to say Mojave is noticeably more sluggish than High Sierra. Generally this machine has flown with all OS updates, this is the first one where it has taken a hit. I guess 5 years is the general laptop replacement zone anyway.
 
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