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

[Wingnut 7]

I just upgraded from High Sierra to Mojave 10.14. I'm running a 2017 iMac Pro, 3 GHz 10 core, 128 Gig RAM, Vega 64 and 2 TB SSD.

Other than some compatibility issues with few of my Apps, which were all resolved, I have had no adverse issues with Mojave. Speed wise it's about the same as with High Sierra.

The jury is still out regarding the "DARK LOOK" however. It almost hurts my eyes when I open an app or an "E-Mail" that has a white background.......

 

[rocknblogger]

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.

i have a mid 2013 15 inch rMBP and I have to agree. I actually skipped High Sierra as I felt Sierra was quite stable and I didn't notice much if any slow downs. Now however it does feel a lot more sluggish. I'm considering doing a fresh install since I've never done that since I bought it. It's going to be a huge pain in the ass but I'm willing to do it.

Does anyone know if an app or terminal command to print out all the apps that I have installed?

 

[QCassidy352]

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.

Same computer but 8 GB of RAM. I regret upgrading to Mojave - first time I've regretting an OS update with this mac. It's just slower and less responsive, especially MS Office. I tried dark mode for a couple of days and got sick of it... I'm not an animal, so I don't leave icons all over my desktop... just really no upside for me, but it'd be a hassle to downgrade, so I'm undecided.

 

[Starman535]

How is it on a 5400 rpm HDD iMac? One feature that specifically was shown was Improved Hard Drive Performance and given that MacOs performs quite badly on spinning hard drives, any improvement is welcome.
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I hope is the latter. Mac OS performs quite badly on spinning hard drives since Yosemite.

I put it on my 2015 MacBook Pro, 2.5 GHz I5, 16 gb RAM. It deleted all my passwords, and made the laptop a brick. Had to re-install High Sierra from backup.

 

[kagharaht]

Takes over 2 minutes from a cold boot. Sandisk External SSD drive as my boot drive. That and the ugly font rendering is a major issue.

 

[LD Curb]

I have the MacBook Pro 13, early 2015. Mojave has been a nightmare so far. Photoshop Elements has been terribly slow and unresponsive. The spinning beach ball is my constant "friend" with most everything I do.

EDIT: 10/25 - For some reason it is getting better. The only solution that I found for the issue with Photoshop elements was to upgrade to PSE 2019, which I did and it made a huge difference.

I have issues with images uploading to the cloud. If I save an image from PSE to my desktop it can take over an hour to get to the cloud. I usually just let it do its thing so I'm not sure when it actually gets there but it appears that it does.

I see ZERO improvements with Mojove. I still have issues such as no notification on emails until I log out of mail and then back in and then tons of email notices come in ... Had that before ... still do.

 

[willgreene99]

I performed an in-place upgrade (meaning not booting from USB and wiping the High Sierra partition) and so far it feels about the same as before. Nothing is slower or faster than what I experienced prior to the upgrade.

Only one app I use has to be upgraded as it does not launch at all but present the crash dialog window - Mindjet MindManager - 10.6.125. Time to upgrade to 11

Side note: More apps now present the dialog window that they will no longer be supported in a future version of OSX.

I am on a:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2048 MB // Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

P.S. - Not sure I am a fan of the Finder's black and grey striped background, have to get used to it.

 

[steveaburns]

i have a mid 2013 15 inch rMBP and I have to agree. I actually skipped High Sierra as I felt Sierra was quite stable and I didn't notice much if any slow downs. Now however it does feel a lot more sluggish. I'm considering doing a fresh install since I've never done that since I bought it. It's going to be a huge pain in the ass but I'm willing to do it.

Does anyone know if an app or terminal command to print out all the apps that I have installed?

Simple answer:

ls /Applications

Slightly deeper into /Applications folder

mdfind kMDItemKind="Application" | grep "^/Applications/"

Only apps from App Store:

find /Applications -path '*Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt' -maxdepth 4 -print |\sed 's#.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt#.app#g; s#/Applications/##'

System Wide:

mdfind kMDItemKind="Application"

 

[x_man_]

Actually it works very well on my MBP 2016 15". I did upgrade it over the High Sierra installation (i.e. It is not a "fresh" or "clean" install). Not find a single problem.

 

[roblin]

Safari got super sluggish last week..

 

[zen]

Same computer but 8 GB of RAM. I regret upgrading to Mojave - first time I've regretting an OS update with this mac. It's just slower and less responsive, especially MS Office. I tried dark mode for a couple of days and got sick of it... I'm not an animal, so I don't leave icons all over my desktop... just really no upside for me, but it'd be a hassle to downgrade, so I'm undecided.

I think I might downgrade this weekend - my Macbook Pro is just too slow - not unworkable or unusable, but sluggish enough that it is a real annoyance. It feels like an old computer - and it is! Except it was as snappy as hell under High Sierra.

 

[rjedoaks]

2017 iMac, no issues, runs smoother and definitely seems quicker. Working great.

 

[Gator1pk]

My MacBook Pro 15 Retina (mid 2012) definitely feels faster than High Sierra.

 

[rocknblogger]

Simple answer:

ls /Applications

Slightly deeper into /Applications folder

mdfind kMDItemKind="Application" | grep "^/Applications/"

Only apps from App Store:

find /Applications -path '*Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt' -maxdepth 4 -print |\sed 's#.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt#.app#g; s#/Applications/##'

System Wide:

mdfind kMDItemKind="Application"

Thank you this is great but is there a command I can use to list 3rd party NOT from the App Store?

Thanks,
R

 

[crocteau]

Installed Mojave over El Capitan a week ago. The good: Cold start to rock-and-roll less than 30 seconds. No problems yet with MS Office 365 or 2011, Adobe CC or CS6 suite, current Apple software as well as good old iPhoto 9.6.1 which runs like a rabbit and accesses recent map. iMazing picks up where new iTunes leaves off. ON1 trounces Photos. The bad: Final Cut Express and Apple Loops Utility no longer work. Not yet spoiled by retina display so font rendering change isn't the end of my world. The ugly? Don't know; haven't bothered with Dark Mode.
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB

 

[zen]

Not yet spoiled by retina display so font rendering change isn't the end of my world.

For work today, I hooked up my MBP to an external 27" display (Asus, 2560 x 1440), and was surprised at how jagged the text was. I used to prefer the way Mac's handled text on non-retina displays, but having just connected this display back to my Windows 10 PC, it's a pleasant relief!

 

[crocteau]

... I hooked up my MBP to an external 27" display (Asus, 2560 x 1440), and was surprised at how jagged the text was. I used to prefer the way Mac's handled text on non-retina displays, ...

I still prefer the way Macs used to render fonts on non-retina displays. It may just be my eyes, but to make text look truly awful in Mojave I have to crank up the Accessibility zoom past 5x. For example I find that a font set at 172 points and zoomed 500% in Word is still acceptable either on my non-retina 15" MBP or on an old Apple 27" thunderbolt display. At normal text sizes I have found it helpful to make characters a little darker by turning on extra contrast in the Accessibility panel. Next year will probably find me wishing I had bought a 2015 MBP.

 

[Starman535]

My problem is different. I have a 13" MacBook pro, 2015 edition, I5, 2.5 Ghz processor, 15 gb RAM. Under Mojave, if I shut down, when I log back in, it loses all user passwords. This is more of a major pain than the slow boot from the Samsung 500 Gb SSD I have in it. Apple help told me a method to reset the user passwords, and that method worked once, but no more. Now, the only solution I have is to restore from a Time Machine backup.

 

[MickeyVee]

Was running the beta on my MacBook 12 (2016) and then the final on release day (was actually the last beta). No problems whatsoever. Just use that machine for Office 365 and some light photo editing & browsing. This machine lives in dark mode.

Waited two weeks and then upgrade in place on my 2012 Mac Mini and again, no issues. No real heavy lifting other than editing RAW files in various photo apps. Regular mode for the Mini & have a DELL U2515H monitor 2560x1440. Fonts are as crisp and clear as before.

 

[archvile]

2015 13” MBP reporting in. Did a clean install of Mojave, no backup restored, and it’s running pretty solid.

The iOS apps (Home, News, et. al) are slower than dog piss to start up, but I feel those are more of a beta than anything. Also, Wi-Fi calling keeps randomly disabling itself (it will say “Receive calls when your iPhone is nearby” instead of the other wording where your iPhone doesn’t need to be nearby, forget what it says).

10.14.1 fixed the dock randomly popping up when switching between full screen apps, that one was driving me crazy as I use full screen apps exclusively.
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My problem is different. I have a 13" MacBook pro, 2015 edition, I5, 2.5 Ghz processor, 15 gb RAM. Under Mojave, if I shut down, when I log back in, it loses all user passwords. This is more of a major pain than the slow boot from the Samsung 500 Gb SSD I have in it. Apple help told me a method to reset the user passwords, and that method worked once, but no more. Now, the only solution I have is to restore from a Time Machine backup.

Do you see those passwords on your iPhone under Passwords & Accounts? I haven’t had any issues with iCloud Keychain so far; had a few in the past where it would randomly stop syncing but not since iOS 12/Mojave. It’s been working great. Maybe try a good ol’ clean install.

 

[balph]

2015 13” MBP reporting in. Did a clean install of Mojave, no backup restored, and it’s running pretty solid.

The iOS apps (Home, News, et. al) are slower than dog piss to start up, but I feel those are more of a beta than anything. Also, Wi-Fi calling keeps randomly disabling itself (it will say “Receive calls when your iPhone is nearby” instead of the other wording where your iPhone doesn’t need to be nearby, forget what it says).

10.14.1 fixed the dock randomly popping up when switching between full screen apps, that one was driving me crazy as I use full screen apps exclusively.
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Do you see those passwords on your iPhone under Passwords & Accounts? I haven’t had any issues with iCloud Keychain so far; had a few in the past where it would randomly stop syncing but not since iOS 12/Mojave. It’s been working great. Maybe try a good ol’ clean install.

I actually rolled back to High Sierra after trying Mojave because of the Dock popping up with fullscreen apps issue... It was really annoying. Now I upgraded from 10.13.6 to 10.14.1 but the issue is still there for me, very strange that this issue has been resolved for you. Maybe I should do a clean install but I doubt it will fix the Dock issue actually.

 

[Starman535]

I don't know about IOS, as I don't have an iPhone,and I don't have an iCloud account either. Didn't know 10.14.1 was out yet. Still on 10.13 at work and 10.14.0 at home. Laptop still bugs me about iCloud, but I ignore it. New App Store under Mojave is a real POS.

 

[goslowjoe]

Updated from 10.14 without a single problem. Content Caching on the iMac served the update to two MacBook Pro units on the network, in seconds. In another location, my Mac Mini also updated without an issue.

All devices are performing flawlessly. Don't know if this is the case with others, but the startup procedure does not halt towards the end, screen goes blank and then the startup procedure continues, anymore. Now just one progress bar without interruption.

One thing that has not changed though is the reported low writing speeds on certain SSDs (in my case a WD Green on the 21" iMac). Black Magic Speed Test still shows a measly 70MBs although it does not feel that slow.

 

[Starman535]

I downgraded to 10.13.6 again. (*&^(*%^(* Mojave 10.14.1 still killed my user passwords on re-start, with no available fix working. That system just isn't ready for prime-time, at least not on my 2015 I5 MacBook Pro. Works fine, as long as it doesn't re-start. After re-start, there is no logging on. I'll try again when 10.14.3 comes out.

 

[StellarVixen]

I am sorry for all of those who have problems.

Mine is performing flawlessly. I was irritated by brief black screen at startup/losing, but that is gone since 10.14.1. Oh, and I am on mid 2012 non retina MBP.