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

StellarVixen said:
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.
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I have kept my 2015 I5 2.5 GHz, 16 Gb Ram, 500 Gb Samsung SSD Macbook Pro in top condition since I got it, but Mojave only corrupts my passwords with no recovery. High Sierra starts up dog slow (I can brew a cup of tea & start drinking it waiting for it), but I never had this problem with any Mac since 2000. Even my 450 Mhz PPC boots in < 1 min on OSX 10.4.9. Mojave is not for prime-time, in my view. I wonder if password length is an issue - I have accounts with none, 7 character, and 9 character. I could try inputting (through the terminal) an 18 character password, if that works better.
 
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cocoua said:
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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I'm also interested any report of how a first generation rMBP (mid-2012 macbookpro10,1) holds up under 10.14; very hesitant to push this particular unit past 10.12.
 
I am a little surprised but on a 21.5” 2014 model with a 1TB 5400 RPM HDD it is actually faster and snappier than High Sierra.

No benchmarks, but yes it is a considerable improvement.
 
Just froze on me. Editing iMovie while these were open. iTunes, Mail, iMessage, News. Thing just froze. Needed hard reboot.

OH I have a Kernel Panic log. I don't understand any of it, but it generated one.
 
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Starman535 said:
I have kept my 2015 I5 2.5 GHz, 16 Gb Ram, 500 Gb Samsung SSD Macbook Pro in top condition since I got it, but Mojave only corrupts my passwords with no recovery. High Sierra starts up dog slow (I can brew a cup of tea & start drinking it waiting for it), but I never had this problem with any Mac since 2000. Even my 450 Mhz PPC boots in < 1 min on OSX 10.4.9. Mojave is not for prime-time, in my view. I wonder if password length is an issue - I have accounts with none, 7 character, and 9 character. I could try inputting (through the terminal) an 18 character password, if that works better.
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Almost every pswd is 20+. Sounds corrupted. Maybe time for clean install, carbon cooy cloner and checking every file. There are reports of having to delete iCloud keychain - move the preference file out too.
 
I have a late 2015 iMac i7 4GHz with 24 GB Ram & the Radeon M395X w/4GB VRAM & fusion drive. I have had nothing but frustration with Mojave since upgrading from 10.11. I have visual lag on almost every app I use, and for some apps & games my load-times are 4-5 times longer than they were the day before upgrading. This is the first time since dumping windows 10 years ago that I have found myself actively telling people to stay away from updating. Am I the only one having these kinds of problems??? My processor & ram usage seem like they are barely touched, and I will confess that I am not terribly skilled at reading the disk performance but I know crap when it lags it's way across my screen.
 
loekf said:
I am a little surprised but on a 21.5” 2014 model with a 1TB 5400 RPM HDD it is actually faster and snappier than High Sierra.

No benchmarks, but yes it is a considerable improvement.
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I would agree and it's kind of surprising since I haven't read that many posts regarding this. Compared to High Sierra 10.13.6 everything in Mojave 10.14.1 seems faster and snappier on my 2012 i7 2.3Ghz Mac Mini and my 2012 2.5Ghz MBP.
 
I came here because I've held off updating my iMac (I bought it in April 2013). High Sierra slowed things down a lot at first, but slowly got better and has been behaving well the last few months. With a lot of mixed reviews on here, it sounds like I may be best off waiting a little longer.
 
2013 rMBP 15" with GeForce GT 750M connected to an external 4K display. As anyone who has these machines with discrete GPU knows, the last few OS versions have been problematic in regards to GPU performance. On a fresh boot, it works pretty well. The longer I use the machine, especially GPU intensive stuff like playing Minecraft, it works fine for a while then degrades to the point where the entire machine slows down. A lot. I have been rebooting once or twice a day. My work Mac (2017 rMBP) hasn't been running Mojave long enough for me to form an opinion.
 
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late 2008 MacBook5,1 - Great
mid 2010 MacBookPro7,1 - Great
mid 2012 MacBookPro9,2 - Great, for some reason does not like my Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse, moves the cursor quite slow even at the fastest setting(must be related to the Bluetooth 4.0 or something).
 
rMBP15" 2012 2,6Ghz 16GB RAM -
98% similar to Sierra, when computer is too busy, it lags imputs as showing app switcher or Dock (hidden by default), also some perecent slower showing dialog menu, but hardly noticeable, in Sierra it wont happen but overall is much similar (High Sierra was so worse I had to downgrade)
 
I have Mojave on a bunch of machines here, but the most important one for the purposes of this thread is my 2011 mini.

It's not even officially supported. With 16GB of RAM and an SSD Mojave runs wicked fast and well with no issues at all.
 
The only machine that I've got that's relevant for this thread is a late 2012 Mini i7 2.3gHz with a 512GB Crucial SSD and 16GB of Crucial RAM. Runs like a champ. No plans to upgrade to Catalina or later due to 32-bit apps. If the hardware holds up, this machine still has years of usefulness, which is a bit of a surprise, given its age.
 
Generally Mojave works fine on my Mac Pro. No freezing or kernel panics encountered.
 
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