I kind of doubt they will do that for every application. Some Macs has over 100 applications! I think what they meant was system applications (such as... perhaps Notes). And, I'm sure Apple will find a way to make it Mac-like/have the UI be Mac friendly. It'd make no sense if Apple basically copied and ported over the Settings app from iOS onto the Mac.
With DX12 now on a completely different architecture (x64 vs ARM) than the current crop of Macs this is super unlikely. Full emulation is the only option now; call translation is dead.
Ha ha thanks. Sheesh, sounds even worse than I thought. Well I can't wait any longer, or macOS 13 will be out, and then a brand new 13.0.0 will be installed on new Macs. This way I'll be able to stick with 12.x.x and it's minor updates and bug fixes.
I find Mojave to be fast and stable on my 2015 rMBP (16GB RAM, 1TB SSD). No desires or plans to update it, going by all the complaints of newer macOS versions.
I wouldn't worry about "support". I'm running Mojave, and there's no issues. Just keep your backups up to date, as always, and you're fine.
I didn’t see any slowdown on my 2019 MBP in upgrading from Big Sur to Monterrey . I wonder if the way you are keeping all of your files on external hard drives might be causing something to work inefficiently?
By support I meant security updates. I'd been running High Sierra on my main computer until last week, which means 18 months beyond its last security update; stuck with it b/c it's the last OS that implements subpixel text rendering natively, and thus the last OS on which text looks sharp on non-Retina monitors, at least to my eyes. No issues, since I practice good hygiene, but my job finally put its foot down, so I had to update. I don't want to install an OS that I'm going to have to switch over in a few months, so Monterey stays ahead of that.
Thats sounds really interesting.
Yorkshire. Isn’t that down by Gardena?
Recently went from 10.6 snow to 10.11 El Capitan and had all kinds of problems with time machine and Firefox and terminal.
AMD and Nvidia really bring lots of enhancements for gaming such as FSR and DLSS which increase FPS. About Metal,... it just works.
Quite simple but may take a day to complete depending on your amount of data and USB port speeds:
-Obviously backup your data and disconnect your backup drive for safe keeping.
-Assuming coming from older MacOS like El Capitan or Sierra or High Sierra and your computer supports Mojave or higher. If it doesn’t support Mojave there’s another program called dosdude1 but that’s a little more complicated and found in the other forums here at MR.
-Set up a new empty external hard drive that is about the same size of your older hard drive or larger, choose Guid: HFS+ In disk utility, use a different name on external drive. Drive doesn't have to be SSD it’ll just be really slow. (Be careful when using disk utility to only choose and erase the new external hard drive and not any other drives.)
-Download carbon copy cloner from bombich website. (throw them a bone if everything works great.)
-Clone your old High Sierra internal drive to the destination of the new external drive with safety net off. If it asks you to copying the recovery partition you can try to hit yes. (Depending on your amount of data and whether you’re on USB2 or USB3 this copy could take all night for everything.) [Make sure your external drive doesn’t get too hot from all that data, I was using a sata dock and the drive was very warm so I kept the fan on it.]
-After copy completes Boot from new drive by rebooting computer and hold option key and select new disk.
-Desktop and files should look identical to your older drive, you can get info on your old hard drive and the new one and they should be within a gigabytes of each other. (Carbon copy cloner doesn’t copy the trash or some temporary files so that’s why there could be some differences.) If not or if a lot of data is missing reboot and go back and start over again with a copy and make sure it completes without error.
-Eject old High Sierra disk. That way you’ll know you’re on the correct external hard drive.
-Download Mojave:
(You may need to change clock back to 2019 if certificates are expired on your installer.)How to download and install macOS - Apple Support
Download and install current or previous versions of the Mac operating system on compatible Mac computers.support.apple.com
-Install Mojave from applications folder.
-It will take a while and reboot many times. (You may hear a long tone from your computer and a funny looking progress bar, don’t panic that’s just the software updating the firmware on your computer that Mojave brings along.)
-A new introductory screen may appear, answer the questions.
-Once it’s done you’ll notice that the new hard drive disk is now in APFS format after the desktop appears.
-Correct the clock to today’s date.
-Apply all security updates on new Mojave disk until no more updates. (Updates moved back into the system preferences. Or Apple menu/about this Mac/system updates.)
-The computer may seem unresponsive at times and take a long time to shut down or reboot but that’s the slowness of the APFS, You may see a swirly, just let it continue it’ll finish eventually.
-Don’t open mail or other apps yet.
-Run carbon copy cloner from bombich again, if it asks you about a previous task you can delete it.
-Clone the external Mojave hard drive to the destination of the old High Sierra drive with safety net off.
(Copy shouldn’t take as long because it’s only copying the operating system changes and not your user folders, it might be around 15 GB of differences or less.)
-After copy completes reboot computer, Hold option key, select your original hard drive.
-Once you get your desktop, go to system preferences and change the start up disk to your normal hard drive.
-You can eject the new external disk.
-Launch all your apps like Mail and let it upgrade your data to the Mojave version.
-When you feel comfortable that everything came across correctly you can reconnect your back up drive and continue from there on.
-Mojave will be the last version of macOS you can run that supports older 32 bit apps, I’m still using iDVD in Mojave and it works great.
-Now you get a few more years out of your computer.
Notes:
The reason we had to apply the security updates in Apple‘s APFS file system is because security updates will not install with HFS+.
Since Apple has discontinued security updates for Mojave you no longer need the APFS file system.
Other updates like App Store updates and Safari updates will still install under HFS+ if they become available.
Unfortunately the APFS file system is very slow on older computers with a mechanical hard drive but we know that older computers running HFS+ are still very snappy.
So if you use a SSD formatted to HFS+ It will result in even faster boot times than Apple’s APFS file system on older hardware.
(I think I covered everything.)
Unfortunately, this is wrong. Yes, the iCloud backup is "encrypted". But not with end-to-end encryption. Apple has the keys and can look into the backups. This is also done - at the latest when there is a request from a government agency. Therefore, iMessage is not suitable for confidential data, because you do not know whether the other party uses iCloud Backup.
Amen to this. Especially to those of us that for whatever reason still like to have music on their desktop like I am a professional musician and I need the actual files. I always say “I am now a Luddite. Because I wanna actually have an own the ones and zeros “
Try 'Rectangle': https://rectangleapp.com/. It works for me.
I switched to Swinsian as a good pre-Music iTunes clone... haven't opened Music.app since
Unfortunately, this is wrong. Yes, the iCloud backup is "encrypted". But not with end-to-end encryption. Apple has the keys and can look into the backups. This is also done - at the latest when there is a request from a government agency. Therefore, iMessage is not suitable for confidential data, because you do not know whether the other party uses iCloud Backup.
iCloud data security overview - Apple Support
iCloud uses strong security methods, employs strict policies to protect your information, and leads the industry in using privacy-preserving security technologies like end-to-end encryption for your data.
iCloud Backups Are Not Encrypted End-to-end: This is How You Fix It
iCloud backups are not encrypted end-to-end. We explain how you can do it yourself and report on the current discussion about the influence of the FBI.www.boxcryptor.com
"But careful: encryption is great. However, true privacy only comes with end-to-end encryption. It is important to know that for any kind of encryption, someone must have the key. End-to-end encryption can only be decrypted by the sender and receiver of messages. In case of the encryption offered by Apple (and many other cloud providers), however, the keys are in the hands of the respective company. A detailed explanation can be found in our article on end-to-end encryption.
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Apple’s own Messenger iMessage also reveals the paradox around the much-vaunted “security”: messages in iMessage itself are secured with end-to-end encryption – but once the messages are stored on the phone, they still end up on Apple’s iPhone backup without the protection of end-to-end encryption."
