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Macs Able to Run macOS Sierra Remain Compatible With High Sierra

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Apple on Monday announced macOS High Sierra, the next major version of its operating system for Mac computers.

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macOS High Sierra is compatible with any Mac capable of running macOS Sierra, as Apple has not dropped support for any older models this year.

The official list of Mac models compatible with macOS High Sierra:

Late 2009 or Later
MacBook
iMac / iMac Pro

2010 or Later
MacBook Air
MacBook Pro
Mac mini
Mac Pro

To determine your Mac's model year, click on the Apple logo in the top-left menu bar and select About This Mac.

The first macOS High Sierra beta was released to registered Apple developers on Monday. A public beta will be available in late June through the Apple Beta Software Program. The software update will be officially released in the fall.

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Not too surprising. Last year was the first year in a while when they bumped up the minimum model system requirements, and I'd be surprised if they did it two years in a row now (especially for such a minor update, though some of these "refinement" updates in the past have indeed boosted the requirements--but that was when they used to do it for nearly every OS launch anyway and when they didn't necessarily happen on a yearly basis).
 
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HEVC (h.265) acceleration is available to all Macs with a sixth gen (skylake) Intel cpu or newer, so cool my late 2016 MacBook Pro makes the cut because that's a Kaby lake only thing on windows.
 
I'm surprised they haven't pushed more hardware under the bus in order to sell new hardware. I'd figured my old 2014 mac mini was at eol.
 
Well, there is hardly anything new (which might actually be a good thing) but man, this beta runs bad, stutter, stutter and more stutter.

I know it’s a beta but previous DB 1‘s run a lot smother.
 
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xflashx said:
Well, there is hardly anything new (which might actually be a good thing) but man, this beta runs bad, stutter, stutter and more stutter.

I know it’s a beta but previous DB 1‘s run a lot smother.
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Oh really? That's disappointing to hear. I was just about to comment that not much has changed so maybe we will see an earlier release than usual (around iOS) but I guess not, lol. Though now that I think of it, they did mention they were laying a lot of foundational things for the future, so maybe those bugs you're seeing are from them replacing a lot of the guts of the OS?

Honestly, the thing I'm looking forward to the most is the extra storage space gained with APFS, along with Metal running the window drawing and effects system for the UI, which will hopefully help the animation stuttering on my first-gen retina MBP until I can save up for an iMac Pro, lol.
 
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Nice. Looking forward to updating a 2010 MacBook Pro and 2010 Mac mini. Hopefully the new filesystem will bring some performance improvements.

I have some older iMacs that are stuck with 10.11. I'm guessing 10.13 will be it for my 2010 hardware.
 
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This may be a little off topic, but can I reduce the size of my iCloud photo library by converting all existing photos and videos to the HEVC codec?
 
This should be awesome, I can't wait for this to come out, will try it out first on my laptop and then if it works like they say I might upgrade my 2012 Mac mini to Sierra as its still running Mavericks smoothly.
 
JosephAW said:
I'm surprised they haven't pushed more hardware under the bus in order to sell new hardware. I'd figured my old 2014 mac mini was at eol.
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Why would you think that? One of the big reasons I buy Apple stuff is because it's supported for so long. It's one of the things which builds trust and helps keeps resale value high compared to the competition.

Xenomorph said:
Nice. Looking forward to updating a 2010 MacBook Pro and 2010 Mac mini. Hopefully the new filesystem will bring some performance improvements.

I have some older iMacs that are stuck with 10.11. I'm guessing 10.13 will be it for my 2010 hardware.
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Did you replace Hard Drives with SSDs? I did that in my 2011 MBP and it was like getting a new machine.

Berti10 said:
This may be a little off topic, but can I reduce the size of my iCloud photo library by converting all existing photos and videos to the HEVC codec?
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It's interesting - but all conversion results in some change/loss in quality - I would be surprised if Apple did that. Maybe there will be 3rd party utilities/apps (maybe some already out there) that will allow you do it manually.
 
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Does anyone know the Metal 2 compatible GPUs? I can't seem to find it anywhere
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That’s a good question. Unfortunately, I don’t have an answer. I just assumed that any GPU that supports Metal should support Metal 2. Or in the very least, there should be some backward-compatibility. Otherwise, I guess Pascal and the latest AMD cards might be required for Metal 2.
 
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My biggest concern upgrading to anything is potential loss of performance, but perhaps APFS would address this?

I have a 2013, 27 inch i7 iMac with a 4gb gpu and maxed out RAM but I still don't want it slowing down for any reason. I plain skipped out on Sierra because it contained absolutely nothing of interest to me.
 
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I'm on a mid 2010 27" iMac. I think it's amazing that they still support it with updates after almost 7 years.
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On top of that even if you can't run the current OS the previous two versions are maintained with security updates so even if you get EOL in a new OS, the machine is fine for another 2 years in terms of being serviceable.
 
Anyone know if a flashed GTX980 will support Metal2? I don't want to have to reinstall my 5770 to use High Sierra.
 
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