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Not going to upgrade
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After considerable playing around, I still haven't found a compelling reason to update. Apple seems to be putting most of its resources into parts of the OS that I have little interest in. That and making access to App's internals harder. At least they didn't pull AppleScript. -That's probably 10.15
12.14 works nicely, but so does 12.13.6.
12.14 works nicely, but so does 12.13.6.
Sometimes it depends on what machine you're using. For instance it's a great upgrade for me on my cMP. The included firmware upgrade is tremendous, as is the video driver for my AMD graphics card. These are my primary benefits, but also the APFS support is better. The container volumes remain better organized for me than on High Sierra. If you don't really know what I'm referring to here, it's not worth it to explain, but I personally appreciate a neatly organized filesystem.
Definitely.
If I'd seen a big improvement somewhere, I'd go for it.
Without that, I'll probably wait til 10.14.4 or something.
Let them squish the inevitable bugs a 1 year update cycle imposes.
remember, too, that a lot of work goes into what's under-the-hood; general enhancements, bug fixes, etc. it's that that i care most about; i want the OS to support my work needs, my apps... and mojave is doing that really well....
had exactly this experience. quite pleased with my 'new computer.'
I like Mojave. Dark mode is a welcome change from white and light grey theme I've had for God knows how long. I have run into minor glitches but nothing major. Performance seems on par w/ hs.
I have only just upgraded from Sierra to High Sierra for a similar reason. Avoids a lot of bugs that way.
Running El Capitan would eventually become a security issue. Enjoy now while it last, I wished El Capitan can live on aswell.
2012 Retina MacBook Pro. Speed is perfect. No complaints. Dark mode is the bomb. It's like I got a new computer for free.
Most tools I am using are dark mode so having Safari and the desktop and XCode dark mode is absolutely perfect.
For all the technical changes over the years, Dark Mode is the most noticeable upgrade ever. It just looks badass.
As for speed - the thing is Intel hasn't really made their processors significantly faster in the last 6 years. There's some improvements but they're marginal. 6 vs 4 cores would obviously make a difference but other than that - CPU speeds just haven't improved very much.
Look at the detailed benchmark scores of a brand new "high end" 2.9 Core i9 vs. the lowest end Intel i7 6 core processor - very different prices, and 2.3 vs 2.9 Ghz sounds like a big difference, but the actual speed difference in the benchmarks is something like 10%, if that. Both processors have turbo boost etc so they don't actually run at those frequencies. They run in a thermal envelope taking into account speed, power use, and heat. In the end they're nearly the same.
I think the lower spec ones are just made to sound worse for marketing reasons, and the higher end ones are made to sound better, but it's really pretty much almost the same thing, for a $700 price difference...
Does anyone know how much disk space is lost or gained with the Mojave upgrade? I've been on the fence because I don't want to lose any more disk space.