So, I am eking out another few months of the MBP, and I bit the bullet and put Monterey 12.7.4 on via OpenCore LP as I was under the impression it was the most stable. Tell that to the constantly running fans when I'm doing nothing.
The lure of the dark mode was too much....
And if you can recommend replacements for my Photoshop and MS Word that don't work as they're 32 bit, that would be nice too.
Couple of things….
A stand out on my first day using Monterey, it takes far longer to start up than I’ve seen it do on the YouTube OCLP instruction videos on the same laptop. Is this because my hard drive icon now shows up briefly before the Apple logo on start up, since install, and I’ve installed it wrong? I’ve not seen any new OS since High Sierra, so maybe seeing your hard drive icon pre loading, on start up, is normal these days? I expected a bit longer than Sierra, but not this long. SSD and 16GB RAM. Thanks for any help
Should I be seeing this disk on every start up?
and
Should I do software updates, Monterey and Safari come up?
The lure of the dark mode was too much....
And if you can recommend replacements for my Photoshop and MS Word that don't work as they're 32 bit, that would be nice too.
Couple of things….
A stand out on my first day using Monterey, it takes far longer to start up than I’ve seen it do on the YouTube OCLP instruction videos on the same laptop. Is this because my hard drive icon now shows up briefly before the Apple logo on start up, since install, and I’ve installed it wrong? I’ve not seen any new OS since High Sierra, so maybe seeing your hard drive icon pre loading, on start up, is normal these days? I expected a bit longer than Sierra, but not this long. SSD and 16GB RAM. Thanks for any help
Should I be seeing this disk on every start up?
and
Should I do software updates, Monterey and Safari come up?
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