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Recap: macOS Sierra Launch Day
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Your laptop is more than 7 years old... Buy a 7 year old PC with only those mods and let us know how it handles Windows 10.
In a technology world, that's the same as saying, great.... my grandma can't run the marathon anymore.
Windows 10 runs flawlessly on machines that are a lot older than seven years - and it comes with a lot more features than Sierra and supports a much broader range of hardware. So how is that possible...?
I'm running win10 on 9 years old Lenovo laptop and it runs as well as it ran Win7 and Win 8.1.
There is a golden rule in IT, and it doesn't matter which platform you use: NEVER upgrade, ALWAYS install from scratch. Sierra is no exception. After I upgrade a MacBook Pro, the machine wouldn't even shut down anymore. After an installation from scratch, everything feels fast and stable. There might be problems lying in wait, but it's too early to tell.
That''s not at all what I said, nor implied.
Perhaps it's time that you ditched Apple, and switched to a PC. Life would apparently be somewhat less stressful for you, by the looks of it. Why continue down a path that you know will not change, and will continue to cause you some amount of trouble? Seems like a pointlesss exercise to me.
I foolishly live in hope that this is the case too. Fingers crossed. All would be forgiven!
Lol, upgrading pcs is never cost effective? I guess PC enthusiasts have been doing it wrong all these years. I'd say you don't know what you're talking about, but you'll probably just claim to be a tech guru with 20 years of industry experience
Well, we are also at a particular point in time. Performance of CPUs per core over the past ~5 years did only improve by 5% to 10% per generation, while at the same time the switch from magnetic hard disk to SDD brought a huge performance improvement to all IO related processes. Thus upgrading a 5 yr old MAC might indeed be quite cost effective.
Sorry - but bullpoop. I am lucky enough for my 'fleet' to be all current and supported, but I sympathise for those who are stuck with older systems for whatever reason.
Why should Apple drop a 7 year old machine if it's still more than capable of running the OS? As has already been shown in the link on the first page of this thread, a number of those "unsupported" systems are functioning just fine with Sierra - they've just been disabled in software, which people have managed to hack around. Apple share components across a broad variety of their systems and I'm more than willing to bet the majority of components in those systems which have been dropped, are used in other systems which are still supported.
All this crap continues to do is to alienate their already irate older customer base even further. It says a lot that Apple are willing to drop support for OSX on those systems, yet they'll run Windows 10 just fine.
Hell they're selling 3-4 year old hardware as 'current / new' models anyway!!
I guess Apple made those old machines so well that they only way they can force customers into buying new Macs is to prematurely cut off support for those older systems through software instead. Like you say, those systems (maybe with a bit of extra RAM and an SSD) more than have the horsepower for Sierra.
Sigh. I think this too. Unfortunately. Although Apple do seem to be able to develop and churn out custom chips for iPhone and Apple Watch with no leaks at all. And they would have been at work on this for years. Trying to convince myself here!
The only time I've ever used Siri was for fun as the results are always wrong and the thing is imo utterly useless , so I think I may well skip this install on any macs that are compatible in my house.
Looks like I ain't missing much...
I use the Gemini app to clean my mac up that works brilliantly
Looks like I ain't missing much...
I use the Gemini app to clean my mac up that works brilliantly
It is not just security updates from Apple. Also think of browsers like Chrome and Firefox. Latest Firefox version 49.0 for instance just ended support for OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8. And then there will be new software that will only run on Sierra. El Capitan will be fine for a while but sooner or later an upgrade is unavoidable and if the hardware doesn't support Sierra any longer (like one machine in our household), then it will get expensive (or try to get Linux onto the old hardware).
If it were that simple, I would have ditched Apple years ago.
Here's my 2 Geekbench tests side by side. One at 11am, the other at 5pm.
Retina Macbook 12" stock standard. What a HUGE difference Yosemite to Sierra makes.
Won't even open Pages without beach balling and turning to not-responding.
Didn't expect this. Internet Recovery Mode it is, back to Yosemite.
Retina Macbook 12" stock standard. What a HUGE difference Yosemite to Sierra makes.
Won't even open Pages without beach balling and turning to not-responding.
Didn't expect this. Internet Recovery Mode it is, back to Yosemite.
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Your are SAD that it is working fine on your old MacBook?? I would imaging you would be happy!
The even better news is, that your current OSX will run absolutely beautifully on your machine still for yours to come, too.
that is not how u upgrade. you have to do it like u install a completely new program. Look for it under featured tab
of course! that's how I've been using it for the past 2 months and all is working well!