Sequoia cannot be installed on M5 Macbook. Silly me.

[ForkHandles]

Its not distrust, but rather preference and concern.

Its great that its working well for you, but that doesn't negate the legions of people having compatibility and performance issues. Then there's the UI, and how it gets in the way for some people, making it harder or they just don't like what how it works.

Finally, the idea of fixing something that isn't broken. If Sequoia is working well, no issues, what does Tahoe give you? The major feature of Tahoe is the Glass UI, and if that doesn't interest you, why bother.

I think we must take solace from the fact that this platform has gone through months of beta testing, by a similar number of legions, reporting bugs which then get addressed. Apple have the stats and it’s highly unlikely that they released the os before it reached minimum standards.
The vast majority of users experience are overwhelmingly positive.

When it comes to change, people love to moan don’t they? On iOS at least what’s brilliant is that it completely gets out of your way, minimising things that have no urgent need of being front and centre.

On Mac, not a great deal has changed to be honest. I can still get my work done.

 

[rb2112]

This is and has been the case for many years, when new HW is released at the same time as a new OS, it only runs on the new OS... like and iPhone 17 requires iOS 26, nothing new...

OP, I do remember this happening with 2011 MBP 17". Wanted OS X 10.6...but no way around needing to use 10.7. I think I tried using a 13" MBP install disk to no avail. IIRC it was close except for maybe the display drivers. Oh well, in the end it did not matter due to GPU death., but yeah, what you are seeing is normal.

 

[zenmacx]

From the early response, MacOS 26 doesn't seem ready for primetime and was rushed out the door with myriad of stability issues. Great that it's working well for you but Safari 26 is super laggy on my M4 Pro MBP 14. I reverted Safari and am sticking to Sequoia for now.

I look forward to upgrading to the redesigned MBP 16 in a year and hopefully Apple will have worked out their OS kinks by then or else they're not getting (any more of) my money. Apple has really regressed from a software quality standpoint lately.

Well said!

I too find macOS 26 super laggy on my 16” M4 Max MacBook Pro. Their are a plethora of smaller annoyances as well. As my much loved primary computer this is very disappointing.

As a long time PowerBook / MacBook / MacBook Air / MacBook Pro user this is far less than Apples best work and I dare say incredibly discouraging.

 

[maflynn]

I too find macOS 26 super laggy

I was hoping that 26.1 was going to improve upon that

 

[brilliantthings]

I was hoping that 26.1 was going to improve upon that

I think it has improved but it's still laggy and unreliable.

 

[maxoakland]

What would be the point to return the M5 Macbook for a M4 with Sequoia? What if you don’t like macOS 27 either? Then you have a fantastic modern device that remains stuck on an old OS.

If Apple keeps making the Mac worse, I’m moving to Linux. We’re not locked in no matter how much they want us to be