Sequoia ready for prime time and how is battery life compared to Sonoma?

[nph]

Is Sequoia ready to be the main computer? This include full Office compatibility
Also how is battery life if you arecomoing from Sonoma

 

[gilby101]

Is Sequoia ready to be the main computer? This include full Office compatibility

New features, new strengths and new bugs. But mostly, yes. Office as in Microsoft 365 works fine - is that what you mean.

Also how is battery life if you arecomoing from Sonoma

Much the same.

 

[toto75]

Sequoia can be main computer. It include Office compatibility. Your welcome

 

[PotentPeas]

I think Sequoia is fine to use since macOS 15.2. (Prior versions had a bug that prevented firewall rule changes in some cases, which might not have bothered "most people" but sure did bother me...) I'm not having any problems using it as a daily driver, Office works the same as it always has, and battery life seems in line with Sonoma (after initial reindexing is done).

Other issues that I am aware of in Sequoia right now are ...

* In the Calculator app, repeat operations don't work (fixed in upcoming macOS 15.3)
* Full-disk bootable backups cannot be made anymore using third-party tools (i.e. Carbon Copy Cloner) — this broke in macOS 15.2, unclear if Apple is going to fix it, but I hope that they do — though, not too big a deal for me, since it is easy enough to just do a new macOS install and then immediately restore from backup with Migration Assistant.

 

[nph]

Thank you all, seems taking 15.3 might be good timing.

 

[benwiggy]

Is Sequoia ready to be the main computer? This include full Office compatibility

Microsoft made Office compatible with Sequoia in the September 24 update. Office 2019 is unsupported, though.