Should I upgrade to High Sierra on my older macbook?

[hollabackgirl805]

Hi everyone,

I'm on a 15 inch Macbook Pro from mid 2010 - maxed out specs at the time:

2.66 ghz i7
8 gb 1067 ddr3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB
Intel HD Graphics 288 MB

Frankly, it still runs remarkably well! However, I know new updates will often have more advanced features that take up more computing power, and I'm wondering if High Sierra will do this or not. Has anyone heard about High Sierra slowing down older machines, or am I safe to update?

 

[chscag]

Mactraker says you can run the latest version of macOS (High Sierra) on your MacBook Pro. What version of macOS are you running now?

 

[Raz0rEdge]

What are you running right now? High Sierra is really more of a tweak of Sierra with the big addition being APFS (for SSDs)

If you are running a regular HDD in your machine, then APFS isn't part of the equation for you.

 

[0002378]

I say go for it, but first upgrade your HDD to an SSD. That is the single best upgrade possible for you (probably the only one, coz everything else is maxed out).

I have a mid-2009 and am able to run Sierra on it very well, but with 8GB RAM and a kickass SSD.

 

[Fishrrman]

OP wrote:
"Frankly, it still runs remarkably well! However, I know new updates will often have more advanced features that take up more computing power, and I'm wondering if High Sierra will do this or not. Has anyone heard about High Sierra slowing down older machines, or am I safe to update?"

You didn't tell us if it's still using the original platter-based hard drive, or if you have an SSD inside.

If you don't have an SSD, putting one in will make THE BEST improvement of all, better than ANY OS upgrade.

You didn't tell us what version of the OS you're using NOW.
If it's El Capitan or Low Sierra, my advice would be:
1. Put an SSD into it -- a MUST... then...
2. "Let it be" with the OS that's running "remarkably well" for you right now.