Should I upgrade to Monterey?

[theramajor]

Hi all I’m on a 2014 MBPro running Big Sur with 16GB of RAM. When I have multiple apps open system resources sometimes get sluggish.

Have you noticed any performance increase or decrease since upgrading to Monterey?

 

[chrfr]

Hi all I’m on a 2014 MBPro running Big Sur with 16GB of RAM. When I have multiple apps open system resources sometimes get sluggish.

Have you noticed any performance increase or decrease since upgrading to Monterey?

Monterey isn't officially supported on any 2014 laptops, and doesn't really perform any differently on supported Macs. I'd just stay on Big Sur.

 

[theramajor]

Monterey isn't officially supported on any 2014 laptops

Can you please extrapolate what you mean by not “officially reported”? Because I get notifications from system preferences to upgrade. Why would the OS offer an upgrade if it isn’t supported?

 

[chrfr]

Can you please extrapolate what you mean by not “officially reported”? Because I get notifications from system preferences to upgrade. Why would the OS offer an upgrade if it isn’t supported?

If you have an actual 2014 model of a MacBook Pro, it won't install Monterey. System requirements are here:

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Only the early 2015 and later models support Monterey. I have heard of cases where Software Update incorrectly offers the upgrade to incompatible computers.

 

[theramajor]

If you have an actual 2014 model of a MacBook Pro, it won't install Monterey. System requirements are here:

macOS Sonoma

macOS Sonoma brings stunning screen savers, desktop widgets, new ways to share work and web apps along with fun personalization tools and Game mode.

www.apple.com

Only the early 2015 and later models support Monterey. I have heard of cases where Software Update incorrectly offers the upgrade to incompatible computers.

Thank you for clearing that up.

 

[Jack Neill]

Officially supported. No go. OCLP all day long. Monterey is fine although I’ve noticed it running a little hotter on my 2015 MPB 13”. Personally I would give it a try on your 2014 and see if it’s for you.

 

[MajorFubar]

Can you please extrapolate what you mean by not “officially reported”? Because I get notifications from system preferences to upgrade. Why would the OS offer an upgrade if it isn’t supported?

Apple-sourced notifications are dumb. For years my old 2011 iMac would get notifications to update to whatever new OS had just been launched even though it couldn't officially run anything more recent than High Sierra, which it was running. You'd think Apple would get this basic stuff right, but no.