⚠️Sonoma to Sequoia on Intel i9⚠️

[geopoliticus]

Should I rebuild my i9 Mac with a fresh install of Sequoia? Will that 'fix' some of the issues† that I've been seeing since the upgrade? Should I just 'restore' from my Time Machine backup? Since I got this laptop I've just waited for a version.2+ before upgrading and everything has been fine. Not this time.

So the question is would a fresh install help this? My friend just got a new M2 Macbook Air on sale and he's having none of these issues. Are my issues due to upgrading? Or is the Intel i9 not supported as well with this release? Would I be better to reinstall or restore from Time Machine backup to Sonoma? Seems like alot of bugs with this release.

Thanks for taking the time to read.



† I've had many issues after the upgrade:
• CalDigit Doc no longer charges my notebook.
• CalDigit Doc no longer works with external display.
• Seems to charge slower when using my laptop with Apple 85W power adapter.
• Booting laptop into Windows 10 via Bootcamp and everything above works fine. So I'm sure it's not the CalDigit device.

 

[Bigwaff]

I have 2019 i9 MBP with latest Sequoia and CalDigit TS3 Plus dock and have none of the issues you describe.

 

[geopoliticus]

I have 2019 i9 MBP with latest Sequoia and CalDigit TS3 Plus dock and have none of the issues you describe.

Did you upgrade from Sonoma? Or a fresh install? Thanks for chiming in.

 

[JUMA55]

Should I rebuild my i9 Mac with a fresh install of Sequoia? Will that 'fix' some of the issues† that I've been seeing since the upgrade? Should I just 'restore' from my Time Machine backup? Since I got this laptop I've just waited for a version.2+ before upgrading and everything has been fine. Not this time.

So the question is would a fresh install help this? My friend just got a new M2 Macbook Air on sale and he's having none of these issues. Are my issues due to upgrading? Or is the Intel i9 not supported as well with this release? Would I be better to reinstall or restore from Time Machine backup to Sonoma? Seems like alot of bugs with this release.

Thanks for taking the time to read.



† I've had many issues after the upgrade:
• CalDigit Doc no longer charges my notebook.
• CalDigit Doc no longer works with external display.
• Seems to charge slower when using my laptop with Apple 85W power adapter.
• Booting laptop into Windows 10 via Bootcamp and everything above works fine. So I'm sure it's not the CalDigit device.

I had a 2019 iMac 5K i9 2TB 128GB RAM, etc. When Sequoia was released, I made a boot USB with Sequoia, booted to the USB, formatted the internal, installed Sequoia, copied all of my data from an external and installed all of my programs one by one using 600 screen prints of all the settings screens as a guide. Took about a week.

First problem was ExpressVPN wouldn't work. Next was Find My didn't find people, only devices and items. The installer put iPhone Mirroring in my Applications folder and it wouldn't work since I wasn't running on Apple Silicon. And it partially installed Image Playground or installed it but put a bar across the icon to show it wouldn't work. Hey, Apple, if the apps were not going to work, why install them in the first place?

I'm retired, and I spent most of the rest of last year trying to get Sequoia to work correctly with my iMac, and I ran all the way up to February 5th before I said to heck with it. I traded in my iMac to Apple and bought a iMac M4 2TB 32GB RAM.

Does Sequoia now work properly? Yes. There are those around here who've had great luck with Intel Macs and Sequoia. I was not one of them. And I'm of the opinion Apple should have never released Sequoia for Intel Macs. Sonoma should have been the end of line for Intel. But as one member here told me: I shouldn't express my opinions since it looks like I'm speaking for group.

Doing it again, I'd reformat, reinstall, then restore from Time Machine and see how that works. If you have any specific questions let me know.

FWIW, I was using an old, USB A only dock with my old iMac. When I bought my new iMac, I bought one of these:

CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 Pro Dock

The CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 Pro Dock will connect to your Mac’s Thunderbolt 4, or Thunderbolt 3 port to provide 18 ports of connectivity via a single Thunderbolt cable. Buy online now at apple.com.

www.apple.com

Works great. Good luck.