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Tell me again why I should upgrade from Sierra to High Sierra...
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The latest iterations of OS X has been very minor, not many new features, so on one hand there's really little reason to upgrade except for one reason - Security, High Sierra will get security updates and should be more secure.
Other then the file system and maybe HEVC (That doesn't matter to me), I don't think there's much to High Sierra. Apple has really slowed the pace of "innovation" with OS X since Mavericks.
Other then the file system and maybe HEVC (That doesn't matter to me), I don't think there's much to High Sierra. Apple has really slowed the pace of "innovation" with OS X since Mavericks.
Well, the new file system and new file formats are amongst the biggest changes to the OS in the last decade.
Yes, as I had mentioned, but overall, there's not much occurring in High Sierra, as there wasn't much in Sierra, or el cap, etc
Personally i wouldn't. I'm relatively new to Mac (Yosemite was my first macOS) and have not had any problems with all updates until High Sierra.
The max 2gb file size bug in Finder forces me to use Pathfinder for media files to external devices which i do on a weekly basis. Also there seems to be a 'bug' maybe where my tbMBP Late 2016 shuts down when i put to sleep (shut the lid).
Personally with the next major update i'm going to give it some time and see if the bugs outweigh the benefit of the update.
The max 2gb file size bug in Finder forces me to use Pathfinder for media files to external devices which i do on a weekly basis. Also there seems to be a 'bug' maybe where my tbMBP Late 2016 shuts down when i put to sleep (shut the lid).
Personally with the next major update i'm going to give it some time and see if the bugs outweigh the benefit of the update.
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I upgraded my 2010 macbook.
high sierra seems bit smoother in general, not really jumps out just overall.
I have an SSD and 8GB ram though.
One of best features is safari blocking auto play videos!
for me worth it for that alone! I do lots research at work and many sites have auto play adverts! not any more!
I did an upgrade and it did a strange thing with the HDD and partitions.
So gonna make a time machine back and do fresh install.
It works as it is but fresh install cant hurt.
high sierra seems bit smoother in general, not really jumps out just overall.
I have an SSD and 8GB ram though.
One of best features is safari blocking auto play videos!
for me worth it for that alone! I do lots research at work and many sites have auto play adverts! not any more!
I did an upgrade and it did a strange thing with the HDD and partitions.
So gonna make a time machine back and do fresh install.
It works as it is but fresh install cant hurt.
Today? Probably nothing you get with High Sierra will change your life one iota from what Sierra can do. Six months from now? Maybe there will be a compelling reason, perhaps a security update, perhaps a new feature. I followed the advice of Mike Bombich, from Carbon Copy Cloner, and did not upgrade immediately. I was going to wait for three or four months, but my curiosity got the better of me, especially since there did NOT seem to be an inordinate number of bug reports for such a significant structural upgrade.
I upgraded my secondary Mac Pro. Nothing really odd happened - except the four drives inside it (I booted from a PCIe-based SSD) did not mount after the supplemental upgrade. After two restarts, they mounted and have been there ever since. By the way, my biggest gripe for the last year has been how slowly Sierra is at UN-mounting external drives, but that's another story. Anyway, I then decided to upgrade the 13" Touch Bar MBP. Here, the main issue was that the NIK Photo Plugins were disabled. I had hoped those reports might be overblown, but they were correct. I love NIK and have used it for years. Still, I wasn't going to let one piece of software prevent me from upgrading. Also the people at MacPhun have a great suite that essentially replaces NIK - except for one major feature. Anyway, I then went and upgraded the 15" 2015 MBP. Same experience. I then bit the bullet and did what was probably stupid - I upgraded the 2012 Mac Pro, my major work hog and definitely not a stock machine. I made sure I had an Apple-blessed GPU in there and I unhooked all peripherals. It went well. Firmware upgrade, software upgrade. It all works, except for Nik. I have not tried the old Final Cut Pro, but I keep a legacy drive with 10.8.4 on it for old FCP projects. I now also keep an OWC Accelsior blade mounted with Sierra, with CS6 and the Nik plugins, just in case I want to use them. I may not use it much, but it's there.
Anyway, what do you get? Not much. What do I get? I have to be thinking ahead. I maintain other peoples' machines, as well as my own, and I want to be up to date. I have called the updates and when I install them on an individual basis, going back to OS6. I'll continue to do that. I have NOT converted my eSATA boxes and other assorted external drives and boxes to APFS yet and don't plan to for a bit. Just the boot drives. So far, so good. I'll get around to that in a little while, once I'm sure I can trust the new file system with my data.
"High Sierra is just too buggy. Better wait for bugs to be ironed out."
or did you mean to say, "for me...High Sierra is just too buggy". and you're saying "better wait"... as if that were some universal thing (the 'bugs' you're personally experiencing). opinions and experiences should be described as opinions and experiences, not as 'facts'...
not at all, there are plenty of things that piss me off about mac os and ios (so i've hacked a lot on my mac to make me happy, and used to jailbreak my iphones). but my point stands: if you're stating an opinion, it should not be presented as 'fact'. simple concept, really.
there are opinions, and there are facts. so many people here don't seem to understand that, and decide that what they're experiencing is 'fact'... even if others are having a different experience.
exactly, a true experience that you are having (and not everyone's experience).so, based on that fact, you can express your opinion about it...which is still just an opinion (and not a fact).
Unless you have the possibility of conductiing a really HUGE poll with exact data of the hardware and software situation of every user out of that enormous quantity of cases you are including in your gigantic research, something which only big companies could organize (but only do it when they have no choice!) you can never state that what you experience is A FACT. In 99.9999% of the posts in this forum you should not ask for "facts" and be safisfied to hear from users about their different experiences. The only thing one can request (to make them useful for others) is as much data as possible about the hard- and software involved.
It's then up to every reader to make up his/her opinion and act accordingly.
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You don't have to upgrade to HS for that feature, it's in the Safari 11.0 update.