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Upgrade to Tahoe?

would you update if you go back?

  • yes

  • no

  • I haven't upgraded yet

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ParsaS said:
Hi, after all the fuss around Tahoe and all those negative comments, I'm wondering whether to update to Tahoe or not. I have MacBook Air M2 and in Sequoia. It's stable for me and working great.

So my question is how stable is Tahoe for you? what about battery life?
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I've upgraded 2/3 Macs (M1 Pro MBP with 32 GB of RAM and base model M4 Mini). The one I haven't is work-managed and my IT department likes to wait a few months before upgrading. That's fine with me. I just use the computers to do work and Sequoia/Tahoe has made zero difference for me.

I have no regrets. It works at least as well as Sequoia and I like the Liquid Glass UI and overall experience. There haven't been any bugs that I've noticed that have had an affect on my workflows.
 
apostolosdt said:
The worst change however is the disappearance of the launch pad.
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I actually find the new setup to be better than launch pad. I was mad at first, but once I learned I could sort the Application thing alphabetically it became like a smaller, easier to navigate, simpler form of launchpad. I can see apps that used to be stuck in folders, and get to them much easier, without taking the whole screen up. To each their own though.
 
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ignatius345 said:
I've updated one of my Macs to Tahoe, and left the other alone. The machine Sequoia (M4 Air) feels like it's running a "pro" OS and the one running Tahoe (M4 iMac) looks cartoonish and clunky throughout the UI. I very much dislike it and wish I had not updated. So many apps are just a pile of rounded rectangles with shadows heaped onto one another. Honestly, it looks like a bad photoshop mockup some design student would do without really thinking through how it would be executed across the whole OS.

S**t like the Contacts app just leaves me scratching my head and wondering how this is possibly made by Apple and WTF they were thinking here:

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I guess the rumor now is that macOS 27 will be about refining this ****-show, and I would recommend waiting until then. Unless, I guess, they somehow just make it worse.
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What exactly is the problem with this image? I'm confused.
 
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chmania said:
It's meant to run the OS that it came with, and it might run the one after, Monterey. Tahoe arrived five years later, and Apple had stopped producing M1 MacBook Airs in 2024. M1 was the experiment; they would never go back. Apple also stopped producing M2 and M3 MacBook Air models in March this year. It's always wise to wait until the experiment settles.
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what do I does with that macbook airs form 2010 I uses?
umm can I uses the adobes and teh internets?
will the even powers on?
this all MacBooks has the confusions of a gorilla in a banana candle shoppe!
 
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I suppose its a matter of taste, if it works for you good.in matters of taste, the old sage ( in English rather than latin) is: there is no disputing taste
 
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ParsaS said:
Hi, after all the fuss around Tahoe and all those negative comments, I'm wondering whether to update to Tahoe or not. I have MacBook Air M2 and in Sequoia. It's stable for me and working great.

So my question is how stable is Tahoe for you? what about battery life?
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Haven't had any issues at all and have been running since Beta 1.
 
MBAir2010 said:
tahoe was the worse OS as I feel that was Cuppertino "auto pen" as I have no control over the computer!
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Please can you clarify "no control". That sounds more like a failed installation needing a recovery, you should not be losing your control over the computer.
 
TumbleDryer said:
I haven't voted as I'm struggling to comprehend the poll question?! 'Would you update if you go back?' doesn't make sense (to me).

That being said I will say from my experience Tahoe is stable however the UI and UX is a big step backwards. I for one really dislike it and all the unnecessary effects and transparency. It just makes things harder to get things done with all the visual distractions and odd design choices making things more complicated than they need to be.

If I could I would go back to Sequoia.
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Why didn't you just restore from backup?
 
Andy_2341 said:
What exactly is the problem with this image? I'm confused.
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- The gradient makes everything less legible.
- A massive portion of the top is taken up with a completely useless icon that indicates absolutely nothing. It's clearly drawn to be shown at a tiny size, but has been randomly scaled up. This is also a card marked as a business, not a person, so it's not even the right icon.
- boxes upon boxes upon boxes add visual clutter
- again, the ****ing gradient

Here's the same contact card in Sequoia. Simple, uncluttered, extremely legible. The contact thumbnail (which here correctly shows the business icon), is at a sensible size and doesn't take up one-third of the card for no reason.

I guess you can argue that you think the Tahoe version is "pretty" somehow (hard disagree) but it is definitely less functional and harder to read. It's not a good design.

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Apple has always been a design company. Of course the UI effects are 'unnecessary'. MacOS Aqua's effects were unnecessary too. Also, People are always trying to pinpoint a reason for why apple made Liquid Glass. The only reason behind it's existence is that it looks nice, fresh, and new. There are still bugs, but the vision is here
 

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As someone who used Tahoe since the dev betas on my M4 Mac mini, 26.1 is a SIGNIFICANT improvement and I've gotten used to Liquid Glass. I do find the new app drawer annoying though so I use Launchie.

(I'm still on 15.3.1 on my MacBook Pro)
 
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Blame the OS or the apps I have on my M2 Air, but I'm seriously considering doing a Factory Reset and a complete and full fresh reinstall of my apps and files at the top of 2026. Moments of glitchiness since Tahoe 'upgrade' (and its patches - sorry...updates) I live in hope that these will get resolved by doing this.

Particularly galling when I can pull out my 2017 MacBook Air (running Maverick) and not experience issues running essentially the same apps - albeit ones not always 'updated' to keep up with Apple.
 
I have m2 mba. Tahoe ravaged battery life and performance of my machine, though it may have improved with recent updates. I recommend just sticking with sequoia to be safe.
 
The worst it can get is 30% and that is completely ridiculous. If apple can get it to 10% by 26.2 that would already be good, but then it will recieve a massive boost in 27.
 
I personally think a modernization of the hybrid NeXTStep and Platinum icons used in Rhapsody/OS X Server 1 would look nice. (Kind of like the one bundled with Shuriken and the one I use on my Linux devices)
They could do it as an option considering they have classic Mac wallpapers now.
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