Since the mission of this blog is to refute myths and legends around Macs, it’s time for me to provide my 2 cents about the issue on hand. Which Mac operating system is the best is a topic of numerous debates among Apple fans. Yes, I lose some useless functionality like animated emojis, but I can live with that.If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Apple for some reason no longer takes the time to get things right. Even 5 years ago this was not true, but today it is. You get 1/4 the hardware cost, and you get reliability way better than Apple these days. Me, I am in the process of moving everything I can to linux. But they did and you have no choice but to get newer hardware if you want to use modern Apple software. Did Apple have to remove the OS functionality that worked well on older machines? Nope. In order for High Sierra to run well you need modern architecture with lots of cores, even if the clock speed and memory seem acceptable.ĭid Apple have to do this? Nope. If you look at High Sierra you will find 100s. If you were able to look at your 2008 computer with the original OS you would find that it has maybe 10 to 20 daemons ( (computing)) running continuously.

Of course, High Sierra has so many bugs I'm not sure it is worth it, but that is besides the point. By run well, I mean using it for any task that is more intensive than email, messages, pages, reddit, twitter, etc. Today for High Sierra, my experience has been that, you need at least 16GB of memory, 4 real cores, and SSD to run well. Apple has been redesigning macOS to only run well in modern hardware.

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