Apple
4 Reasons Not to Install macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 & 10 Reasons You Should
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Are you using an old Mac? Like one of the last models to be compatible with macOS High Sierra? If you answered yes, we recommend waiting to see how this experience is for other users. There is a chance the update could run great, but it could also be slow and buggy on an older Mac. There are also times where some features don't come to the older devices so you may not get all of the benefits of upgrading anyway. For example, you won't get the new file system if you aren't on a SSD. We recommend checking forums, Apple Discussion Boards and twitter to find out how your specific model is working on macOS High Sierra -- before you upgrade. | ||||||||||||||||
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German
11/13/2017 at 8:54 am
What would it be a really old Mac? I have a MacBook Pro late 2011.. would it be this a really old one?
JackDanielJenkins
03/09/2018 at 7:25 pm
Same question – I have a MacBook Pro Retina (Late 2013)
Seems anything over 3 months old is considered “really old” these days.
Morten Carlsen
12/13/2017 at 1:50 pm
Every time I come here to read about Apple (I find this site via Google) I never get a straight answer nor opinion.
Not once do you ever dare to call the child by its name.
Are you afraid of Apple ?
Prudencio Mendez Jr
05/31/2018 at 7:39 am
Trouble with the version 10.13.4 and Safari and the slowness never seen before. I hope Apple is aware that they NEED to get a better version. I have had no problems with Firefox…
Marikov
08/24/2018 at 12:17 am
Hey! I have MacBook pro retina 2015. Is that old?
Victor
08/27/2018 at 10:31 am
Look at the upgrade requirements information. As I recall if your Mac is 2009 or later, you should be OK.
GENE MCCALL
11/11/2018 at 11:48 am
After 50 years of writing software and managing software development programs, including operating systems, I would label the Mac high sierra software as junk software. I have version 10.13.6. Mac mail is nearly unworkable, and almost every operation leads to a spinning beachball.
Come on, guys, just make one stable version of OSX that recaptures the Mac-feel of the operating system that drew us to Macs in the first place.
David Collins
07/02/2019 at 10:16 pm
Absolutely. Apple: have dancing girls careering across the screen if your sales manager imagines that’s what your 16- to 26-year old target customers want, but don’t forget, as you have done, that a lot of people actually depend on their systems WORKING, reliably, no glitches, no down-time while problems generated by your latest heap of increasingly-irrelevant software are sorted out. And glued-together hardware doesn’t impress all of us, either.