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The latest version of Apple's macOS operating system, macOS High Sierra, has been released. If you have upgraded your system already, how did the upgrade go? Did you encounter any problems? If you have not yet updated, why have you chosen not to?
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(Score: 1) by jman on Friday September 29 2017, @09:54AM
To all the "Walled Garden" haters, it's still BSD under the hood, so can be managed.
By far, my '09 MBP is the computer I've used for the longest time (going back to the C64, the first 'puter I bought as an adult. A whole $250! Same cost as my first 40 meg Seagate drive some years later), and I've worked the hell out of it.
It's extremely stable, though when compiling or running Adobe I do kinda wish I could have more than 8GB of memory.
Unfortunately for their immense, overflowing coffers, due to Apple's insistence that I no longer be able to upgrade my own memory, or even generally repair my own machine, until that situation should change it'll be the last purchase they get out of me (phone and tablet are Android).
Sure, if PS/AI/ID/TB/FF/Etc. are all loaded at once (as is usual), things may tarry a little, but no way in hell am I going to spend $3500 for a machine I can't fix.
(Had thought when Mac Pro came out in '13 they were giving a shout out to folks that actually use them as the tools they are, not fancy, expensive and disposable TV's, but apparently they changed their mind.)
So, the upgrade went swimmingly ... as my hardware won't support it, am still on El Capitan, and will remain that way until this box finally dies, at which time I'll probably build a modern one (or buy a nice strong Intel-based laptop) and put Hackintosh on it.
Guess I'm getting into the Grumpy Guy stage, as I won't be upgrading FF past v56 either, since Tab Groups is considered "Legacy", and there's just not enough free time to figure out how to convert it to WebExtensions.