MacOS Sierra - 1st Impressions

datostar

Took the plunge last night when Sierra appeared in the Mac App Store and started the download about 7pm on my late 2012 i7 16GB iMac. It's not far short of 5GB and was still downloading at 10.30pm when I went to bed and put the iMac to sleep. Probably high demand on the servers. Next morning it was all there and ready to install, which took around 1 1/2 hours so it's a big one.

No drastic changes to the visual appearance but a lot of changes under the hood and a couple of apps requested downloads of fonts. Seems a bit zippier than Yosemite was. Early days yet but no problems at all so far so if anyone's pondering whether to update I'd say go for it.

Fightsback

datostar wrote: »

late 2012 i7 16GB iMac.

Thank you Mr D. Mail-Reader for letting us know the price of your property

datostar

Fightsback wrote: »

Thank you Mr D. Mail-Reader for letting us know the price of your property

Where's the price of the property then and what's the DM got to do with anything? Lets INTERESTED parties (rather than curmudgeonly trolls) know that a 2nd hand 4 year old machine can easily run the latest OS.

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datostar wrote: »

know that a 2nd hand 4 year old machine can easily run the latest OS.

Next to me I have an 8 year old umpteenth hand lappy that runs Microsoft's latest OS quite easily for an old and low specced girl.

Let us know how Sierra runs on a 2008 mac ?

datostar

Fightsback wrote: »

Next to me I have an 8 year old umpteenth hand lappy that runs Microsoft's latest OS quite easily for an old and low specced girl.

Let us know how Sierra runs on a 2008 mac ?

As you no doubt already know, a 2008 Mac won't even install Sierra, but will continue to run its existing OS X installation perfectly well, in the same way that many users continue to run Win XP and 7 on older machines. The original post was intended to assist Mac users in deciding whether to update their system early, not to provoke antagonism from those to whom the post doesn't even apply.

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datostar wrote: »

As you no doubt already know, a 2008 Mac won't even install Sierra, but will continue to run its existing OS X installation perfectly well, in the same way that many users continue to run Win XP and 7 on older machines. The original post was intended to assist Mac users in deciding whether to update their system early, not to provoke antagonism from those to whom the post doesn't even apply.

No, not antagonism.

Just for the recorded I also have a Xeon/Gigabyte/Nvidia Hackintosh

knightstyle

My 8 month old Macbrook Pro took 17mins to download with wi-fi and about 5mins to install.
Haven't had a chance to look at it in detail.

rhysadams

Just to put a spanner in the works we have 2 x 2009 Macbook Pro 17" systems and they are both working Sierra and running quite nicely with it too! Our boffin in the office managed to sort it out!

I'm running it on a Macbook Retina, seems good. I always struggle with space so the iCloud system is going to work wonders for me!

System

TITSUP Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (military slang)

Several hours later and still a borked iMac, and to think I criticise Microsoft.

prowla

It's fine on my Mid 2011 Mac mini, maybe a bit more responsive and faster to boot.

[Deleted User]

Took about half an hour to download on my Mac Mini. It looks good. I love having Siri on it.