I have a 2010 MacBook Air on its last legs. Wondering if installing macOS Sierra will make it worse or inject some fresh life into the old machine.
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How is macOS Sierra running on older Macs?
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I have a 2012 mac mini base with ssd and 16 memor and it runs very well. Maybe even a little better than el capitan, I'm quite surprised as this is usually the buggier part of the release cycle. I'm very happy with it.
Running Sierra on a MacBook Pro Mid 2009 (unsupported, via dosude1's hack). Doesn't feel different in any way, as far as speed is concerned. I have maxed out RAM to 8 GB and installed an SSD two years ago. Even with filevault encryption turned on, I find it perfectly usable for mail, text processing, internet, occasional photoshopping and media organization and consumption (handbrake encodings do take their time, but that's not Sierra-specific).
Runs fine on late 2009 mb white ub w/ 4gb, SSD (samsung 840 evo, if you're wondering...) Might be my imagination, but feel just a tad more responsive that el cap.
Typing this on Sierra on 2010 13" MBA. In truth, 4gb is not enough to do any real work on this computer as it swaps very quickly.
Hi,
I have same configuration than you.
Can you please say me if you suggest to update it or not?
many thanks,
Installed on 2010 mac mini,8GB Ram and 1TB HDD. So far no problems.
Also installed on 2011 Macbook Pro 13" with 8GB Ram and 240gb SSD.
Also installed on 2011 Macbook Pro 13" with 8GB Ram and 240gb SSD.
This is the computer I keep bleeding edge so I've been running Sierra on it for a good few months. My experience is that half a dozen tabs open for long duration leads to swapping. E.g. gmail. There's also a big memory leak in softwareupdated process. Apart from memory being low, I don't see anything else of concern so I'm happy to be running Sierra. I'm typing this on it now. FWIW, I tried SL last week and it feels pedestrian compared to Sierra.
Retina or no? I'm curious about how Metal advancements have helped system fluidity.
Well, since I have 4GB of RAM on a MBAir from 2011 with:
- 7 Chrome tabs;
- Spotify open;
- iTunes open;
- Endnote open;
- world, excel and PPT open;
- VLC open;
- whatsapp open;
- Dropbox open;
- Mail open;
- Preview open;
- Plex opened.
without turning off my Mac on the last 7 days. I have 177MB of Swap, and a green memory pressure graph. So let me call BS on your statement.
10.11.6.
Swapping less than 1GB on a SSD on regular usage is completely irrelevant for every user, too. No one notices that at all.
Am I really the only one who notices that Arabesque screen saver now stutters under Sierra, unlike El Capitan?
