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Our IT dept just sent us an email NOT to upgrade if OS asks. Wonder if the holdout is the new filesystem or something else?

by dreen 9y ago

masklinn 9y ago
I have not seen anything bad about the new FS, I have heard everything bad from the OS itself. I had held off of Sierra because it felt half-baked and hoped High Sierra to be a Snow Leopard/Mountain Lion/Cap, but it's really not looking good. It does not help that I have one of the "dead dGPU" 2010 series, and with every new release I dread more and more that gfx won't be able to lock the system in "integrated only" mode.
- StephenMelon 9y ago
  Never had random reboots or graphical artifacts on screen before on OSX but my iMac has been very unstable since the High Sierra update. I’m lucky I’m not using that machine for work or I would be raging on a daily basis. I’m not an “Apple are doomed”-er but this is the poorest Apple OS release since the black screen of death that plagued iOS8. You seem to generally get about 3 years of use from an iOS device before the CPU can’t really keep up with the OS updates. I couldn’t recommend upgrading an iPhone 6 to iOS 11 as my wife’s 6 Plus has basically become unusable. Maybe part of the problem is that no-one in Cupertino will be using a 3-4 year old iPhone or a 2012 Mac on a daily basis?
brazzledazzle 9y ago
Some of your Enterprise apps (like antivirus) might have compatibility issues or straight up don't have an update available. Even these days it seems like these Enterprise developers don't start development on updates until after the major macOS update has been released to the public.
ridgeguy 9y ago
There is a problem with some third-party SSDs on certain Macs during High Sierra installation, apparently during conversion to APFS. [1] Maybe that's one concern? [1] https://blog.macsales.com/42466-a-note-on-high-sierra-compatibility-with-third-party-ssds https://blog.macsales.com/42466-a-note-on-high-sierra-compat...

Our IT dept just sent us an email NOT to upgrade if OS asks. Wonder if the holdout is the new filesystem or something else?

by dreen 9y ago

Our IT dept just sent us an email NOT to upgrade if OS asks. Wonder if the holdout is the new filesystem or something else?

masklinn 9y ago

I have not seen anything bad about the new FS, I have heard everything bad from the OS itself. I had held off of Sierra because it felt half-baked and hoped High Sierra to be a Snow Leopard/Mountain Lion/Cap, but it's really not looking good. It does not help that I have one of the "dead dGPU" 2010 series, and with every new release I dread more and more that gfx won't be able to lock the system in "integrated only" mode.

StephenMelon 9y ago
Never had random reboots or graphical artifacts on screen before on OSX but my iMac has been very unstable since the High Sierra update. I’m lucky I’m not using that machine for work or I would be raging on a daily basis. I’m not an “Apple are doomed”-er but this is the poorest Apple OS release since the black screen of death that plagued iOS8. You seem to generally get about 3 years of use from an iOS device before the CPU can’t really keep up with the OS updates. I couldn’t recommend upgrading an iPhone 6 to iOS 11 as my wife’s 6 Plus has basically become unusable. Maybe part of the problem is that no-one in Cupertino will be using a 3-4 year old iPhone or a 2012 Mac on a daily basis?

brazzledazzle 9y ago

Some of your Enterprise apps (like antivirus) might have compatibility issues or straight up don't have an update available. Even these days it seems like these Enterprise developers don't start development on updates until after the major macOS update has been released to the public.

ridgeguy 9y ago

There is a problem with some third-party SSDs on certain Macs during High Sierra installation, apparently during conversion to APFS. [1] Maybe that's one concern? [1] https://blog.macsales.com/42466-a-note-on-high-sierra-compatibility-with-third-party-ssds https://blog.macsales.com/42466-a-note-on-high-sierra-compat...