I sure hope the NAS vendors (Synology, QNAP, WD MyCloud) update their OS for Time Machine. Has anyone tried them with the betas?
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High Sierra ready for prime time?
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I sure hope the NAS vendors (Synology, QNAP, WD MyCloud) update their OS for Time Machine. Has anyone tried them with the betas?
I’ve been running all our mission critical servers since beta 1 so yes it’s prime time for the layman.
Definitely working fine for me. Clean install with Beta 9, non-encrypted boot. Everything works fine - Xcode, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, MS Office, Parallels, Kindle, Spotify, Chrome, Anaconda (Sci Python install), etc., etc. Glad I did it.
As was pointed out to me, can you please update the following page wherever you can:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-high-sierra-10-13-works-does-not-work-thread.2048660/
Thank you.
When is the GM due to be released, same time as iOS? (which many speculate ~20th-ish)
If it's only a week or 2 I think I'll wait. I have a mid-2012 rMBP, manufactured Dec. 2012.
Def. be reading all of this thread in the morn, way too late now though... TY/BR.
If it's only a week or 2 I think I'll wait. I have a mid-2012 rMBP, manufactured Dec. 2012.
Def. be reading all of this thread in the morn, way too late now though... TY/BR.
We don't know, but that's what I'm predicting. We'll need High Sierra to read the iOS 11 file formats, since they are not compatible with Sierra.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-be-released-when-ios-11-is-released.2065305/
Any chance they'll release an update to Sierra so those who don't get High Sierra can still see the iOS 11 file formats? I plan to upgrade my devices, but not my Mac - at least not until a few months have passed and all APFS bugs have been squashed.
My experience is that betas and the .0 release of every Mac OS I've used have been problematic. Four apps I use regularly were DOA with the beta, one was fixed with a later beta, two have required upgrades (one paid), and the fourth will continue to be dead because the developer closed shop. There may be problems I haven't uncovered and are unlikely to be fixed in Aperture which I still use heavily. I've got a lot of Macs. Here are their standings for the upgrade:
- 2010 11" MBA, this was my trial system for High Sierra and APFS. It was so slow as to be useless. Backed out and don't plan to upgrade.
- 2011 15" MBP. Has SSD. Will upgrade as soon as I'm assured SuperDuper!, CrashPlan, Resilio Sync, and ChronoSync work with APFS, and I can use FileVault II (bad reports on encrypted drives with APFS).
- 2014 27" Retina 5k iMac. This will get the .1 High Sierra. Has a Fusion Drive so no APFS.
- 2011 27" iMac. Wife's system. Will get .1 High Sierra.
- 2012 mac Mini running Server. I always run this one year behind, so doing Sierra upgrade now.
- 2 - 2009 mac Minis. These won't run anything beyond El Capitan
- 2012 mac Mini used as entertainment center. Will get .1 High Sierra
Probably not. No such Sierra beta has been released.
What Mac do you have? You may be able to install High Sierra just using HFS+, depending on the Mac. And if so, you could always convert to APFS later.
2009 MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo: Works fine with HS with HFS+ on an SSD, although the CPU is slow. (I used a hacked installer to get HS on it.) However, as a test machine it had 4 GB, and I just recently upgraded that to 8 GB. It would be completely unusable with 2 GB like some of the MBAs of your era.
2010 iMac Core i7: Works fine with HS with HFS+, although it's has a HD so disk access is slow, but that's true on older OSes too.
Probably. However, it may be possible to clone another HFS+ install to use on that, but I'm not sure.
Dunno about flawlessly but it seems to be working as well as it did on Sierra.
Despite working fine, I just did a "check for updates" and 15.38 is now installing.
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I've only used the latest public beta High Sierra on my 2016 nTB for like all of an hour in the past few days but seems smooth in general. which is always a good thing. works with the handful of 3rd party apps I rely on too, which is also good.
it seems way better than Sierra was for a .0 at least, took a few point releases to stop being buggy and annoying OS.
The boot up time with apple logo is considerably longer though for some reason..
and more importantly I haven't booted in high Sierra for a bit from my Sierra partition, because I noticed almost ZERO difference coming from 10.12?
What are peoples favorite things with this release? Because Im at a loss, for what I'm gaining that I'll actually use?
it seems way better than Sierra was for a .0 at least, took a few point releases to stop being buggy and annoying OS.
The boot up time with apple logo is considerably longer though for some reason..
and more importantly I haven't booted in high Sierra for a bit from my Sierra partition, because I noticed almost ZERO difference coming from 10.12?
What are peoples favorite things with this release? Because Im at a loss, for what I'm gaining that I'll actually use?
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Agreed.
HEVC and HEIF support
APFS for some people
Safari autoplay blocking (but I'm guessing Sierra will get this)
Metal 2 if you find Mission Control stutters in Sierra
The betas worked fine on my 2017 MacBook. I’ll be upgrading to HS right after the official release.
It’s been working well for me with the exception of encryption and Filevault issues that have already been noted. Straight APFS works well. I would like to turn on Filevault at some point, but I’m definitely avoiding it for now. I have read release notes for most of the betas and there continues to be a ton of references to APFS encrypted and Filevault. Somewhat of a confirmation that it’s not ready.
My 2017 m3 runs at about the same speed as a 2016 m5.
However, the 2017 gains hardware 10-bit 4K HEVC decode support. It's still compatible on the 2016 models, but for this one task it's much, much, much slower since it's done in software.
