My 2p Until just recently I was running Sierra on my Mid-2011 iMac i5 with HDD and have now moved to a 2015 macBook Pro i5 with SSD and 10.12.4
The iMac took ages to get to login from restart and launches of apps could take a while but apps that were running seemed to nip along pretty fast. My MBP is faster at pretty much everything except scrolling. I had 12GB RAM in the iMac but only(!) 8GB in the MBP. The MBP will stutter and stop sometimes and then scroll, but mostly it’s fine although that never happened on the iMac. I don’t know if that helps or muddies the waters … Stephen "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will!" - John Atkinson > On 18 May 2017, at 19:22, mac98aop <adampym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Friends > > I fear I've bothered you with this back in the days of Yosemite... > > I'm still on Mavericks, as my Mac works so brilliantly (albeit I heeded Sam's > counsel - we all should - and put installed a 256GB SSD to make it run like > new). There is no lag or spinning wheels - it is a brilliant workhorse and > nearly 7 years old. No complaints. > > I installed Yosemite and found it laggy, fan always whirring, and gave up. > > But my most favourite app Things (the best of GTD software that I've tried > www.culturedcode.com) has just released v3 and the features are tempting - > but it's 10.11 or higher. > > -Do I dare update to Sierra?! > -Has anyone else done it on this age/spec of hardware (2 spec screenshots > attached)? > -If I do, are there some gripes I just need to accept? > -If it starts laggy and loud fans, does it settle down (I heard that it > might?) > > I'd prefer the smooth and reliable Mavericks over a laggy Sierra and can't > justify new hardware, yet! > > Any experience and advice, gratefully received. > > Thanks in advance, > > Adam > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to smug@googlegroups.com > <mailto:smug@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > <Screen Shot 2017-05-18 at 19.14.49.png><Screen Shot 2017-05-18 at > 19.15.05.png> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
