I'm still on my 2018-2019 Mac mini with 1T SSD and 32G RAM. Running the latest OS on it. No problems. IMO: With Apple machines, you should always keep macOS and iOS/iPadOS up to date ... I've been doing that since 1984, through the gods only know how many different machines, and it's never bitten me. It's time to upgrade to an M chip, likely early next year. Would like a new iPad Pro 11" as well. G -- Godfrey DiGiorgi - godfreydigiorgi@me.com >> On Oct 20, 2024, at 12:26 PM, David J Brooks <pentkon52@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey all, I have a current iMac running Sonoma with m3 chip, I’m not big on >> upgrading os’s but just wondering if many of the Mac people have moved to >> 15 and if so was it a smooth transition? >> I’m on several Mac Facebook sites and some reports no issues and some say >> it bricked their Mac, >> I know Facebook is not a great resource so I’m asking the group, which is a >> great resource >> Dave

I have read that since it is optimized for the M chips, the latest MacOS will actually reduce performance on Intel based macs. I haven't seen any quantification of how much, and if it depends on the machine. I could easily see how with all of the memory on chip, the newer systems could gain a lot of performance caching more data in the main memory rather than in the cache closest to the processor. On 2024-10-22 11:18, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > I'm still on my 2018-2019 Mac mini with 1T SSD and 32G RAM. Running > the latest OS on it. No problems. IMO: With Apple machines, you should > always keep macOS and iOS/iPadOS up to date ... I've been doing that > since 1984, through the gods only know how many different machines, > and it's never bitten me. > > It's time to upgrade to an M chip, likely early next year. Would like > a new iPad Pro 11" as well. > > G > -- > Godfrey DiGiorgi - godfreydigiorgi@me.com > >>> On Oct 20, 2024, at 12:26 PM, David J Brooks <pentkon52@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> Hey all, I have a current iMac running Sonoma with m3 chip, I’m not >>> big on >>> upgrading os’s but just wondering if many of the Mac people have >>> moved to >>> 15 and if so was it a smooth transition? >>> I’m on several Mac Facebook sites and some reports no issues and some >>> say >>> it bricked their Mac, >>> I know Facebook is not a great resource so I’m asking the group, >>> which is a >>> great resource >>> Dave > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.