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OS - Mojave/High Sierra

Hello all,


I got MBP late 2013 and I was not updating it for a longer time due to use of professional applications which made it pain. I am spending some time to service this computer and I would like to upgrade to Mojave or High Sierra.

Can somebody please share the performance impact of this OS on the computer itself?

Can somebody please share the way how to upgrade - I can only upgrade to Catalina, but I can not use this software, because of work I have on this computer. I can not ditch x32 applications I have.


Thank you in advance.


Best,

T

PS: I have Slovakia as AppStore location.


MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Jun 13, 2020 5:22 PM

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Posted on Jun 14, 2020 1:29 AM

Mojave and High Sierra are both available in the App Store.


Open your Safari browser, Firefox will not work.

Click on the links below.


How to upgrade to macOS High Sierra - Apple Support


How to upgrade to macOS Mojave - Apple Support


go to Section 4 and click on Get macOS *******


This will redirect you to the App Store High Sierra or Mojave download page.

The page should say Get or Download.



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Jun 14, 2020 1:29 AM in response to em-tx

Mojave and High Sierra are both available in the App Store.


Open your Safari browser, Firefox will not work.

Click on the links below.


How to upgrade to macOS High Sierra - Apple Support


How to upgrade to macOS Mojave - Apple Support


go to Section 4 and click on Get macOS *******


This will redirect you to the App Store High Sierra or Mojave download page.

The page should say Get or Download.



Jun 13, 2020 6:19 PM in response to em-tx

There are many different configurations for each Mac model, even for a particular model year. Everyone's needs are different and uniquely suited to their own purposes. For those reasons it is not possible for anyone to describe or characterize or even surmise how any particular macOS version will work for you.


Please read Upgrading macOS without fear - Apple Community. That's what I do and what I recommend.

Jun 13, 2020 6:46 PM in response to John Galt

Hi John,


hhmmm. That sound like there would be loads of different configurations of Macs, which does not seem to be so reading a tech specs of the hardware. I believe there been only 2 models with 2 variants each and effective changes between MBP of 13-14 have not been significant.


Mojave & High Sierra are not available in AppStore/iTunes. I know that support pages - they are pure waist of time.


Generally speaking with new soft either they are more effective or they drain more of the resources. The needs or usages of computers are not changing with upgrade of OS. They tend to stay pretty much the same and either there is generally positive or negative impact or maybe no impact. Or impact in some areas. That kind of sharing, I believe, might be helpful.


Thank you for your guide. On my Mac are theater shows, using a specific sensors working with specific applications and software. There is no x64 options, so unless you would like to send me couple of thousand € for remaking everything once again, your answer is useless.


I have to use computers professionally and I have to use Mac. I am no fan boy of the Mac thing and Apple is also famous for liquidating usefulness of older models by overburdening them with new OS.


So I am sorry John, but I found your reply pretty condescending. I do not need to read how I should not be afraid to instal brand new x64 OS with low tolerance to another software on 6 years old laptop.

Jun 14, 2020 4:10 AM in response to em-tx

If you have a spinning hard disk drive (HDD), Mojave will be slower than High Sierra.

Starting with Mojave, all speed optimizations related to spinning hard drives were essentially removed as Apple moves to SSDs.

A Fusion drive works fine, but if you have only an HDD with 8GB of RAM, it would be slow.


Apple doesn't write an OS for 6 year old laptops. They write an OS to support the hardware they are currently selling. The OS that was designed for your particular Mac was the one that shipped with it.

OS - Mojave/High Sierra

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