does Catalina slow down the MacBook Pro Mid 2012 model?
can I upgrade to Catalina OS from High Sierra? If I do does it slow down my Macbook pro Mid 2012 ?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13
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- Make sure the system has AT LEAST 8GB OF RAM. 4GB would be just utterly painful.
- Look through the list of Applications in your “About this Mac” menu, then click on “System Profiler” and look for “Applications”. The last column should read 64-Bit (intel). Any Application in that column with a NO will NOT function in macOS Catalina, which will force you to upgrade the application or stay on High Sierra to allow you to continue to use the Application.
- I would STRONGLY URGE you to upgrade the internal hard drive to a sufficiently large SSD. You’d want larger than what you have currently in the system if at all possible, or consider finding a way to move documents, Desktop Folder and the like up to iCloud or Google Drive, depending on the availability of storage.