Your experience - Macbook Air 2018 woth Sonoma or stay on Ventura?

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Your experience - Macbook Air 2018 woth Sonoma or stay on Ventura?

After some user experience please ...

I have a refurb 2018 Macbook Air Retina - with clean install with macOS Ventura.

The software upgrade has the option for Sonoma.

After actual user experience - is it worth upgrading to Sononma or is this machine too slow or underpowered, and better to keep Ventura? (concerned it may be laggy and want to avoid that)

(I am not conncecting non-Apple peripherals so drivers etc is not my concern)

Thanks

MacBook Air (2018 – 2020)

Posted on Feb 28, 2024 2:22 AM

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Owl-53

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Feb 28, 2024 2:44 AM in response to larrens

I did have a New 2018 MBA with 500 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM

As clean as clean can be

Worked fine for light usages

You no doubt know that Sonoma could the last version of macOS this computer may qualify to run

If in doubt that Sonoma will work too your needs

Have a 3-2-1 Rescue Plan in place and up to date

3 backups using 2 methods and 1 off site incase of natural or un-natural disaster

Always make a Time Machine Backup before doing any upGrades

Use Time Machine on your Mac to back up to multiple disks

https://bombich.com/

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Owl-53

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Feb 28, 2024 3:31 AM in response to larrens

Welcome

Just be sure there is at least 50 GB of Empty Space on the drive.

It will allow the Full Version ( about 12.xx GB ) to download, then expand and then commence to install.

If there is Third Party Security Software installed - remove it.

It will interfere with both the download and installation process.

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larrens Author

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Feb 28, 2024 3:25 AM in response to Owl-53

Thanks for your thoughts - my son is using it for school. Nothing to CPU intensive.

Will do the upgrade then.

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