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What about performance on older machines? My mid-2010 MBP is still supported, but I'm afraid of switching if performance takes a hit. It has dual 512GB SSDs and 8GB RAM, so it runs Sierra with more or less success, but it's usable.

With all this filesystem level changes, does High Sierra have more hardware requirements than Sierra?

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I have installed 10.13 on a mid-2009 macbook pro using the installer patcher hack. It works quite fine, I did not notice any difference with Sierra. I have a single 256MB SSD and 8GB RAM. On a side note, I did not get the APFS update, I assume this is because it is a third party SSD.

UI wise it should make more efficient use of your MBP's GPU, thanks to Metal 2, but on the other hand that efficiency may be negated again by more visual effects. Things like blur (which cost performance) can be disabled in accessibility settings though.

Not for 2010 models: https://www.apple.com/macos/how-to-upgrade/#hardware-require...

___> ' Metal 2 Supported by the following Mac models: MacBook (Early 2015 or newer) MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 or newer) MacBook Air (Mid 2012 or newer) Mac mini (Late 2012 or newer) iMac (Late 2012 or newer) Mac Pro (Late 2013) '

So my good old quad core i7 Mac mini is still cutting-edge, nice!

Metal isn’t supported on a MacBook Pro that old. I think it requires MBP 2012-2013 or so. My late 2011 MBP doesn’t support it.

Same hardware requirements as Sierra: https://www.apple.com/macos/how-to-upgrade/#hardware-require...

Installed on a 2012 non-retina 13” mbp, everyhing feels faster (probably no benchmark gains, but much less UI latency, faster app switching etc.). Thankful, I don’t need anyhing more from the update :).

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