Despite the daily nag messages, I still haven't "upgraded" to High Sierra yet because I've heard nothing but bad things about it from friends and coworkers. What does it bring to the table besides headaches?
Safari has some new things (global and per-site reader view, disabling autoplay, privacy enhancements) but that doesn’t really count since it also works on Sierra.
I honestly don’t see what all the complaints are about, but I might just be lucky.
Both were updated at the same time. I keep my work laptop (another rMBP) on Sierra and I might just skip updating that one altogether.
I'm not saying 10.13 has been perfectly reliable, but it doesn't seem less reliable than previous versions to me.
I'm running 10.13.2 on a 2014 MBP, and can say the same -- as praise, not complaint. I want my desktop OS not to break stuff more than I want it to add new features, and 10.13 mostly succeeds in not annoying me by breaking stuff.
I’ve even run a test which supports this - downloaded 35gb of files, deleted them and emptied the trash. Same thing... space is missing till I reboot.
I also have this problem in Sierra. If my Time Machine HDD is not connected, it stores the backups locally.
I can only reclaim space if I disable the Time Machine and restart my mac.
> In macOS High Sierra, Time Machine stores snapshots on every APFS-formatted, all-flash storage device in your Mac or directly connected to your Mac.
I'm curious how it's implemented? Does it use whole-filesystem snapshots? Some discussion: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/81171
Not sure, however, that APFS is the reason of slowdown, maybe other filesystems are slow too in this version. FS cache, however, still works, and after warmup system becomes fairly responsive (on 16 Gb of RAM).
$ df -k /; dd if=<(yes) of=$HOME/bigfile bs=1024 count=$((35 * 1024000)); df -k /; rm ~/bigfile; df -k /
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1 976265452 360477544 612444948 38% 1399186 9223372036853376621 0% /
35840000+0 records in
35840000+0 records out
36700160000 bytes transferred in 1038.398720 secs (35343033 bytes/sec)
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1 976265452 396346588 576575904 41% 1399343 9223372036853376464 0% /
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1 976265452 360497876 612424616 38% 1399342 9223372036853376465 0% /for this reason i do only on-demand backups when i connect my external backup drive.
another worrying thing is that the time machine backup drives still use HFS+ because APFS does not support directory hard links. so now i am backing up APFS files to HFS+ "bit perfectly".
You probably already know just how excited I was to hear they will combine Mac OS and IOS into one OS. I can't wait for all the new bu..err.. features we'll be getting!!
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How's Linux doing with battery life on a laptop these days? I think my 2014 MacBook may be my last.
I get about 10 hours of battery life on Fedora 27. Not too bad at all.
I'm about to ditch apple and was thinking to get either a Dell or a ThinkPad.
8th gen i7s. Up to 64Gb ram. Or if battery matters, 8th gen i7u with same performance as 7th gen 7700, and 32Gb ram.
Three year warranties available.
My battery life is around 10-12 hours (watching video drops to about 6-7 hours) I did the following out of the box:
- Use the Intel graphics exclusively
- TLP
- Powertop adjustments
I also have the screen set at a low pretty brightness level as I find the 9550 screen pretty bright (too bright) at mid-high levels.
SPECS:
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Ubuntu 17.10
Dell 9550 XPS
i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
non-4K screen (doing this will really save your battery)
16GB RAM
Intel® HD Graphics 530 + NVidia
512GB SSD
We've warned every other engineer not to apply the high sierra OS update until further notice.
We have 20-30 engineers all running the exact same hardware spec as engineer #1. So, it's sufficient evidence for us.
That said, most of the benefits aren't visible so unless you use Safari or an app which depends on Metal 2, etc. there's no massive reason to jump.
We use Acronis Connect (formerly ExtremeZIP) for AFP connectivity at present, but that only helps with the missing files problem. It's still painfully slow.
SMB on 10.13.2 is blazingly fast, almost as fast as Windows, and the missing files/folders problem is gone.
As for reasons to upgrade, there's nothing particularly exciting, but things are just a little better. A lot of nice stuff in Safari, though at least most of it is available in Sierra as well, and I'm not actually sure offhand what (if any) requires High Sierra. HIEF support for photos so they take less space. Also better editing of photos in Photos, including the ability to muck about with live photos (e.g. looping them, bouncing them, etc), which is fun. Notes has some good stuff, such as tables, pinned notes, and sharing with other people (which I've made heavy use of lately). And so on.
I've just given up on having a computer sleep and wake up properly, especially a laptop, like I've given up on ever seeing reliable bluetooth on the same laptop (can't even play when the speaker is literally touching the laptop without dropouts; phone has no problems). I assume that laptops with reliable sleep is something we might see again in 2020 and beyond (2007 mbpro had it). On the other hand, I know for a fact I will not see reliable bluetooth connections in my lifetime or maybe ever, so compared to that, there's still hope.
When I get to work in the morning I just expect that I'll be rebooting this PoS as soon as I open it.
I returned it and went with a Thinkpad instead. On all my Windows laptops, sleep's never been a problem. Even on the cheap machines.
If anything, it solved some Sierra headaches.
The next iPhone is always going to be the one that ends Apple, the new OS always shows that Apple finally lost its way.
You’re better off ignoring that drivel and making up your own mind.
10.13 is terrible for people who use FileVault, in multiple ways:
1) If you upgraded to 10.13.0 your password is being leaked in the password hint.
2) APFS + FileVault performance is abysmal compared to APFS without Filevault or HFS + FileVault or HFS without FileVault.