DP Users should hold off on High Sierra (9/18/17)

[waxman]

Thanks Phil and Mike. Are there benefits to HS over Sierra?

[mikehalloran]

Thanks Phil and Mike. Are there benefits to HS over Sierra?

A few, yes. According to Andrew on the FB page, DP 9.52 runs better and I agree.

DP aside, there is the Snapshots feature that lets you restore your entire system in minutes if you really screw something up — as I did when I upgraded to 10.13.4 with a USB monitor (oops!). This only works with SSDs formatted APFS.
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If using any 3rd party monitor solution except eGPU over Thunderbolt 3, upgrade to 10.13.3 and no further. This includes eGPU over TB 1 & 2, USB through a DisplayLink Box (me) and any of those apps that let you use an iPad as an additional monitor. A USB-C or TB/Mini DVI to HDMI adapter is fine — those are just pin adapters and you are still using your Mac's GPU.

[James Steele]

Just a reminder... this topic was originally opened quite some time ago... September of 2017... I think I'll append the date of the original post to the topic header.

[bdr]

So I upgraded to HS from El Capitan, and then proceeded to spend 6-8 hours trying to get my Mac to boot again. (yes, I had a backup but even getting access to that was funky).

Needless to say, I'm back on El Capitan. I guess I could try a clean install on a spare drive, its only for a couple of pieces of software that won't sync anymore on El Cap.

[Rick Cornish]

Just a reminder... this topic was originally opened quite some time ago... September of 2017... I think I'll append the date of the original post to the topic header.

Thanks, James. I'm thinking about going from Sierra to HS and have been reading through a lot of these posts.