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Re: DP Users should hold off on High Sierra

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 7:20 am
by waxman
Thanks Phil and Mike. Are there benefits to HS over Sierra?

Re: DP Users should hold off on High Sierra

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:19 am
by mikehalloran
waxman wrote: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.

Re: DP Users should hold off on High Sierra

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:57 am
by 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.

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

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:16 pm
by 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.

Re: DP Users should hold off on High Sierra

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:54 am
by Rick Cornish
James Steele wrote: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.