sonoma

Anyone updated to it yet? I am hanging on for a while, as I have heard of some problems with external hard drives using non-Apple file systems. Apart from the drive in the dock, all my external drives use Ex-fat. Not really anything in Sonoma that is of interest anyway.
I will update to it at some point, but not yet, maybe in a few months, like next year

Hi,

Well, I waited until OpenCorePatcher 1.0.0 came out yesterday, and updated my 2013 iMac (4GB Force GTX) to Sonoma.

Success, and I am extremely happy to report that the 'zig-zag' graphics artefacts that have plagued every OC Patched release since BigSur have now been fixed (on the GeForce GPU's). I will yell if there are any issues, but so far.... Perfection

I will however wait a bit (a week or two) before I take the plunge with my main (2018) Mac Mini for the same reasons of caution as you

Regards,

Steve

I always try an install on a separate partition before upgrading. I haven't upgraded to Ventura yet as it didn't play well with my Intel Mini.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Not really anything in Sonoma that is of interest anyway.

Same here. At the moment I'm thinking that Sonoma might be one of those OS's that I skip, but we'll see.

I've updated a couple of machines, variously M1 and M2 based. All OK so far. Some bugs I had in previous Safari versions seems to have been zapped in Safari 17.0

Sure... Why not...

Nothing broke...

Like the new screen saver/ desktop...

I use my mac to do stuff not to just tinker with, so as nothing broke I'm happy.

A

In contrast to the names of earlier Mac OS's, I'd never even heard of Sonoma so I looked it up.

Going by its Wiki entry it seems to be a pleasant enough but unremarkable sort of place with nothing to particularly commend it or otherwise... I wonder if Apple are trying to tell us something

In reply to a post by billford:

In contrast to the names of earlier Mac OS's, I'd never even heard of Sonoma so I looked it up.

Not into California wine then Bill? Me neither, but I visited the San Fran area in 1999 and you can't miss the tours to both Sonoma or Nappa valleys.

macOS 14 as its also known follows on from Apple's change to being the iPhone/iPad company, where instead of 3 or 4 years between rather major releases of operating system, Apple ship an update every year with a new version.... its a bit silly these days. Even Microsoft doesn't pretend you need a new version every year.

I am still surprised that Apple requires a new OS (iPhone or mac) to get new browser and other built in apps like Mail. That now seems so backwards as both Google and Microsoft can update from the store at anytime.

Edited by jchamier (Tue 03-Oct-23 15:00:35)

Not really any more obscure than Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, or Ventura. Just another moderately well-known part of California. They probably all mean more to Californians.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

I am still surprised that Apple requires a new OS (iPhone or mac) to get new browser and other built in apps like Mail. That now seems so backwards as both Google and Microsoft can update from the store at anytime.

Maybe I'm cynical, but as they don't undertake to maintain more than the current and last 2 OS's, it also means they don't have to provide updates to an OS for so long

Edited by billford (Tue 03-Oct-23 16:55:40)