Some background first:
The main reason I want to install higher Mac OS is for Line the messaging APP, which is deprecated in Catalina, the highest possible OS Apple support on the machine. It has 4+2GB ram and MX500 500 GB SSD, but I upgrade ram to 8+8GB after knowing I will upgrade the OS.
I did consider upgrading to Ventura, seen that it may be more performance and a safe step, but thinking some APP will be deprecated again a year later, I choose upgrading to Sequoia nevertheless.
Now some thoughts:
- The install process is easy, thank you developer!
- It does took lots of time on the first boot, but after that, won't recognize significant difference except the below points:
It did get some hiccups after the first installation, but with revert root patch -> reboot -> install root patch -> All OK.
The boot up is significantly slower than Catalina.
- I mean the usable state. Catalina took about 1 min, Sequoia took 1 minutes to login screen, and 4 more minutes after 100% CPU usage.
- some daemon runs in the background took the resource, at this stage, checking anything is choppy, I'd recommend open only the Process Viewer and wait until CPU usage is not 100% anymore.
- I mean the usable state. Catalina took about 1 min, Sequoia took 1 minutes to login screen, and 4 more minutes after 100% CPU usage.
Everything in System Settings takes 5 seconds to load
- I mean yeah... but the customize process is almost a one-time thing, so once getting through it, you won’t have to deal with the slow load times that often.
The web browsing with Firefox: I can't tell the difference (Good!)
- playing 1080p60 video is still decent
And some suggestion:
- disable all widgets
- I found out that it took a lot of resource running in background
- check the Reduce motion in system settings
- Avoid using animated backgrounds or on login pages.
I'd say it's an overall win after some tweaking. It's not fast anymore, but extending its lifespan always feels good.
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