2013 iMac Stable with OCLP Monterey not so much with Sequoia

Just messing around with my old iMac to see what is possible.

• Upgraded to macOS Monterey and I found it remarkably stable
  • Did some profiling with Geekbench 6, scores here
  • Naturally these results are abysmal by todays standards
• Made the leap to macOS Sequoia and found that things were flakey all over the place
  • Lots of lag, even with simple tasks like opening TextEdit
  • Profiled with Geekbench 6, scores here
  • Interesting that single core scores are better with Sequoia, but multicore scores are worse

Config here, yes this machine is very underpowered

• Processor: 2.7 GHz Quad Intel Core i5
• Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
• Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

My recommendation: If you have an old Mac this "under-speced", I would recommend a fresh install of Catalina. But if you must upgrade, do no more that Monterey.