rkelleyrtp1 Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 Greetings all, Before I go through the upgrade process, I am wondering what the user community has to say about High Sierra vs Sierra. From what I have read, HS has some improvements in the baseline apps (Mail, iTunes, Siri, etc) plus the new APFS file system. To me, this is just another incremental update. However, if it provides some real-world usage performance (CPU, etc), I would be more open to upgrading. My normal day-to-day usage: iTerm, screen casting, VMWare Fusion, email. My system: Gigabyte X99-UD4 (F23 BIOS), i7-5960x, 32G RAM, 2x 1TB Samsung SSDs, 2 GTX-750Ti video cards, 2x 27" displays Thanks for any input! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorenoAv Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 I am new to hackintosh and I made the upgrade from Sierra to HS and the speed, the apfs system are advantages, this and the fact that I don't have Kernel Panics like I had in Sierra is a huge advantage, but if you decide to make the upgrade the only opinion that counts is yours, because all opinions are subjective... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maleorderbride Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 What speed increase? Historically newer OS'es run slower on the same hardware. 10.6 is still the fastest OS, obviously has little in the way of hardware support. APFS also boots slower as far as I have seen versus HFS+, but presumably it will mature. APFS does have other advantages though. Can't one use APFS in 10.12.6 though? Since HS doesn't bring any new hardware support (yet), I can't say it offers any concrete advantages. As newer Mac models come out and bring more vanilla support to new hardware then that will be an advantage. Oh, 10.13 brings Vega to the table, right? I guess there is that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltooz_audis Posted October 26, 2017 Share Posted October 26, 2017 High Sierra vs Sierra? VMware 7x won't work, I had to use Vbox. Fixed all the problems with Sierra on my Haswell HD4400. Now I can use it without any problems - Solidly - Love the new macOS High Sierra. Besides VMware 7.xx, everything works flawlessly. Many nice new features. It's definitely better than the Sierra IMO. Cheers, Louis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HBP Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Sierra had Metal V1 for video access layer, High Sierra has Metal V2. besides having to work out several emulation bugs (changing my SMBIOS to an iMac15,1 from a 14,2 and updating my SSDT/DSDT files) there have been very little differences between the two. if you are using it as a graphics platform go with High Sierra, if you are Ising it as a general machine and don't want to go through the headache of making it closer to a 'Real Mac' go with Sierra. HBP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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