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FOR APPLE USERS

Cats3000 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:20:07 GMT

Mac OS Tahoe is here. Will try to download and install it later today.

Be aware.

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gadgetgal613 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:33:03 GMT

I'm glad I have two Apple computers, desktop and laptop, and I test it out on one before I do them both.

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I am still oxox — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:57:34 GMT

Thanks will update latr this afternoon

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tl98466 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:03:55 GMT

Updated iPhone and MacBook Air - LOVING iOS 26 already! Still learning some of the new "tricks", but I like to look! Nice update...so far!

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Cats3000 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:25:50 GMT

I have a Mac Air with the M2 chip. I can offer without equivocation that Tahoe is the worst piece of garbage I've ever used. I've had more problems using it than any of the previous system upgrades I've had. It freezes, it gives me garbled pages, it gives me pages and listings that I didn't ask for. By no stretch of the imagination was it "ready for prime time". It is just awful. I'll make it do until they come up with fixes, but be aware.

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Mz iMac — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:14:39 GMT

@Cats3000 wrote:
I have a Mac Air with the M2 chip. I can offer without equivocation that Tahoe is the worst piece of garbage I've ever used.

@Cats3000 That is the worse review of an OS upgrade I've read since Catilina.

My iMac can no longer be OS upgraded. However, Apple is still updating Ventura.

Remind me again why I NEVER upgraade an OS till version 3 rolls out...

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Cats3000 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:07:49 GMT

@Mz iMac I've always updated/upgraded early. I've never had the problems I'm having with Tahoe. Maybe it's me or my skill sets. I have no idea.

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gardenman — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:48:15 GMT

In theory, Apple OS upgrades should be relatively painless as Apple controls all the hardware in their computers. It's not like in the Windows world, where there are literally billions of possible hardware combinations. Still, despite that, Apple somehow manages to need a few revisions after release to fix things.

Modern operating systems have grown so complex with millions of lines of code that no one person can oversee or even understand everything that goes on.

At most, Apple might have a thousand versions of their computers out there in the real world. Of those, probably a few hundred versions (at most) are "current" and upgradeable. It shouldn't be hard for them to test their OS upgrades on every applicable Apple product.

On the Windows side, forget it. There's no way to test any Windows OS update on every applicable system. So many CPU, motherboard, BIOS, and hardware combinations are possible on the Windows side of things that it would take decades to test a new OS on every possible option.

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Mz iMac — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:44:27 GMT

@Cats3000 Your symptoms sounds like you may have uncompatible 3rd party apps messing w/the upgrade.

Go to the RoaringApps website to check the compatibility of your 3rd party applications. You may need to update or upgrade a few.

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bargainsgirl — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:40:53 GMT

Great, Just got a brand new MacBook Air in May with Sequoia 15.6.1. What happens if I don't upgrade? 4 months old??? WOW.

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Mz iMac — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:24:32 GMT

@bargainsgirl Nothing really. Once your 3rd party apps start giving you trouble and/or you are unable to download an app because your current OS is outdated, then it's time to upgrade to a new OS or update your current OS.

I am currently typing on a 2008 MBP using the last version of Snow Leopard X10.6.8. I still have the disc. I can still use all their apps which are easier to use than the latest Apple apps.

Personally, I believe Snow Leopard is the fastest OS Apple ever designed. I do not want to mess up a good thing on an antique comp.

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gardenman — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:45:41 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
@bargainsgirl Nothing really. Once your 3rd party apps start giving you trouble and/or you are unable to download an app because your current OS is outdated, then it's time to upgrade to a new OS or update your current OS.

I am currently typing on a 2008 MBP using the last version of Snow Leopard X10.6.8. I still have the disc. I can still use all their apps which are easier to use than the latest Apple apps.
Personally, I believe Snow Leopard is the fastest OS Apple ever designed. I do not want to mess up a good thing on an antique comp.

Modern OS's are huge in comparison to older ones. Snow Leopard was about a 4GB download. Sequioa is about 14-16 GBs. Computer hardware keeps getting faster and faster, but programmers then make their programs bigger, wiping out the speed gained from the newer hardware.

My first desktop PC in 1984 had a 100 MHz Pentium CPU and a whopping 1.2 GB hard drive. "You'll never use all 1.2 GB of hard drive." That PC came with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 both pre-installed, and I then added Windows 95, and still had tons of storage space left over. That was pretty much as good as a computer could get at the time.

If you could take an old operating system like Windows 95 and run it on modern hardware, it would be so fast it would blow your mind. "It knows what I want to do before I do!" Hardware keeps getting faster and faster, but software keeps getting more and more bloated absorbing those speed increases.

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ritasNo1Fan — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:37:16 GMT

That darn IOS26 download disconnected my Tracfone account. A message popped up and said I should go to the nearest Genius Bar for additional help, so, I no longer have cell phone availability, only land line. I think I could transfer sim card back into the original Samsung Tracfone from hsn and give up on the Apple.