Daggilarr Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Hi, is there any major benefit in upgrading past Mojave on my machine? (Spec in sig) I have resisted so far, but maybe it’s time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryx Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Hi, I think there are quite a few benefits. First of all you'd get the latest Logic Pro with all the amazing features that came out since 10.4. Also from a security standpoint I'd seriously recommend to upgrade at least to Catalina since Mojave doesn't get any security updates and has some publicly known exploits. Though the severity might differ based on what you do with your iMac (like "browsing the web" vs. "music production") and if it is connected to the Internet at all. I run MacOS Big Sur on an older machine than yours and never encountered any problems. Big Sur is also really mature meanwhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryx Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Sorry, I wasn't correct regarding the update situation of Mac OS Mojave. Mojave still receives updates until the next major version of Mac OS comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgreenblue Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Sorry, I wasn't correct regarding the update situation of Mac OS Mojave. Mojave still receives updates until the next major version of Mac OS comes out. You were correct the first time, Mojave is now more of a risk due to the lack of security updates, Catalina is still getting them. The other compelling reason is that more and more software may become incompatible due to the policy of supporting the current OS and one previous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musos Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Bear in mind that any 32-bit apps you have/use will no longer work if you move past Mojave. Check that all your plugins will be compatible with a 64-bit OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggilarr Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Bear in mind that any 32-bit apps you have/use will no longer work if you move past Mojave.Check that all your plugins will be compatible with a 64-bit OS. Is there a straight-forward way to ascertain what is 32 bit only? Or is one by one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gacki Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 There's an app called "Go64" that checks all applications for 64 bit compatibility. Not sure what is best to check plugins, though. System profiler doesn't seem to give information whether plugins are 32 bit or 64 bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musos Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 I should have said that you should check if your plugins are compatible with the OS you are upgrading to. With your current setup, the plugins you are running currently should all be 64-bit. And yes, Go64 is excellent for checking your applications: https://www.stclairsoft.com/Go64/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 That's always a dilemma. Note that you could run both systems for a while to make sure you're 100% happy before ditching the old one. Here's my recent answer on a similar topic: Re: Updating OS from Catalina to Monterey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewdman42 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 I am almost universally a late adopter of MacOS versions. I feel like Apple usually breaks more stuff then they add, nearly every version...some versions are worse then others. That being said, I did find Catalina to be more performant then Mojave and liked it very very much. I have recently moved to Monterey and I am liking it also. Sooner or later you'll want to get to the latest version, i feel BigSur was a good one to skip personally. I did lose some software with Catalina and again with Monterey due to non-compatibility. That is probably the biggest reason i tend to avoid upgrading until years later...because I don't want to give up software I am using. Catalina lost 32bit apps, and I did lose a couple apps, though it turned out that life went on and I adapted. Monterey did lose one of my favorite apps (TotalSpaces) which I am still groaning over every day I use my mac...but I guess I will have to move on from that too because next year Catalina will stop getting security updates also... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewdman42 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 ps - as others already said, if you want the latest version of LogicPro..you gotta get pretty up to date with MacOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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