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Re:AppStore Preferences can be unlocked by a local admin wit... by FabHK on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @02:17PM (#16117967)
Wasn't High Sierra supposed to be the same? Lots of improvements under the hood, few if any visible new features?
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Re:AppStore Preferences can be unlocked by a local admin wit... by knolan on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @03:11PM (#16118556)
High Sierra was lots of new changes under tho hood whereas Snow Leopard was lots of improvements to existing stuff.

High Sierra switches solid state drives to the new APFS file system and the WindowServer is now rewritten to use Metal2.

So I would suggest that High Sierra is far from a stability release like Snow Leopard was. It was about ripping out the foundations and building new ones. The APFS transition, to Apple’s credit has been mostly painless while the WindowServer changes has been hit miss depending on your hardware.

These were things Apple had to do and they benefit all their platforms.

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