Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet?

Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by Roboprog on Sunday February 02, 2020 @04:39PM (#22219637)

Sadly, my 2011 MacBook Pro won’t update to these later versions, so I just have to leave it running for months at a time.

Perhaps when the keyboard fails, someday, I’ll replace it, instead of just upgrading the RAM and drive.

Kidding aside, I would like to get a newer version someday with better screen resolution and size, but Apple seems to have many missteps to recover from the last 5 years or so.

I’m assuming an implied “/s” at the end of your comment.

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Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by gimboland on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:53AM (#22223074)

FYI, You can replace the keyboard on a 2011 MBP; I've done it. Fiddly but not especially difficult. The 3rd party keyboard I replaced it with isn't as good as the original (in particular the backlight is very leaky) but it's not bad and gave the machine a new lease of life...

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Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by hanniabu on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:40AM (#22221957)

I also have a 2011 and still running El Capitan because I was concerned about how it would handle updates. What version are you running right now and how much RAM do you have?

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Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by cglong on Monday February 03, 2020 @02:54AM (#22222271)

I have a 2011 iMac that's running High Sierra (its last supported release). I upgraded it from its base 4GB to 20GB of RAM.

Since getting High Sierra, everything's been really smooth, but the Sierra -> High Sierra upgrade actually bricked my computer. It was perpetually stuck in the installation phase, bailing after 45 minutes because it couldn't unmount my partition. To Apple's credit though, after I used recovery mode to reinstall the OS, everything worked and my data was intact.

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