<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; ">Thank you very much for your thoughts. The computer is a 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro, and it’s intel based wich makes me want to hold to it for as long as I can. I’m dreading the day I have to upgrade. Not upgraiding is now impacting daily tasks. It has so much stuff installed and working, so many workarounds around other workarounds. It will take ages to rebuild all of that. Some of the newer versions of the bioinformatics tools I use seem to be less reliable, at least on my workstation which runs Ubuntu. I still use iWeb to run website for students, and I know it can be done in another way, but at the moment it takes me just a couple of minuets to update the info for them. I used to uprade one OS behind current, waiting for stuff to settle. It wold have been easier to clone hard drive and keep it as a working copy in case everything falls apart, but it’s soldered in, so I’ll have to rely on time machine and hope everything goes well. </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; "><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ; ">Thank you. </div> <br> <div class="gmail_signature"></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On 29 September 2024 at 12:27:42, Fabien Auréjac (<a href="mailto:fabien.aurejac@gmail.com">fabien.aurejac@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>
<p><font size="2">Added to what said Richard,</font></p>
<p><font size="2">you can also with <a href="https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/">OpenCore
Legacy Patcher</a> upgrade to some OS that is not officially
supported by your computer, in the case it's an old mac.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">Provided the computer is strong enough to handle
the new OS, it may give a better lifetime...</font></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 29/09/2024 à 03:34, Richard L.
Hamilton a écrit :<br>
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<div class="">The newest your hardware can handle, unless you have
apps that require 32-bit support (for which Mojave is the last
OS version that has it) or that for some other reason will break
in a newer OS. Don't be more than two or three behind (I think
it's really years, somewhere in the 3 to 5 range) if you want at
least security updates. (don't expect much other updates for OS
versions near the old end of what still gets security updates)</div>
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<div class="">Exception: if you want less problems with MacPorts
and don't want to be part of solving problems much, wait a few
months on Sequoia; don't go later than Sonoma yet. The first few
months of any new OS major version can have more pain for apps
and software from anywhere, esp. open source software with lots
of dependencies and mostly or totally unpaid volunteer support.</div>
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<div class="">For software that is neither MacPorts nor Mac App
Store, <a href="https://roaringapps.com/apps" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://roaringapps.com/apps</a> may
provide some indication (if someone has reported! there are
plenty of unknowns) whether listed apps will work on a given OS
version. There may be other such sites, but that's the one I
know about.</div>
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<div class="">On Sep 28, 2024, at 21:13, Masha Vecherkovskaya
<<a href="mailto:mashavecher@gmail.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">mashavecher@gmail.com</a>>
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<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">I’ve been putting off upgading from Mojave for as
long as I could. But it seems inevitable at some near
point. Which OS would you reccomend? </div>
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