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Subject: [Leica] OT: upgrade to High Sierra?
From: dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com (Dennis Kushner)
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 11:46:17 -0400
References: <ED9DE871-49C9-410C-AA54-688FF702C1B3@frozenlight.eu> <02116422-1b34-e6d7-fd52-1bcc63ef2a49@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

I have a 27 iMac from 11/10 with i3 chip & was advised by Apple
that my using Sierra was the last I could upgrade to. OS upgrades
eventually end at some point. Will have to get latest computer to
take advantage of High Sierra & later upgrades.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
wrote:

> One problem with not upgrading is that you can't avoid upgrading forever.
> And multi-level upgrades are more difficult and more annoying.
>
> In a few days I'm going to get on an airplane and fly to Maine (where my
> mother lives) to upgrade her computer from Mountain Lion to High Sierra.
> It's too complex for her to do herself. One great advantage to us from her
> running High Sierra is that I will be able to screen-share with her via
> Messages, so if I'm in California and she has a problem in Maine, we can
> get on the phone and do a screen-share and figure it out.
>
>
> On 4/4/18 10:22 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
>> I am currently running OSX Yosemite on my Mac laptop, and everything is
>> fine. From time to time, Apple encourages me to upgrade to High Sierra.
>> While the upgrade is free, I have until now ignored it based on ?if it
>> ain?t broke, don?t fix it?. But am I missing out on some great new 
>> features
>> or performance improvement?
>>
>> I would like to hear from people who have experience with this upgrade.
>> My laptop is a reasonably modern Macbook Air with 8 GB RAM.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
>>
>
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Replies: Reply from robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron) ([Leica] OT: upgrade to High Sierra?)
In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] OT: upgrade to High Sierra?)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] OT: upgrade to High Sierra?)