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Subject: [Leica] OT: upgrade to High Sierra?
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 11:34:18 -0700
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I use High Sierra and Photoshop CS6 on a Macbook with 8GB. It works fine.


On 4/5/18 10:58am, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Thanks Brian and everyone else. I see somewhat conflicting messages: 
> several people have said that one should really have 16 GB RAM to run High 
> Sierra well (or rather, do photo processing and such) but then someone 
> said that High Sierra runs fast and efficiently. Since my Macbook Air only 
> has 8 GB RAM (and it cannot be upgraded beyond that), I will just stick 
> with what I have.
>
> Thanks again for the advice!
>
> Nathan
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>> On 05 Apr 2018, at 16:46, 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.
>>
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>> 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
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>>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
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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?)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] OT: upgrade to High Sierra?)