MacOS High Sierra refines the features that you use every day—and brings new technologies to make your Mac ready for future innovation. Get the upgrade Learn how to back up your Mac, then get macOS High Sierra from the Mac App Store.

• Apple File System • Improved Siri, Photos, Safari, Notes, Mail, etc. • Better graphics capabilities with Metal 2 • New standard for videos: H.265/HEVC The biggest improvement to the Mac is probably the Apple File System (APFS). Apple designed this to replace the aging HFS+ system. APFS is optimized for flash memory and solid-state storage.

All modern Macs come with solid-state drives, (SSD) and they are a major improvement to the old spinning disc drives (HDD). Apple also brought APFS to iPhones and iPads with the release of iOS 10.3. With APFS, you can clone the operating system. This lets you create copies of files on the same drive without using additional storage. You can create of the system. This lets you copy the system at a particular point in time. APFS offers better crash protection and avoids metadata corruption.

And APFS natively supports, as well as file encryption with multiple options. Older Macs A has multiple people sharing the old Macs improved by High Sierra.

These include: • 2009 iMac • 2010 iMac • 2010 Mac Mini • 2011 MacBook Pro • 2012 MacBook Air • 2012 MacBook Pro If you have an older Mac lying around, it may be worth it to upgrade to macOS High Sierra. However, there is a caveat: The first version of High Sierra is designed for Macs with all-flash built-in storage. This excludes iMacs and Mac Minis that have Fusion Drives. But Apple engineer Craig Federighi says support for Fusion Drives in a future release. Update The Mac Observer reader Ned found that unsupported Mac minis updated to macOS High Sierra may lose AirPort functionality. However, in his experience, using an fixed it.

I use a late 2012 Mac mini as my main computer and its quite the work horse. Never lets me down or blinks.

I have 16GB of ram and a Samsung EVO 500GB SSD in it. So far since installing High Sierra it seems busy often with these processes running often maxing out the CPU but only for a few minutes.

I guess part is maybe spotlight setting up and finding things. My Das Keyboard Pro for Mac was acting funny, media keys not working and it even stopped letting me type on it but just unplugged it and plugged Read more ». Dear AdriftMac, Yesterday I bought a Mac Mini Late 2012 (i5 2,5Ghz, 16GB RAM, SSD Samsung EVO 512GB).

It has installed Yosemite, and I would like to update to Sierra, or High Sierra. On the App Store, it only appears High Sierra. Do you think it’s worth to make an Update? Will it become more slower? Which options do I have? I only have my fotos on iCloud, and I don’t use any external storage.