My MacBook Pro simply runs circles around the little MacBook, and Sierra didn’t do anything to change that. I have also spent time with Sierra on an Early 2015, 12-inch MacBook with Retina display running on a 1.2 GHz processor and 8 GB of RAM. About This Reviewįor this review, I spent about a month running macOS Sierra on my main system, a Mid 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display with a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 and 16 GB of RAM.

Console and System Information have both seen big upgrades this year, but more on that in a bit. The Utilities folder is full of familiar icons, as well:ĭisk Utility uses the same somewhat confusing user interface Apple introduced last year. The list of bundled applications that come with a clean install remains unchanged: Handoff, Instant Hotspot, Mac-to-iOS AirDrop, Apple Pay, Metal and Universal Clipboard are supported by these models:Īuto Unlock with Apple Watch is supported by Mac models introduced starting in January 2013, and requires two-factor authentication on your Apple ID. The days of unchanged system requirements for new versions of macOS have come to an end. System Requirements & Bundled Applications The Mac is a stable platform that is still growing, but at a much slower rate than Apple’s front-and-center operating system, iOS.īut it’s September, so there’s a new release to look at: macOS Sierra.

OS X Yosemite brought a new design to the Mac, but past that, most users can’t tell the difference between it and El Capitan, let alone what was new in Mountain Lion or Mavericks.Īs I’ve written before, I think the lack of excitement in big macOS releases is mostly okay. Over the past several years, Mac OS X macOS releases have gotten smaller and less exciting.

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