![]() I run OSX High Sierra myself, but I am lucky in as much as my oldest mac is a late 2012 and is capable of running OSX 10.14 Mojave, so I CAN go that far if I wish to. SO even if you COULD use Catalina you may have to replace a LOT of old apps if you did. Until Big Sur comes out and changes everything - that will be a massive change I am told.Įven the current (some say problematic) OSX 10.15 Catalina with its "only 64 bit application support" is rather restricting to those (like me) who have older precious 32 bit software that may have been orphaned (development ceased) by developers in the rush to keep up with market needs / wants. To the best of my memory, it certainly did not remain compatible with later Windows updates for anywhere near 10 years.Īpple support two OS versions older than the current one (Catalina), so High Sierra is still supported for security updates etc. I dont know Windows well, but I do know that my old HP laptop was orphaned my Microsoft years ago when it's hardware drivers (hardware drivers are a world of pain unknown to we mac users) ceased to be available for the later versions of Windows. To be fair, in the world of computing a 2010 machine is pretty old and has lasted well past its intended life. Tried and tested stable systems are worth a lot in a working environment. It's a bad strategy, mind because moving a small business to MS Office will cost less than replacing a few Macs stuck on High Sierra.Many very high end pro mac users preserve "mothball" a stable system and applications and stop updating it.įor many professionals, computer work is all about stability and reliability - not the access to the very latest additions added to software in latest updates. What Apple has done by prematurely ending update support for High Sierra with their iApps (and also making them not backward compatible with their documents), is an attempt to force the need for new Macs upon workplaces that have a workflow based in Pages, Numbers and Keynote, since older Macs in the mix can no longer be homogenous with application versions, or even open the documents from a Mojave or later Mac on the same network, once said later Mac first auto updates the apps. ![]() It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that since the advent of Mojave, Apple is trying desperately to get out from under the weight of the 2010-11 Radeon Macs by making them as inhospitable to use as possible. High Sierra is supposed to be supported by Apple for another year that means that Apple's own apps should support High Sierra for at least another year. The Mac App Store has tons of third-party word processing applications for very little money, and as I posted above, the LibreOffice Suite is a free Office solution of applications. Microsoft now requires macOS High Sierra as the minimum operating system to install current Mac Office versions - because Microsoft is now tracking Apple's customary three-year sliding window of. Staying as current as your hardware permits with both operating system and Apple's Mac App Store applications is still important to obtaining applications. There is no hidden agenda going on to get you to purchase a new Mac. Occasionally, Apple will make the next operating system a requirement for installing Pages/Numbers/Keynote as those versions take advantage of features only found in that operating system, and to make those applications compatible with it. Same story for all other Apple applications not installed by the operating system. 2013, Apple has only kept the current released version of Pages, Numbers, or Keynote in the Mac App Store. ![]()
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