macOS 10.13 High Sierra: The Ars Technica review

This is a detailed review, definitely a solid place to start learning about macOS High Sierra.

Before you update, you might want to read the section on APFS, the Apple File System called A one-way ticket to APFS-ville (if you have an SSD).

The High Sierra installer does do one major thing that the Sierra installer didn’t do. Behind the scenes, it converts your boot partition from the longstanding HFS+ filesystem to the new APFS.

Well, it does that for most Macs, anyway.

Though most people will never even know what’s happening, there are plenty of caveats and details to know about how the APFS conversion happens, the cases when it doesn’t happen, and why it doesn’t happen when it doesn’t happen.

Read this section, consider your Mac’s particular configuration. Do you have a spinning hard drive? Do you have an SSD that you installed yourself? Do you have a Fusion drive setup? None of these are dealbreakers, but it’s worth spending the time to read about these cases before you do the upgrade.



4 thoughts on “macOS 10.13 High Sierra: The Ars Technica review”

  1. Did this upgrade on my second computer, a 2014 MacBook Pro with SSD this morning. Seems fine. Disk utility says APFS is running so whatever happened, happened behind the scenes without bumps. I let the whole thing sit for a while to let Spotlight reindex the SSD and now it seems to be working fine. No big tests yet and I must say, on first glance Photos is not what I’d hoped it would be (sigh, I was hoping to maybe dump Lightroom, now not so sure). Time will tell.

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