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So I updated to Big Sur on the 8GB 2016 12″ MacBook to test the final public release performance and whilst it does run a bit faster than the beta I’d not recommend it. It looks fantastic but there is a lot of lag in the experience on this little machine and I’ll be revertingContinue reading “Can you run macOS Big Sur on the 12” MacBook?”

Source: Apple Big Sur launches to the public today, here’s the Apple page on what’s new. Personally I’d hold off for the next patch before installing and if you have 8GB RAM I’d carefully consider giving it a miss for now. I’m testing it again on a 12″ MacBook and it’s not that great inContinue reading “What’s new in Big Sur?”

I’m currently running with two different MAC setups in our house a late 2015 5k iMac and a 2016 MacBook, both have 8GB RAM. I’ve also been doing a lot with photos lately and been running into memory limitations and slow performance using the app to manage a large library (>30,000 photos). This already hadContinue reading “Can you run macOS Big Sur with 8GB RAM?”

Matt’s done an amazing job here with recreating the macOS wallpapers using MS Flight Simulator. Check it out.

I’ve been testing Big Sur on my 2016 MacBook 12″ (8GB Ram, 1.1 M3) for a month or so now and even though I know it’s a beta I don’t think performance is going to get much better on this model. At this point I can’t recommend upgrading to Big Sur if you are runningContinue reading “Should you upgrade to macOS Big Sur on a MacBook 12”?”

I’m probably writing something that a lot of Mac users will know but coming from an iPad the Music app on macOS needs a lot of work. I’ve been using it for a week or so and wow is it clunky and buggy in my experience. As you can see above I’ve done a searchContinue reading “Apple Music on macOS needs some work”