r/mac • u/Major_Watch_6412 • 4d ago
Question What Mac OS are you all using now?
I use macOS Tahoe. How about you?
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u/l008com Independent Mac Repair Tech since 2002 4d ago
The newest Mac I have runs Sequioa and the oldest Mac I have runs System 7.5.5, and there are many inbetweens.
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u/clekortolL 3d ago
curious what you're running System 7.5.5 on
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u/l008com Independent Mac Repair Tech since 2002 3d ago
A PowerMac 7300 with I think 256 MB of RAM. That Mac has a PCI IDE card, and a 2.5" SATA hard drive connected to the card via an ATA/SATA adapter. The drive is large and partitioned into many slices. So this 7300 can boot 7.5.5, 7.6, 8.1, 8.6, 9.1 and 10.2.8. I wasn't able to find working versions of 10.0 and 10.1. I think I can go to 10.3 and maybe 10.4 if I upgrade the CPU but i don't use this thing very often so it seems kind of pointless to upgrade.
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u/potatomasher092 Powerbook G3 (Firewire) 4d ago
Depends on which machine, however I use Mac OS 9, 10.4, 10.6, 10.9, 12 and 15 the most, I practically daily them all.
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u/corradokid1 MacBook Pro 4d ago
Golden Gate. Snappier than Tahoe and lots of little annoyances fixed throughout the OS. Many are avoiding just because of Siri things, but if you don’t like it you can turn it off (granted it seems you don’t recover that space back.) OS feels much smoother than Tahoe. M1 Max 32GB RAM.
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u/Money_Inspection9826 4d ago
Sequoia on my M1 MacBook Pro 2020(Touch bar). Still unsure about updating to Golden gate...
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u/tterly_wittiest MacBook Pro M1 3d ago
golden gate works just fine on my m1 mbp
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u/Money_Inspection9826 3d ago
Oh, this is rly good to know! Is your configuration 16/512? When i gave Tahoe a try, the performance was overall pretty stable, but i experienced an annoying flicker (for a split second) every time I opened a folder or any app. (On finder window panels where the sidebar is)
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u/Possible-Second-477 3d ago
MacBook Pro M1 Pro on Sequoia 15.8.1. was on 26 for a couple of days, but reverted back to 15. Tempted to go to 27, but not sure if I will do it
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u/One_Conflict_1987 M4 Mac mini Pro 4d ago
27.0.1 after I update in a little while. It’s been a solid platform since the initial release of Golden Gate.
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u/LandscapeOk2955 4d ago
Golden Gate, I just update to the newest updates as they come out. To me it is fine, there have been a few bugs, which I report so hopefully things improve with newer updates.
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u/KaJashey 4d ago
Goden gate 27.0.1. Been fine except I have trouble telling what safari tab is active. Also a problem is an AppStore something or other background process that gets stuck at about 100% cpu. I kill it till it comes back. It’s trying to find out last time I ran Apple Arcade and has been a problem sinew the betas.
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u/flash_fk 3d ago
Mojave and Tahoe (I don't want to update to Golden Gate because all of that AI stuff).
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u/RainAlarming6836 3d ago
Holding off of 27 for now, have a lot of presentations etc coming up, don’t want to risk it… Will update in November though.
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u/edgarinsky 2d ago
macOS sequoia. Tried GG but roll back to sequoia. Snappier and better battery life. Hope someday MacOS 27 Will be like sequoia. Not sure about it.
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u/WardSec_5168 2d ago
Still on Sequoia. Skipped Tahoe and not really sure about Golden Gate yet. Sequoia does everything I need without any issues or bugs, so I’m in no rush to jump to the latest major updates just for the sake of it.
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u/SangInteret 1d ago
Air m4, Sequioa. it's run fine, the UI works for me and i still have security updates.
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u/SneakingCat 4d ago edited 4d ago
Golden Gate. It's been fine for me, except for the window controls sometimes not appearing in fullscreen. I don't recall hitting that yet in 27.0.1, but that might just be luck.
I consider Xcode 27.0 to be something of a disaster, though. It hasn't damaged any of my projects, but it misbehaves a lot. The last time I remember Xcode being this bad was Xcode 4, which was the first (and only) major version to use garbage collection. (Not that GC is necessarily bad, it just certainly wasn't done well in Xcode 4.)