![]() ![]() I counted my barebones Sierra installation, after I disabled all the features I don't need from the System Preferences I noticed from Activity monitor that the related processes are still running in the background (about 20-25 background processes/ deamons). While Mavericks had some beneficial changes (compressed memory, Safari improvements) I'm very annoyed that Apple currently includes new features that cannot be fully disabled (Siri, iCloud drive, Photos etc.). I think Snow Leopard was the golden era of OS X, many features added afterwards are not beneficial for my needs. I'm glad those features are beneficial for you. I'm glad that I didn't have to wait 18-24 months after El Capitan to get these features. iCloud Drive improvements in Sierra makes it sooooo much more of a viable cloud storage option than before. I use Picture in Picture quite a bit more than I expected to and occasionally ask Siri what NBA games are on tonight. I feel the argument for and against annual updates pretty much evenly, but I'd probably lean a little closer to having annual release. If we turn back to clock to the 90s, Apple actually encounter similar issues. Microsoft couldn't develop a new OS in a timely fashion and left their current operating system to stagnate. Microsoft encounter countless issues when developing Vista and delayed the release numerous times, which lead XP to be the latest release for approximately 5 years. My thoughts as to why Apple switched to this model is so that they can avoid a whole "Vista situation". Certainly this works on phones relatively well but on the Mac, its still a relatively new concept. Annual updates allow Apple to continuous add feature (even though its usually no more than a handful) every year while constantly tweaking the OS, at the risk of stability. The advantages of the latter seem much more appealing on the surface: one major release to focus on for at least 18 months-2 years to squash bugs & improve stability, etc. There's certainly advantages and disadvantages to both approaches: annual updates and major updates every few years. If so, whatever it is, it makes them run GREAT, keep those kinds of infections coming, please! Maybe there is something on my Macs, invisible, that I can't see. It ran fine for all that time, and even though I now keep it in its original box, it will still boot up just fine. I just retired a 2010 MacBook Pro that I kept on OS 10.6.8 for almost 7 years. I've NEVER had a trojan, or related kind of attack. I've NEVER had a virus infection of ANY kind, ever. I have used "Disinfectant" on the Classic Mac OS, and I use MalwareBytes Anti-Malware for Mac now.īut it's not stuff that "continuously scans". Some folks require older versions of the OS so that they can continue to use older software. I don't particularly care about "security", so I don't update until I'm actually -in need of- updating. ![]() Almost all security fixes are made for both the current and the last version, but not all of them." ![]()
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