I find systems painfully, almost unusably, slow without an SSD. I have retrofit them into almost every system I have (including a Beige G3 tower running MacOS 9.2.2).
K > On Nov 14, 2017, at 6:24 AM, William H. Magill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Nov 14, 2017, at 8:31 AM, pagani laurent via macports-users >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Maybe I am misled by a hidden problem but when I moved from Lion to Sierra >> for similar reasons (browsers not maintained anymore for 10.7, etc.) I >> experienced a strong slow down of my machine (MBP, 8 Gb Ram, hard drive). I >> recovered speed when it died and I moved to a more recent machine with 16Gb >> and a SSD. So I would cautiously upgrade to Mavericks or Yosemite and stop >> there if enough in your case. >> >> LP > > There is a massive amount of conversion work done in the background when you > first upgrade to Sierra or High Sierra. > Allowing the system to chug along for about 24 hours (depending on your disk > size) gets rid of the sluggishness. > > There is a “notification” which pops up warning you of this when you first > login after the upgrade, but it is quickly dismissed and forgotten about. :) > > > T.T.F.N. > William H. Magill > # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.13.1 > # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.13.1 > # MacPro5,1 Quad-Core Intel Xeon [2.8 GHz - 16 GB 1066 MHz] OSX 10.13.1 > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > > > > > > > >
