Thanks for the answer, to Chris too. When catalena was relrased there were a flurry of ‘don’t rush’ type posts. I was checking if ‘dont rush to catelena’ was still the general opinion. I have not yet even received my macbook (tomorrow :-) so it is that new. From an engineering point of view it makes sense to limit the os but is still um irritating James
> On 24 Feb 2020, at 1:10 am, Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote: > > Given that you have an OS installed, just try to install whatever you > need and if you run into any serious issues, ask about specific > problems. > > (It might be true what Chris said and that you won't be able to go > back in time, not sure when the hardware was released, so maybe 10.14 > still works, but if you have 10.15 installed, try to check if you see > any problems first. The OS has been around for a while, so most > pressing problems were solved in the meantime. You won't be able to > build or run 32-bit software though.) > > Mojca > > On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 14:14, James Linder <j...@tigger.ws> wrote: >> >> Hi All >> >> After 6 years my macbook battery is really past it’s use-by. >> The keyboard has become a sea of >> won’t-push-this-week-and-hard-to-get-a-keypush so I decided to get a new >> laptop, but of course it comes with catalena. >> I’ve been using high sierra and all my ports are good. Is catalena now >> stable enough to ‘just work’ or need I consider installing (say) high sierra. >> >> James >>