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<blockquote data-quote="unblocktheplanet" data-source="post: 1904849" data-attributes="member: 410160"><p>When my wife’s 2019 MBA was AppleCare, the geniuses did a fresh install of Monterey, an ‘upgrade’ from Mojave.</p><p></p><p>She’s gotten used to it (I remember my hair-pulling going from OS 9 to OS X) but I don’t see ‘convergence’ as any sort of benefit. And I don’t really want to know the how & why of all those bells & whistles I’ll likely never use.</p><p></p><p>The reasoning behind the new Mac OSs is that the great majority of users buy a minimal Mac with a 126-, 256- or 512- (at most) GB disk. And most buy a 13-inch Mac which makes shifting screens an advantage.</p><p></p><p>That lack of local disk space means one’s files have to be stored in iCloud.</p><p></p><p>That gets me to the place to ask, is one’s data safer on one’s own disk or in the cloud?</p><p></p><p>I see no real reason to update from 10.13 but I’d like to hear other users’ reasons for any love affair with Mojave, Big Sur, Catalina & Monterey. Anybody?</p><p></p><p>There may come a time when Apple <em>forces</em> us to update. The question is, do we really need all those security ‘features’ in our personal lives?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="unblocktheplanet, post: 1904849, member: 410160"] When my wife’s 2019 MBA was AppleCare, the geniuses did a fresh install of Monterey, an ‘upgrade’ from Mojave. She’s gotten used to it (I remember my hair-pulling going from OS 9 to OS X) but I don’t see ‘convergence’ as any sort of benefit. And I don’t really want to know the how & why of all those bells & whistles I’ll likely never use. The reasoning behind the new Mac OSs is that the great majority of users buy a minimal Mac with a 126-, 256- or 512- (at most) GB disk. And most buy a 13-inch Mac which makes shifting screens an advantage. That lack of local disk space means one’s files have to be stored in iCloud. That gets me to the place to ask, is one’s data safer on one’s own disk or in the cloud? I see no real reason to update from 10.13 but I’d like to hear other users’ reasons for any love affair with Mojave, Big Sur, Catalina & Monterey. Anybody? There may come a time when Apple [I]forces[/I] us to update. The question is, do we really need all those security ‘features’ in our personal lives? [/QUOTE]
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