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IIRC you can choose HFS+ during installation. It's easy to overlook that though IIRC. Fusion drives and spinning "platter" drives present the HFS+ option SSDs do not present that option. At this point Fusion drive owners should choose HFS+.
 

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And spinning platter users can go either way?
 

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And spinning platter users can go either way?

No, if you have a HDD you can only choose HFS+, APFS will not be available to choose. Conversely, you have a SSD your only choice will be APFS. There is a terminal work around to format a SSD to HFS+ for High Sierra but it is not recommended.
 

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I'm pretty sure that they can but this article from last December suggests that you may not want to. I ran APFS for several months but I don't think I tested it on a traditional spinning drive.

Edit: There's still a lot of confusion out there about APFS. I think some aspects of the implementation have been "tightened up" over the last year so this may be a case of needing to know which specific version of High Sierra is installed.

Think I will be jumping on Mojave as soon as the public beta opens up.
 
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Sly are you part of the beta testing program?
 
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Remember this was an in place upgrade from Sierra to High Sierra, so I didn't get a choice about drive system as the partition already existed. I assume it is HFS+
 

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Sly are you part of the beta testing program?
I've been doing the piblic betas. Started that right after they started the public beta program. I'm not a programmer but figered a general user's prospective might be good. The fact that I get to test the cool new features had nothing at all to do with it. lol
 

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Ha ha, yes, well I enrolled in the beta testing program a while back and never saw a reason to change back. I do occasionally use the feedback app but have not had much reason to for a while. So like yourself I'm usually one update ahead.
 

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Don't know if I'll do the public beta for Mojave. I normally do my public beta testing on a separate bootable external hard drive. But since the drive will have to be formatted to APFS first, I'm wondering if the installation will do the formatting or will I have to do it separately? If I was going to install the beta on my iMac's drive, there would be no problem with APFS but I don't want to run beta software on my only production machine.
 
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So the macOS has gone from peak to peak, but now it is just a desert :)
 
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Ha ha ha, yes it seems so. Glad you didn't say wasteland.
 

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C'mon guys... You need to take a close look at a map of Southern California and properly identify what you call the Mojave Desert. Having lived there for several years, you would be surprised at the number of cities and towns that are located in the great Mojave. It's also not a lowland desert as deserts go (like Death Valley which is below sea level) but it's a high desert. The place where I lived was 3000' (914.4 meters) above sea level. Great weather: Hot in the day, cool at night.

Hey, it could have been a lot worse. Apple could have named the next version of macOS "Sequoia". LOL.
 
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I'm actually ready for them to get rid of the names, and only use version numbers. Much easier to identify.
 
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Nah - Windows does that :)
 
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C'mon guys... You need to take a close look at a map of Southern California and properly identify what you call the Mojave Desert.


Actually I ended up driving through the Mojave Desert many years ago on my way to Scottsdale Arizona from the Vancouver/Seattle area and it was the most incredible trip and intense florescent colored flowers everywhere.

Apparently it had experienced some unusual rains some weeks before and I guess that brought out the flowers and flowering cactus. It was just beautiful I must say and not expected at all. But it was also hot as H*ll!!!

PS: I was having to drive a Pinto station wagon at the time and no A/C of course. I ended up with blisters on my left arm that was exposed to the sun and wind of the open window. :|




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